Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jayanand, I don?t know if it was precisely this beach?the city is basically strung out along the Bay of Biscay, so there are many beaches?but yes, he was from Santander, and the airport is named after him. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:35, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > The beach on which a young child called Severiano Ballestros refined his > golf game to the point of genius? > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 9:38?AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >> My last business trip before the summer break was a short visit to >> Santander in northern Spain earlier this week to participate in a >> roundtable at the Universidad Internacional Menend?z Pelayo, part of a >> week-long summer school session organised every year by the Spanish IP >> office. I flew there on Sunday evening, stayed in a hotel near the beach, >> gave my talk at the university on Monday morning and took a train back to >> Alicante around lunchtime (no flights in the afternoon, so a rather long 7 >> hour train ride was the only option to get back on Monday). So my >> sight-seeing was limited to a couple of hours on Sunday evening, and a 1 >> 1/2 km walk from my hotel to the site of the event on Monday morning. >> Still, I saw enough to conclude that Santander is a beautiful place. I >> have >> often heard people here say that the cities in northern Spain are much >> nicer than the coastal cities here in the south of the country, mainly >> because they are much less affected by mass tourism. Certainly, based on >> what I saw in Santander, this is true. >> >> A short gallery of 30 images, mostly from the area around the beach, and >> the Palacio de la Magdalena, a palace built around 100 years ago as a >> royal >> summer residence, today a conference centre and the site of the university >> summer school where I spoke. The magnificent dining room in one of the >> images towards the end is actually where the roundtable discussion took >> place. >> >> Have a look here: >> >> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Santander-July-2024 >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> photo at frozenlight.eu >> >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> >> ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information