Countries

Kiss

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 back […]

-Provence

An Interesting Conversation

“Please keep talking, I always yawn when I’m interested” – unknown Copyright Debbie Smyth, 23 October 2016 Part of B&W Sunday

-France

“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 […]

-Kent

Colour Adventures in Margate

Margate draws me back repeatedly – a down-to-earth town with a gorgeous seafront, welcoming people and the Turner Contemporary. Places with sea or river are always a delight for me, […]

-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 […]

Normandy

Normandy Heights

I always think of cloisters as being buried low down and in the midst of the building, but the nature of Mont St Michel perched on an island and reaching up […]

-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 […]

-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 […]

-London

Where is Jacob’s Wife?

Jacob may have died an unknown in 1909, but he will clearly be infamous by 2167! This blue plaque caught my eye in the West End today, and reminded me of one […]

-Norway