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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 […]

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Sunset Twice Over

The shiny, reflective Opera House gives a twice-over view of sunset.   Copyright Debbie Smyth, 21 October 2016   Part of  Weekend Reflections and Shine

-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

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Hunting for Needles

Dramatic rock formations and Laricio pines make the Bavella massif a wonderful area for walking and climbing (and photography) .  Sitting,  watching and waiting, in hopeful expectation, for the jagged points of the […]
Hunting for Needles

-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

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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