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Impossible to Resist

  “Literature and travel are anciently, inevitably tangled.  Journeys suggest stories, stories take the form of journeys, odyssey, exoduses, pilgrims’ and rakes’ progresses” – Jonathan Raban, For Love and Money […]

-Brittany

Coastal Path

The Ploumanac’h lighthouse is easily viewed from the coastal footpath, Sentier des Douaniers, a gentle stroll from Saint-Guirec.  The first lighthouse here was built in 1860.  Sadly, it was destroyed in […]
Coastal Path

-Brittany

Place of Stone Pink

This quaint building with devil-like grotesques and welcoming aqua-coloured doors rests on the pink granite coast of Brittany, between the village and the lighthouse of Ploumanac’h. I believe the cheeky grotesques that adorn the roof, are one […]
Place of Stone Pink

-France

Pink on High

Over four hundred pink umbrellas are bobbing high in the sky as part of Pink October’s awareness of breast cancer campaign. A number of local medical organisations and charities, known as the 2016 […]
Pink on High

-France

On the Beach

    Copyright Debbie Smyth, 18 October 2016     Part of Wordless Wednesday on Tuesday  

-France

Dawn

    If you fancy joining in with One Word Sunday, feel free to create your own photographic post with just one word (plus a basic caption if you want) and leave a link […]
Dawn

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Saintly Shopping

    The nineteenth century statue of Saint Louis (the work of Swiss sculptor James Pradier) has received a modern update.     Copyright Debbie Smyth, 16 October 2016     Part […]
Saintly Shopping