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From The duPs Photo Album:

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Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
Hall
The edge of the moat
Easy, the dog, needs snowshoes also
From 41st Floor of Mandarin Oriental Hotel, San Francisco
One of Amsterdam's canal bridges
Over the hills and far away
The sugar bird on pincusions - Caledon
Delft Blue, David and Goliath Cafe
Parliament Hill from the north bank
Fireworks at Disney
1977 - TSA Congress at Malala - the women
Caledon Wild Flower Gardens
The ship's bell on Lake Thun
Spring in Hawkwood, near our home in Bromley
Stepping out together
Scaling the wall to get in - Carouge, Geneva
1971 - 3 Doctors
1979 - Hospital Gardens
Barrage on the Aare, Interlaken
Switzerland and Europe

Visits to Switzerland were initially at the invitation of Ruth Schoch and Esther Girsperger, to Ringgenberg, to Arosa, and to Stammheim. When The Salvation Army’s holiday home in Ringgenberg was under threat of closure, Ringgenberg’s Secret was documented; a few years later its survival was celebrated in A Song at Ringgenberg.

 

When André and Patrick moved to Geneva, that provided opportunity to explore Calvin’s city and to record some impressions and reflections in terse and even cryptic style in Dead or Alive.

 

Ambiguity, contrasts and comparisons with personal experience appear in Recreation;

 

Visits to Paris have opened understanding of French and Huguenot ancestry in Freedom in Paris.
# Article Title Date
1 Touched May 2010
2 Iglooed Together April 2010
3 Alpine Snowshoeing February 2010
4 Holiday Rhymes July 2009
5 Anne Frank Remembered April 2009
6 Another Father Christmas December 2008
7 Decline July 2008
8 The Peak June 2008
9 Schönbrunn 1918 May 2008
10 Peak Performance June 2007
11 Freedom in Paris February 2007
12 Recreation December 2006
13 Dead or Alive April 2006
14 Mesmerised July 2005
15 Astronomical Exploration June 2005
16 The Ancestors July 2004
17 The Organist July 2004
18 Rediscovery June 2003
19 Stammheim June 2003
20 Celebrating Youthfulness June 2001
21 Ringgenberg's Secret May 1998