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winter sunset

My name is

WELCOME,BEMVINDO,BIENVENIDOS,Wilkommen
Whats in a name?
Robert,Rob,Bob.
From the old english meaning "bright flame"
Good natured,friendly and outgoing with a great sense of humour.
He has great energy.
Craig;
This name has a local Scottish origin,bieng taken for someone who lived on or near to a steep or precipitous rock.In the 15th century there were no less than three families who claimed to "be of that ilk".Early records mention "HUDDE DE CRAG"in the 1260 assize roll of Lancashire.From William the lions reign onwards,and, in the 15th and 16th century it was particularly common in the Edingburgh district.
The motto for Craig is"Virtue lives after death".
The picture was taken in mid winter
at sunset about 3-30 in the afternoon near my home in Co.Durham looking through the old winding wheel from Burnhope pit. This has been restored as a monument to the miners who lost thier lives here.

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ME December 1998 Tunisia

And about me

Having never left this land called Britain till i was 36 years of age i have now really found a new dimension to my life i just love to travel wish i had started earlier in life On 26th January I returned from the Algarve where I had been for the 8th time and my 16th time abroad in 8 years inbetween running my busy tattoo studio here in the north east of England safc4eva.
I have just moved my portugal page to the Algarve to give more local knowledge to that area also i intend to tidy up my canaryislands pages soon and work back building my newest countries first
Places that I have been
Argentina Foz do Iguacau
Brazil -Natal - Rio de janeiro Manaus - Foz do Iguassu
Cuba
Cyprus
Egypt Cairo
France Paris
Fuerteventura
Gambia
Gibraltar
Gran Canaria
Holland -Amsterdam
Italy -Rome
Lanzarote
Madeira and Porto santo.
Margarita island
Northern Ireland -Belfast
Norway -Bergen
Portugal -All over the Algarve (10 times now!)
Scotland
Spain
Tenerife
Tunisia
Turkey
Venezuela
Wales
Zante

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Iguassu falls,Brazil

Future travels

One of the problems I had when I was younger ,was that I had the time to travel but could not really afford it.
Now however I have a business here in the U.K. to run so I do not really have a great deal of travel time.Nonetheless we have just been to visit Natal,Rio and the Amazon in Brazil I am returning to Zante in August and Venezuela in September.
We have not planned anything yet for our birthdays in mid June but we are considering possibly Southern Ireland(not Dublin though),Berlin or possibly returning to Norway as this will only be a 3-4 day thing don't really want to go too far-any suggestions VT'ers bear in mind we like walking scenery wildlife and history.

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My puegeot 307

My car

Here a photo I took of my new car parked at Carter bar which is the border between Scotland and England.I know it's of no interest to anyone but it is my mainmode of transport throughout the U.K.

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Natasha and Brett in Fuerteventura

COMPUTER PROBLEMS

Sorry i have not been able to add as much information as i would have liked to over the last couple of months ,but,at the beginning of june my computer suffered a major head crash and i lost most of my work that i have done over the last 3 years on it however after much hard work (no thanks to time computers)i am now back on line and one way or another am busy reinstalling hard and software so slowly but surely i will get my pages to the way i want them

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You don't know just how good this tasted

Cheers!

A light refreshment after a long walk along the Algarve coastline