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Just because I can! 🙂
(yes, I accessed a remote computer & then used that one to remotely access the one I was currently using – thought TeamViewer would block me out but it didn’t!)
Month: August 2013
Another great sunset!
Last Sunday I just had time to dash out of the door, armed with my tripod and camera, to capture this beautiful sunset.
The weather here might be temperamental, but the skies are gorgeous!
Seasons…
Same place, same bike – but completely different surroundings!
How it was in March 2013:
And now (August 2013):
Which reminds me that the cold season is fast approaching… 🙁
My two vehicles!
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My means of transportation around Kent (and beyond!). Car was washed this morning, but the weather turned nastier when I wanted to take care of the bike! :/ It is the great British summer indeed…
Weather rant (yet another one…)
In my phone’s home screen I have two weather forecasts: one for Porto, and one for Canterbury. Can you tell which is which?
Interestingly enough, the two forecasts were basically swapped during the time I was in Portugal! I think someone in the Higher Authority (or whatever it is, chaos…) does not like me very much!
I found it!
In a very posh area of Cambridge, where else? 🙂
This wall map of Europe…
(which I got from Lidl, of course!)
… is all very well, but the railway line depicted here (going all the way to Bragança) has been deactivated for almost 20 years now!
The final nail in the coffin of the Tua line will be given when the new Tua dam is completed and an important stretch of the now closed line will go under water.
Hello there, and welcome to my personal web page/blog!
My name is Manuel Marques, and I’m a lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kent (United Kingdom). I am also a researcher in the Applied Optics Group at the same institution. My work lies mostly in the area of Applied Optics, namely white light interferometry and its two/three-dimensional variant, optical coherence tomography.
Outside work I'm a keen runner/sculler/rower/cyclist, and I do enjoy being in the outdoors (photographing them is a bonus, too!). Other hobbies include tinkering with things, both big and small (not always with a positive outcome, I must say), travelling, reading, in no specific order.
