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A Guide to the Horses of Iceland

Where to even begin? Seven days in Iceland and my mind is so full to the brim with wonder and splendour that I am feeling a little befuddled. This seems like a good start. This tourist book was in our accommodation in Reykjavik. The...

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Spring flowering

Our spring trip to the Wheatbelt and Great Western Woodlands coincided with the most spectacular display of flowering.

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Eucalypts of Great Western Woodlands

Way way back in September Tim and I finally made it to the Great Western Woodlands. I have so many photos, so many words and so many thoughts. So many as to stop me from doing anything at all. Here, if nothing else, are some images from the awe inspiring diversity of...

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Switzerland

Switzerland was all about fabulous friends, magnificent mountains, trains and chocolate. In fact we hardly ate any chocolate when we were there, but chocolate shopswere everywhere. We arrived in Morges, on the shore of Lake Geneva, to the open-armed welcome of all the...

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Lodeve and Langue Doc

My folks Gaye and Ron have a share in an apartment in Lodeve in the Langue Doc region of France (for some years) but we weren’t sure that we’d ever get a chance to visit. We arrived on a warm afternoon to 1 Place de la Rebublique to find a big (for 2 people) white...

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Paris!

Beautiful beautiful Paris. How to choose where to go and what to see in our short 2.5 days there?  For example there is a museum for just about everything you could imagine – counterfeiting, magic, eroticism, fans, freemasonry, clocks, smoking, perfume, tennis,...

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