Category Archives: Travel

Daily Post: Bittersweet Memories

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

You receive a gift that is bittersweet and makes you nostalgic. What is it? Photographers, show us GIFT. The City you knew The love you lost The love you found Before darkness fell… Photo: Bouquinistes, ©Joseph Jeiter, 1930

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Daily Prompt: Memories For Sale

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

Photographers, share an image that says MEMORY.

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Sunshine Award from a Master

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

 I am tickled pink at receiving the Sunshine Award from a much admired blogger, writer and Dominant Master, Sir Joseph McNamara (@JMcNamara4), grand financier and world traveller who hailed from New-York City and his magisterial fortress. Being in the company … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 26, 2013 ~ Women

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

“La liberté n’offre qu’une chance d’être meilleur, la servitude n’est que la certitude de devenir pire.” ~ Albert Camus Perhaps one day – how far in the future is a matter for speculation – it will be suggested that parthenogenesis … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 20, 2013 ~ Reims (and the Smiling Angel)

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

Reims  The Remi, a tribe of the Gauls, founded you as their capital a century BC.  By 260 AD you were Christian.  In your cathedral, Notre-Dame de Reims, many Kings of France were crowned.  In 496 Clovis was baptised on … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 9, 2013 ~ Helen of Troy

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

 Your face has come to us across three millennia, in a halo of mystery and staggering beauty: you were the daughter of Zeus, king of the gods, and Leda, also known as Nemesis.  In Sanskrit, your name means “the shining … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 6, 2013 ~ Femme

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

Femme, de Marcel Rochas  Marcel Rochas created the perfume “Femme” in 1943.  Suffice to say that some of the most beautiful women in the world have worn, are wearing and will wear “Femme”.  Suffice to say that the most beautiful … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 4, 2013 ~ Dolomites

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

Dolomites ~ Dolomiti ~ Dolomiten  The Dolomites are an alpine mountain range of North-Eastern Italy, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009.  It is said that part of the Dolomites are the last genuine wilderness left in Western Europe.  … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 3, 2013 ~ (Les) Cévennes

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

Les Cévennes  They are a mountain range in the South-East of the Massif Central of France (les Cévennes are part of the Languedoc-Roussillon administrative region).  Their highest peaks are Mont Lozère and Mont Aigoual, respectively 1699 and 1657m high.  This … Continue reading →

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#AtoZChallenge: April 2, 2013 – Berlin

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

There is no theme to these posts, other than perhaps geography, as in places, landscapes and people – and of course writing, books, authors and you, reader.  Some cities are more propitious to certain books, whether as one travels to … Continue reading →

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