{"id":1460,"date":"2017-04-17T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T12:52:09","slug":"two-more-ingress-trips-in-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/two-more-ingress-trips-in-december-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more Ingress trips in December 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trip to Norwich<\/h1>\n

You might think that Norwich is a long way to go for Ingress but I did have another reason for going. The two reason together made it seem a sensible thing to do. Honest.<\/p>\n

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A view of Norwich Castle with a poster advertising “Fishermen to Kings<\/a>” – an exhibition of Olive Edis photographs in the Castle Museum and Art Gallery<\/a>. There is a BBC 1 program that may still be available to watch<\/a>\u00a0if you are quick.<\/p>\n

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Just in front of the Castle are the Castle Mall shops and this is the roof in the Castle Mall Gardens.<\/p>\n

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I forgive them for not doing it in this photo because it was late on a cold December afternoon but I am sure the door is usually a little wider open and the light on the pavement inviting people in off Elm Hill into The Bear Shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This detail of the window shows some of the choice.<\/p>\n

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Just round the corner from The Bear Shop is Britons Arms<\/a> a coffee shop and restaurant that looks as though it could be a nice place for lunch or afternoon tea.<\/p>\n

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And around the corner from Britons Arms is this view of Friars Quay looking towards The Mischief, The Ribs of Beef<\/a> and Fye Bridge St.<\/p>\n

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This is a view of St Andrew’s Church<\/a> taken from the bottom of Prince’s St<\/p>\n

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And just across from there are The Halls<\/a>, Norwich. I’m sure most of these buildings look equally, if not more, inviting during proper daylight.<\/p>\n

A trip to York<\/h1>\n

I have been to York quite a few times and many of them for Ingress and several of those trips were to meet up with others playing the game. In fact one of them was just after I had got to level 8, so that was back in early 2014 – 23 February to be exact. This latest trip in December 2016 was a solo trip and I only have a couple of photos to show for it. As I expected I was followed by, and followed, the Enlightened. They like to tidy up as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

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I could have done with a bit more practice with this shot. It would also have been better if I had a tripod and didn’t feel conspicuous taking photos in the street. This is outside what was BHS on Coney St. next to the Yorkshire Bank. I have a couple of ideas where I want to take photos similar to this one but I don’t like photographing people \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

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This photo is the clock on St Martin le Grand parish church on Coney St, York. The figure on the top is known as “Little Admiral” taking a sighting on the sun with his sextant. He survived the fire after the bombing in 1942. The gilded head of Father Time on the side is a replacement for the one that got damaged. The clock is of course a portal <\/a>in Ingress.<\/p>\n