Ninety Nine Year Old Dobri Dobrev Goes Begging Each Day Then Gives The Money To The Poor And The Needy...

Called by many The Saint From Village Baylovo, ninety nine year old pensioner Dobri Dobrev once walked the fifteen miles but now travels by bus from his home to Bulgaria's capital Sofia to beg for money. Which he then gives away.
Dobri is a generous man and begs not to supplement his pension of less than 1.5 euros a day but to give money to the poor and the needy.
There's more about him here.
I don't know just how poor and needy the Saint Alexander Novsky Cathedral was but he once gave it over forty thousand euros.
For whatever reasons you do this Dobri, thankyou...

Whale Watching Delights In The Kingdom Of Tonga...

Recent visitors to The Kingdom Of Tonga's Vava'u Island Group have been treated to some close encounters with thirty six tonne Humpback Whales and their calves during the mammals' annual five month sojourn in the South Pacific.
New Zealand Herald photographer Richard Robinson was, as you can see here, very up close and personal underwater.
The Humpbacks spend the months of July to November in the warm waters of Tonga before migrating south to spend the summer feeding in Antarctica.
Vava'u has some of the world's most beautiful cruising grounds as visiting yachties will attest to.
I spent many wonderful months there on my yacht Sofia some years ago.
But that's another story...

Tiny Houseboat On Wheels...

ME AND ER is a very gorgeous little 'Retreat' Shantyboat drawn in 1947 by the famous American marine architect, William Atkin.
He also drew the lines for my 'Thistle' yacht Sofia in 1934 but that's another story.
Paul and Jenny built the eighteen foot, seven inch draft Meander for cruising their favourite sheltered waters wherever that may be.
Yesterday it was Parua Bay, not far from where they live on their homestay property, Tahikaka, surrounded by native bush and Olive trees.
But that's another story too...