Snowboarding

I am in Verbier learning to snowboard. If I land hard on my arse one more time I may lose my sense of humour.

Heading to Verbier

Just a few minutes more preparation time and then I am heading off to Switzerland with 40 students for a ski trip.

Ladakh Camp 1

I thought I would post this Panorama of our first camp in Ladakh back in July, at the southern end of the Spiti Valley. The interactive version is here: http://www.hobnail.com/20090731LadakhCamp1/20090731LadakhCamp1.html

Thai House

I have been going to Thai House for years as it is by far my favourite Thai restaurant in Al Khobar. Recently they have been renovating and you would hardly recognise the old place.

Staff Student Football Match

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Originally uploaded by nick_hardcastle

http://www.dhahranbritish.com/Galeries0809/FootballStaffStudent/index.html

Naharat By Nawal al-Ajmi

Artwork by Nawal al-Ajmi exhibited at Desert Designs, al Khobar

I photographed Saudi artist Nawal Al-AJmi’s exhibition at Desert Designs this week. The gallery is well worth a visit. You can get a taste here.

Ladakh, Chapter 7

Another installment of my Ladakh Journal: Chapter 7

Saturday banking

We had the day off today. No special reason, just one if those days that we scarred around the callender to give people a break. It was great. It meant that I could go to the bank, exchange money, pay in a cheque and send money back to England all in less than 45 minutes. Normally it would be ambitious to expect to achieve so many jobs in anything less than two days in Saudi Arabia. For a start the banks close at 4 pm and we don’t get out of work until 3.30, so strictly speaking going to the bank isn’t very practical at all.

Making soundslides

In the last two days I have been going through my journal and photographs from the trip I made to Ladakh in 2005. I want to complete the SoumdSlides series that I started three years ago.

Going through it now I realize that I wasn’t thinking of telling a story in this way at the time. I don’t have enough photos at certain points if I had been thinking of the story I would have taken them. I was very much thinking in single images.

The other thing tfat strikes me is the brevity of my journal. I was spending quite a while writing everyday but there was so much that I left out. At least now when I read it the details come back. Maybe not all of them but a surprising amount.

I have the day off tomorrow and am going to take the opportunity to go to the bank. Hopefully it should be quiet.

Moving back

I have decided to move my blog back to wordpress as it is easier to host there than keep updating the many files on my own server.

My recent posts have been about Ladakh. I have been looking over my journal from 2005 and producing SoundSlides. I can see lots of room for improvement but, here they are.

http://www.hobnail.com/Ladakh09/Ladakh_Ch5/index.html
http://www.hobnail.com/Ladakh09/Zangskar-Chumik/index.html