Linked to Life in Colour at Jude’s here
I’ve found a few more reds, two from St. Malo (France) and two from Belfast (N. Ireland)
First up St. Malo and my favourite restaurant which serves up moules in every way you could wish. My all-time favourite is the traditional mariniere style, and I like a spoon and some good fresh bread to sup up the delicious liquid that remains in the navy enamel bowl after the moules have been dispatched.
I mis-read a photo challenge a few days ago and after much thought and recollections, I dug out some memorable photos only to realize they were not what was required. Regardless, I’ll put the first one up as when I looked at it again it carried me back a few years to a brilliant holiday in Sydney with a young friend who died of Covid last year. We had a simply perfect holiday with him, his wife and two children and I miss him still. He’s not in the picture by the way. This is just one I took on a day that sticks in my memory. So, thank you John, RIP.
Linked to Jude’s Life in Colour
A selection of lesser known bridges away from the crowds in London, where life is slow, barges are still transporting goods on the river, and the peace and calm is a far cry from the hub and bustle of the Thames we are more familiar with.
Then a hop over to Seville in Spain, where there are some spectacular bridges over the Guadalquivir River. These are just two, the first one being the modern Alamillo Bridge by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava, and the second one, built in the mid-19th century, is the equally famous Triana Bridge.
I haven’t posted for some time but I’ve been reading all your posts. So back again, dipping a cautious foot in first.
This week Jude asked for images of red transport and after delving into the archives and finding mostly slides, I finally came up with something that qualifies, I think. Although the fire engine isn’t showing very much, I hope the fire-station will provide enough colour, but there is a red vehicle in one of the pictures so I haven’t completely failed in my attempt to provide some red transport. These date back about 25 years I think.
The captions in this theme are hard to read unless you high-light them but the two pictures are of the Fire-Station in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
This time the station has the local tram in front, and as luck would have it, it is red!
I have been absent from Word Press for a week now and it looks as though it will be another week before my work is finished helping dispose of the contents of the house of my friend who died recently and whose Probate has just been granted enabling the sale of the property. The executors live some 300 miles from here and they have done their best travelling up and down to dispose of what they could, seeing solicitors and hoping, always hoping, for completion of the sale.
Due to Covid ….. (you’ve heard this often enough), charity shops in my catchment area are chock-a-block with furniture, books, linens, etc. and we can only get rid of the very best of the furniture – both nothing in dark wood. Chairs, beds and mattresses can’t go because they have been recovered and don’t have the fire-retardant label attached. After 3 weeks on Free Cycle we only managed to dispose of one bed and headboard. Now what is left has to go to the tip. Seeing lovely old furniture being thrown away like this sits heavily on me but there’s nothing we can do. AND, removal of same is costing in the region of £400!
So, think about what you have lurking in corners that you could maybe find a useful home for and dispose of it NOW if you can. It has certainly shown me that it’s time I got rid of a few more items. The days when you called in a house clearance firm have long gone and unless you live in an area where you can leave stuff on the pavement for anyone to take away, you may be leaving problems for your executors.
Meantime, I am having to ignore/delete all emails as I just cannot make time to read them, but I hope to be back within a week. See you then.
Mari
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This week for one word Sunday, Debbie at Travel with Intent has chosen “Pond or Ponder”. My take on this is below.
I’ve been tempted to submit to this challenge after looking at Ann-Christine’s lovely photos, not that I think mine come up to her standard, but it has pushed me to look through my own folio and see what I could come up with. Too many, it turns out, but here are a few of my favourites, mostly here because they remind me of some long gone precious days.
Elephants need water for washing and, if possible, a mahout to do the work with a scrubbing brush, which they love. Here is one I took in northern Thailand at a time when elephants were still used in farming.
While with the animals here’s one from Cambodia where the water buffaloes were enjoying the water.
Next we move on to canals and to the very first summit level canal built in Great Britain. Built in N. Ireland in 1742, it is the Newry Canal which pre-dated the more famous Bridgewater Canal by nearly thirty years and it was built to link the Tyrone coalfields (via Lough Neagh and the River Bann) to the Irish Sea at Carlingford Lough near Newry.
And still with canals, my favourite canal trip of all time, the 6-day journey on board a historic ship along the Gota canal, from Gothenburg to Stockholm across one river, eight lakes and two seas. The ships have scarcely been altered since they were first used to take immigrants from Stockholm to the departure port for America and few concessions are made to tourists, i.e. no en-suite rooms, communal showers only and, it must be said, rather cramped quarters (so luggage must be kept to a minimum). Yet what a magical journey that was, across a black lake and a dark sea with stops along the way to visit historic sites. I went in midsummer, almost permanent daylight and that had its own magic, eating cherries and wild strawberries and drinking hot chocolate at 3.00 am on deck as the beautiful Swedish landscape glided by.
Just a few more watery memories and then I’m done:
Rivers, Oceans, Lakes and Marshes.
MARI'S TRAVELS WITH HER CAMERA 