Linked to Jude’s Life in Colour here:
As promised yesterday, here are a few more Reds from Japan.
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Life in Colour 24 – Red
Connected to Jude’s Life in Colour here.
Just two more days before the end of this month’s challenge and I offer some reds from Japan. I rather belatedly remembered that it’s a country where red is a favourite colour. It’s taken me ages to downsize them as I seem to have lost my ‘Optimize button for web use’ in the upgrade of the programme I normally would use for this purpose, so I’ve had to do each one individually. A few more tomorrow.
Hope the macaque will be accepted as red. He looked so sad and lonely I just felt I had to include him! -
A Few More Reds
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.
The Belfast connection is that Fibber Magee’s is one of the livliest and best pubs in the city if you’re after music, and of course, George Best is Belfast’s favourite son. This poster bearing his picture was for a new hotel due to open just before Covid disrupted everyone’s plans. I presume the George Best Hotel will get underway again when the virus has abated somewhat but meantime Belfast has some great places to stay and some great pubs in which to enjoy the craic and the music. -
A Photo with Memories
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.
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Life in Colour – Red
Linked to Jude’s Life in Colour
Lots of red tee shirts ready for Chinese New Year in Singapore. 
Chinese New Year illuminated window decoration 
I meet the Thai Santa Claus in Phuket
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One Word Sunday – Bridge
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.
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Red Transport
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.
Fire Station, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The red tiled frontage is a bonus! 
This time the station has the local tram in front, and as luck would have it, it is red!
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Gone AWOL
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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Pond or Ponder
This week for one word Sunday, Debbie at Travel with Intent has chosen “Pond or Ponder”. My take on this is below.
I think its one for each girlfriend! 
Pond with reflections Kykr National Park, Croatia 
The six passengers onboard cargo ship The Author, ponder what awaits us in Venezuela as we pass the favelas on our approach to the Port of Caracas.
MARI'S TRAVELS WITH HER CAMERA 