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Category Archives: Travel
A Lingering Look at Windows: Beautiful Bordeilles, Rural France
This week’s A Lingering Look at Windows, Dawn’s wonderfully laid back weekly photo challenge, has me remembering a visit to the delightful town of Bordeilles in the Dordogne region of southwestern France in the summer of 2012. Transported as I was … Continue reading
A Lingering Look at Windows: Parisian Windows for Valentine’s Day
Well, I missed yesterday, unable to get my post out (no excuses, same old same old) but then I realised that I have the perfect excuse since the theme this week over at A Lingering Look at Windows Week #7 … Continue reading
Posted in A Lingering Look at Windows, Photos, Travel
Tagged A Lingering Look at Windows, Eurostar, Paris, Photos of Paris, travel, Valentine's Day
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A Lingering Look at Windows: Muted Light
This has been a different and unusual week for me in many ways. So many thoughts swirl about my head at the moment, full of the twists and turns of every day living and the way life can turn on … Continue reading
Posted in A Lingering Look at Windows, Photos, Travel
Tagged A Lingering Look at Windows, California, Foreign travel, France, Light, Memories, photo, photograph of a window, travel, Windows
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WPC: Windows of Pefki, Crete
What better way to start a new blogging year than with a few challenges to add to the mix? For a little while now I’ve been thinking about taking up the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge for the simple reason … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Crete, Foreign travel, Pefki Village, Photographs of windows, Poem, Poetry, postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge, Windows
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Cornwall, ‘Rebecca’ and a Homecoming
Well, Thanksgiving has been and gone (I hope you all had a good one!), my son Nicky celebrated his birthday in style and we spent a wonderful weekend with some very special people at their lovely home in Cornwall. To my … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Reading, Current Affairs, Family Life, Musings, My California, Photos, Travel
Tagged Author, Books and Reading, British Isles, Cornwall, Current Affairs, Daphne Du Maurier, Family Life, Fowey, Italian Job, Looe, Marriage, Movies, Musings, My California, travel, West Country, Withnail & I, writing
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