Travel with Intent

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, […]

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Perfect Dawn for a Horse Lover

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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

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 […]

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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 […]

-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