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Tag Archives: travel
A Lingering Look At Windows: High Voltage Tattoo Parlor
Tattoos anyone? It’s been a while since I posted some photos for Dawn’s A Lingering Look At Windows challenge so to get started up again, I’m spicing things up a bit. Well, for me anyway! Your average English country garden … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Aspie Girl On The Move
It occurred to me recently that where I live now is the longest I’ve lived in one house (six years) for the past 35 years. Up until now, it would have been five years but the average ‘stay’ was … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters Of A 17th Century Prisoner
This week’s Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge is to share a photograph with letters, any letters. As Cheri puts it: ‘As you look through your lens, think about how your image might convey something bigger: a snapshot of how we … Continue reading
WPC: The Streets of Old City Dubrovnik, Croatia
Over at the Daily Post, the Weekly Photo Challenge for this week is ‘Street Life’. Cheri puts the challenge to us in this way: ‘For this challenge, document the movement (or stillness) of a street: tell a story with your … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, Croatia, Dubrovnik, Photos of the Old City of Dubrovnik, postaday, travel, UNESCO, Weekly Photo Challenge
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A Lingering Look at Windows: English Village, The Cotswolds
For this week’s A Lingering Look at Windows over at Dawn’s place, I’m sharing some photographs that I managed to squeeze in. They were taken during a little weekend getaway that Hubby and I attempted last weekend to a particularly … Continue reading
WPC: Abandoned Minoan Ruins of Crete
The Weekly Photo Challenge theme this week is ‘Abandoned’. The scope here is endless, open as always to individual interpretation. It could be about buildings, ruins, wastelands, or things that are overlooked. It could also be about people. I knew … Continue reading
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
WPC: Threes – A Story of the Sea
With the merry sound of Friday’s catchy little number no doubt still ringing in your ears (*grins mischievously*) and hoping that the weekend was good to you, I thought that my take on this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge would follow on … 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
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Tagged A Lingering Look at Windows, Eurostar, Paris, Photos of Paris, travel, Valentine's Day
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WPC: Family
A little late in the day (at least for my fellow same-time-zone bloggers) to start my new regime but here I begin with this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge theme which is ‘Family’. This gives a very broad scope for interpretation … Continue reading



































