Charon's activity.log

A few images of the patterns found in the nature in a much darker day than this one.

Mood pics of a sunny and hot sunday in Berlin. Use under Creative Commons as usual.

Sometimes I take the picture of the city from the hotel room window when I'm travelling. Few of such pictures follow. You can play a quick quiz and try to guess which city is on each picture. The options are: Mexico city, Hyderabad, Paris, Cairo, Rio de Janeiro and Montreal. It should not be too hard ...

I was confronted with a dilemma when I wanted to edit pages in Wikitravel guide. I found the article about my hometown Ceske Budejovice to be just an outline and started to edit it, but ... the problem quickly appeared.

On one hand it is a travel guide so naturally it should be written by somebody who is a traveller to the particular destination and not by somebody who is local. But on the other hand you know once you meet somebody local while travelling you will get from such a person more interesting places than just those most popular (or just those in travel guides)...

Hard to decide whether to edit or not. Maybe the solution could be to edit becuase of knowledge of local environment, but the travellers should comment or rate the items in the guide to express what was interesting.

Once a sign and show-case of progress and industrialization, a couple of years later just example of something outdated and destined to decay. These were factories in the Prague city center at Karlin.

Everything is impermanent. The morning dew will eventually evaporate. The flower will eventually fall to the ground. Why cling?

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First picture shows completely tiled wall in some of the temples in Kuala Lumpur. Number two are tea plantations in Cameron Highlands. Third photo is a tree bark somewhere in the jungle. And last two images show the sand on Perenthian islands.

Number one are one of the doors of Ezstergom cathedral. Number two are tiles on main square in Vac. Number three is the ceiling from gothic church in Nyirbator. And the number four is a detail of Baradla cave hall. As usual free under CreativeCommons.

Visited the small town Plasy in the west Bohemia. There is really huge cistercian monastery complex, which is not in very good condition unfortunately. But on the side it reminds of everything is perishable.

A few weeks ago I visited Vitkuv kamen and there was this sign on the way back.

Has Google entered lumbering industry?

Coming very very late, but ... I visited IETF meeting in Canada last summer. I took a short vacation after the meeting and visited the north east part of Quebec. I made a few picture of interesting details of different surfaces while travelling over there. Stones, mushrooms, water, etc. So here thay are.

Click to get full resolution picture. Feel free to download them and use them as you wish under terms of Creative commons license.

We had a recommendation to visit an unfinished D1 highway bridge over Zelivka dam from '80, so we went ...

You can find more info about it and clues how to locate it here.

Made one of regular trips to Bohemia just to go outside Prague during last longer weekend. After start of using MP3 player in my cell phone last week I decided to profit from another feature of my Sony Ericsson D750i — built-in 2 Megapixel camera.

Here are some pictures of ruins of Kosumberk castle and rock formations in forests named Toulovcovy mastale.