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Category Archive: Landscapes

Beach by the Shops

Friends have told me I should stop taking “miserable” photos. Here is a serious effort at a “happy […]

August 6, 2019 Art, Beach, Bourges, France, Fun, Landscapes, photography, summer

Paris From The BackTracks

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Paris, the city of Love, the City of Light. Emblematic, iconic, legendary, but from the train, it looks […]

June 23, 2019 drifting, Edgelands, Landscapes, Paris, photography, Railways, Tourism, TRAVEL

Around the Station

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Long time away, because I have been. Off up and down the tracks, which has led me to […]

June 23, 2019 drifting, Landscapes, photography, Railways, TRAVEL

Up The Jungle

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Off on my travels again next week. To mark the occasion, one of my Toy Story Road trips. […]

May 26, 2019 Art, Gardening, Landscapes, Motoring, photography, Road trip, TRAVEL

Welcome to La Creuse

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Welcome to Le Creuse in the depths of deepest France. We are in a rural “Bermuda Triangle between […]

March 17, 2019 Art, countryside, deepest france, drifting, driving, Farming, France, French Village, Landscapes, Military, photography, Provincial France, Road trip, Saturday, TRAVEL, Uncategorized

All Our Nowheres

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It was a remark from a blog reader – “why do you never take happy photos?” and it […]

March 1, 2019 Art, Bourges, drifting, Edgelands, Environment, France, Landscapes, photography, Provincial France, Road trip, TRAVEL

Urban North

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A weekend away in the northernmost French City of Lille. A few urban clichés. The usual classics – […]

February 3, 2019 Art, junk, Landscapes, photography, TRAVEL, Weekend

Naked in the Vines

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In a couple of days, we will be sloshing out the old year and toasting in the next. […]

December 29, 2018 Alcohol, countryside, deepest france, driving, Landscapes, New Year, photography, Road trip, Sancerre, TRAVEL, Uncategorized, vines, Wine

Autumn Writings – November

Continuing in the series of Autumn scribblings – November – a poem on crossing a bleak land of […]

November 4, 2018 Autumn, canals, countryside, Ghosts, Landscapes, Poetry, TRAVEL, writing

Autumn Writings – Walk In The Park

Autumn or Fall – the world turns a delicious hue of red and gold, the first hint of […]

November 3, 2018 Autumn, Landscapes, Travel writing, Weather, writing

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