Gallery

 

On the way to the station Grandpa with his coat over his arm

 

  



The announcement in the paper about Grandpas trip
it mentions him being given a "travelling overcoat"

 

this is a pic of the train crash just beyond Moscow, the one below is
the same.

 

                                               Announcement of the crash                                                                         

 

 

Grandpa on left and Murray at Harbin

 

Grandpa and Gimson at Chang Chun

 

 

Grandpa at Shanghai Railway station

 

The veranda at Ravenscourt "The Club"

Grandpa and his friends relaxing

 

This is where they played tennis and met up when they first arrived

 

Shanghai Races. Pic taken by Grandpa soon after he arrive in May 1913

 

Chinese evening at Jolly Jacks

                               At Southampton Station 20/4/2013 Ellie, Tone, Me, Emily, Miche and Ed in front

At Bristol Parkway for coffee with Bridget and Ted 20?4/2013

On the way to the station Ted, Bridget, Me Tone and Marie

Ruth, Brian, Marie, Ted, Bridget and Tone and the Picnic Barry Station 20/4/12013

Ted, Tone, Tony England and Brian checking out the Bar Barry Station 20/4/2013

Aly England and Marie at the Picnic

The Clarence in Whitehall where Grandpa had supper 20/4/1913 and we had supper 20/4/2013

Sorry about this. The Manneken Pis Brussels 21/4/2013

 

Thought we had missed our turning. Hotel Barry in Brussels. We did not stay here

 

Tone and the train from Brussels to Cologne

 

I forgot about eau de Cologne! My mum used to like it!

 

Steel drums in Cologne Cathedral square

Tuesday

 

Not a train we will be using but jolly all the same. It takes people round Cologne

At the Brandenberg Gate

 

Next 6 photos taken on train on 28 April, travelling across Poland, Belarus and on to Moscow

 

 

The following pictures are from our day out in Moscow, including three of our dinner at the Cafe Pushkin

 

 

 The next fifteen pictures were posted on 6 May, and are all from our time on the Trans-Siberian railway.

 

1. With Luba

 

2. Our compartment on the Trans-Siberian

 

3. Dining car on the Trans-Siberian

4. Dachas from the train

5. A restored train on a Trans-Siberian railway station

6. Fish seller on a station

7. Food sellers at a station

8. Is this Archie's castle in from Balamory (childrens' TV programme) or a house on the shores of Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia?

9. On the beach at Lake Baikal

10. Fishing boats iced in on Lake Baikal

 

11. The town hall in Listvyanks, Lake Baikal

12. Cooking on a bbq. The samovar has a little fire down the middle to boil the water (Lake Baikal)

13. A little chapel in Listvyanka, Lake Baikal

 14. Our room at The Anastasia Hotel, Lake Baikal

15. Tea on the terrace at The Anastasia Hotel, Lake Baikal

 

The next lot of photos were posted on 11 May, having been received by email from mum! (Charlie)

 

Ice formation at Lake Baikal

Ice formation at Lake Baikal

Ice formation at Lake Baikal

Log cabin moved from original location to museum near Irkutsk

Man fishing through ice hole at Lake Baikal

Man fishing through ice hole at Lake Baikal

Sunset over Siberia

Arch over rails at Chinese border

Tone & friends in dining car on Trans Manchurian

 

Us at Harbin Station

 

Passenger Terminal Dalian Dock 1913 to April 2013

  

Passenger Terminal Dalian Docks May 2013

 

St Josephs Church Shanghai 2013

 

In Grandpas Office building May 2013

 

Palace Hotel Shangha where their wedding reception was held

 

Grandpa on the bund May 1913

 

 

Me on the bund May 2013

 

Cocktail at The Club Waldorf Astoria May 2013

 

Me at the Long Bar Waldorf Astoria May 2013

 

Me at the Church May 2013

 

Tone on the Bund with the bridge May 2013

 

Those steps up from and down to the Cruise ship on the Yangtze!!!

 

Tone and Bonny our guide after climbing 480 steps

 

The remains of a town flooded by the three gorges dam

The Red Pagoda Yangtze

 

 

Man fishing in Yangtze 

 

Into the first of the three gorges

 

 

A hanging coffin. No one knows why or how people were buried like this

 

 

 

 

Into the first lock 2am China time 21st May 2013

 

 

The lock from the bridge over the river

 

Tiananmen Square  23rd May

 

Us in front of the Forbidden City

 

Inside the Forbidden City

 

In the Hutongs in Beijing in a Rickshaw

23rd May

 

Little street in the Hutongs in Beijing

 

 

 

The cable car up to the Great Wall at Jinshanling

24th May

 

The Wall

 

Me on the Wall

 

Tone on the Wall

 

Lady leading Tai Chai in Garden of the Temple of Heaven Beijing

25th May

 

 

Temple of Heaven Beijing above and below

 

 

 

 

Terra Cotta Warriors Xian 27th May

 

 

 

Concert after dumpling banquet Xian

above and below

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Pandas at Chengdu

 

 

 

 

Quite a load!

 

This is the view of the shower from the bedroom in the hotel in Chengdu!!