Hoovering Up the Holy Carpet: An Artist’s Life and Travels: Volume 2: New Century Travels

This book takes us from the Millennium onwards with further artistic development and travel to more exciting places at home and across the world. Countries including the near continent, China, the Baltic, Canada and Alaska,  India, Australia and New Zealand . I hope you enjoy accompanying me on the journey.

Hoovering Up the Holy Carpet. Linda Vol 2

 

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Book information

Price £11.99 + p&p

ISBN978-1-9160106-4-2
Published: 2022
Book Type: Paperback 152 x 229 mm (270 pages)

Illustrations and images for Volume 2. 

NORTHUMBERLAND

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Rob. St Mary’s Island. Whitley Bay

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Fishing nets and St Mary’s Island, Whitley Bay

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With Joyce. Holding the Little Owl, Kielder Forest Bird of Prey Centre

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CORNWALL

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Joan Edwards in her studio, Ivy Cottage. Treen. Cornwall

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Ivy cottage studio. Joan’s paintings

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The Hat! 2001

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CHINA 2001

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Mount Hungshan

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Schoolchildren, Yueyang

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Raising the red lantern in the Heavenly Gardens of Suzhou

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Against the current on the Yangtze

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Running with current on the Yangtze

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The tea shop, Nanjing

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Connie and the toothpaste statue.

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Connie and Lilian, terracotta warriors pit, Xian

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Kite flying, Tiananmen Square.

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With June at the Great Wall

THE BALTIC

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Binz resort, Rugen Island

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Prora, Nazi Resort. Rugen Island

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Hitler’s balcony. Theatre Square, Klaipeda, Lithuania

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Harbour market, Helsinki

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Sibelius monument. Helsinki

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Stockholm

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The Vasa Museum, Stockholm

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Approaching St Petersburg

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In the smokehouse, Bornholm Island, Denmark

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Last night on board with Carol, Ilse, Marilyn and Ursula

PRAGUE

Charles Bridge, Prague

AMALFI

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Mount Vesuvius from Sorrento

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Herculaneum

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MUNICH

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Lembach Haus Munich

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The angels of Augsburg

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UKRAINE

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Kiev

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Domes for sale, Kiev

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Zaporozhian Cossacks,

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Selling the aprons, Odessa

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By the Odessa Steps

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The bucket boy!

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The veterans, Sevastopol

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Kiev chess park

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Farewell Ukraine

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ALASKA 

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Mendenhall Glacier through the cabin porthole

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Arriving at the glacier (the four seater!)

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Connie in Alaska

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Totems, Saxman, Alaska

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Hoe Down entertainment, Kamloops

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Tlingit potlach. Alaska

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CANADA

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Orca off the Gulf Islands, Vancouver

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Birth Of Man sculpture, Vancouver

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On the Rocky Mountaineer

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The Badlands Passion Play, Alberta

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Tyrrell Dinosaur Museum, Alberta Badlands Museum

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After the Naming Ceremony, Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Alberta

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Mounties display. Fort MacLoud

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Bronco busting, Calgary Stampede.

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At the Stampede, Calgary

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Edmonton, Alberta

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The Muttart Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Edmonton

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With Ellen, Karcsi and Rene at the Columbian icefields.

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Aaron, Cree artist. Alberta

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First Nation boys, at the Pow Wow, Alberta

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Dance Troupe leader , Hawrelak Park, Edmonton

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Stoney Sioux elder. At the Pow Wow, Alberta

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Drumming competition at the Enoch Pow Wow. Alberta

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AUSTRALIA 2006

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Sunset. Uluru

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At Kata Tjuta

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Connie at the School of the Air.

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Greg playing a didgeridoo, Kuranda

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Pamagirri dancers

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Tanya and her husband, with her painting, Alice Springs

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Martin. Alice Springs Reptile Centre

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Holding the snake! Alice Springs Reptile Centre

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’12’ Apostles! Great Ocean Road

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Waiting for the helicopter ride, .Great Ocean Road

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Connie with David and Helen. South Pacific art gallery in the Dandenongs, Victoria.

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Immigration Museum, Melbourne

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The clogs, Melbourne

The clogs, Melbourne

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The ‘installation’ Sydney Art Gallery

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With Avenell, Sydney Harbour

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Sydney Harbour cruise

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Cockatoos and King Parrot, Avenell’s balcony

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Wine tasting at Audrey Wilkinson’s

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INDIA

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The Imperial, Delhi

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Snake charmer, Delhi

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Sticks at the Monkey God Temple, Shimla

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Shimla

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Inside the Oberai, Shimla

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Viceroy Lodge, Shimla

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The Toy Train

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Man on a train Chandigarh

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On the road again with ChetRam-Ji

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The Grace Hotel, McLeod Gang

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Supper at the Grace Hotel

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Kangra Fort, Himachal Pradesh

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Stoneworkers, Kangra

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Schoolboys, rural India

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Monks, Dharamsala

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Waiting for the Dalai Lama

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The Golden Temple, Amritsar

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Mani

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Wearing Iris’s scarf – ‘for ‘ceremonial purpose!’, Amritsar

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Families at the Golden Temple

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Peeling the potatoes. Golden Temple complex, Amritsar

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Sikhs at the Golden Temple.

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Taking our seats! Beating the Retreat ceremony, Wagah

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Indian Army beating the retreat on the Pakistan border, Wagah

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Jallianwala Bagh Amritsar

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Great India

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NEW ZEALAND 

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Ceremonial dancing NZ

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Poi poi balls. NZ.

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The Kauri tree

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A dummy in the Dunny!

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Sheep pyramid at the Agrodome, Rotorua NZ.

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Rotorua boilings

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Camerons Laughing Gas Pool, Rotorua

AUSTRALIA AGAIN 2008

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Crocodile, Yellow Water Wetlands

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Yellow Water Wetlands. NT

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Sunset. Mindil Beach, Darwin

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Climbing rock face to get to Rock Art. Kakadu. NT.

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Rock Art, Kakadu

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EmDee at Mindil Beach, Darwin

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Mindil Market

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The famous Water Buffalo, Adelaide River township

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Tiwi Art. Bathurst Island. South Pacific.

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Tiwi children

Tiwi children

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Tiwi Art. Bathurst Island. South Pacific.

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Showing me the ochre and chalk pigments. Tiwi Islands

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Jilamara face painting. Tiwi Islands

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Nobby’s Beach NSW

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Final wine tasting at Audrey Wilkinson’s Vineyard. Hunter Valley.

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The Indian Pacific

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Cook

Cook

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Connie in the Nullarbor desert

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The Megamouth, Perth. WA.

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Quokka. Rottnest Island

Quokka. Rottnest Island

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Perth from King’s Park

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With Robert at the Perth Mint