The Loire Valley and especially Blois
The City Daily Photo theme day this month is the photo of the year for 2015. First, I checked out my nine most “liked” photos on Instagram, then asked the readers of my other blog, Aussie in France, to choice their favourite. I took this photo of Château de Sully, on the Loire, last April, on a …
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Regular readers will know that I already posted this photo two weeks ago. I hesitated but I am not a shopper and have no other photos of shop windows in my archives. Theme day crept up on me too late to go window shopping and this photo kept coming back to me all the time …
Lavoirs or wash houses are to be found throughout France and were still in use in the mid-20th century. They provided shelter to washerwomen all year round. This one is in Suèvres. For other entries in the City Daily Photo Theme Day, click here.
I have to say that this month’s City Daily Photo theme did not inspire me. It’s hard to say what can be considered a cusiosity. In the end, I decided to post this photo that I already published some time ago. I’m not sure what these rows of corn cobs represent but they are rather …
The Loire Valley, with the Loire à vélo cycling route, is a popular region with cyclists and part of the Eurovelo 6 route which goes from Saint Nazaire on the Atlantic Coast to the Black Sea, a total of 3653 kilometers, along the Loire, Rhine and Danube Rivers, going through France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, …
I have always been fascinated by Dali’s “Swans Reflecting Elephants“. I would have liked to find something similar but to no avail so here’s the next best thing: a château reflecting a castle. The photo below is an unexpected reflection but doesn’t qualify today because I didn’t take it in the Loire Valley, but in Paris at …
I had a few candidates for ths month’s City Daily Photo Theme Day of stylish but this is the only one Jean Michel and I agreed on. This neglected corner is in an 18th century private park near Gien For other entries, click here. J’avais plusieurs possibilités pour la journée thème de City Daily Pboto ce …
This photo, taken unwittingly, seemed a perfect entry for this month’s City Daily Photo Theme Day entitled my camera-shy self-portrait.For other entries, click here. Cette photo, prise à mon insu, semble parfaite pour le thème mensuel de City Daily Photo intitulé mon auto-portrait de la part de quelqu’un qui déteste être pris en photo. Pour d’autres …
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There is a lot of ageing going on in this photo – the gate, the lock, the posts, the trees, the wall, the tiles on top of the wall …For other takes on the theme, click here. Il y a beaucoup de choses dans cette photo qui sont en train de vieillir : le portail, …
I asked our readers to choose their favourite photo for 2014 and then chose one from among their suggestions that I think is typical of the Loire. This weather vane in the pretty little village of Cour sur Loire depicts a gabarre flat-bottomed boat. From the Greek karabos meaning shell, refers to several types of river boats in various places along the …