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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

wood β€” day 9 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

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Currently reading: Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed With the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Second Place by Rachel Cusk πŸ“š

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travel β€” day 8 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

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Heraklion International Airport β€œNikos Kazantzakis”

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Kato Gouves Beach. πŸ“

Capturing the sunset πŸŒ…

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πŸ”Ž Zoom in

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Tonight’s retsina - Mihalis Georgiadis. From the label the winery appears to be based in Chalkidiki/Thessaloniki and has been in business since the 1940s 🍷

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πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Wine |

Currently reading: Second Place by Rachel Cusk πŸ“š

A female narrator, M, invites a famous painter, L, to use her guesthouse on the English coast marshlands where she lives with her family. It is inspired by Mabel Dodge Luhan’s 1932 memoir Lorenzo in Taos, about the writer D. H. Lawrence’s early 1920s sojourn in Taos, New Mexico.

Wikipedia

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🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Jacques Brel (40 plays), Paul Simon (40), The Who (29), The Cure (22), The Doors (21)

πŸ“† | 🏷 Music |

We have a sea view from our balcony. Just need to zoom in a little πŸ”­πŸ˜„

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switch β€” day 7 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

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Location check in β€” Artemis Apartments, Kato Gouves, Crete πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·
πŸ—Ί Map of area

Google satellite map showing location pin

πŸ”Ž Zoom in

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contrast β€” day 6 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

Auto-generated description: Brightly lit windows illuminate a dark street at night.
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reflection β€” day 5 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

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Lord Merthyr, Aberdare Park

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nostalgia β€” day 4 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

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Feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, early 1970s. And yes, that’s me πŸ¦πŸ™‚

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Film log - watched: The Two Faces of January, 2014 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… - Letterboxd link πŸŽ₯

Film poster

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