Weekend Reflections: Odet river, Quimper, France, December 2008

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You all have a merry New Year's Eve! Sorry for not visiting all your blogs, I am away, with a computer but very little connection possibilities...

Worpswede, Germany, 2009

I am off to Quimper today, my connection will be rocky at best. See you soon!

Louis Vuitton window, Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 2009

Astilbe, 2009

Neuhauser Straße, Munich, Germany, 2008

Languivoa, Finistère, France, 1988

Old scanned photo.

Weekend Reflections: Côte de la Fabrique street houses, Québec, QC, Canada, 2009

Wishing everyone a merry and happy Christmas! Frohe Weihnachten! Buon Natale! God Jul! Feliz Navidad! Sorry I can't say it in more languages...

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Bescherung: Christmas Eve 2008

In my family, we do Christmas the German way. So today, Heiligabend, we have Bescherung in the afternoon. It is all explained here. Happy Christmas Eve to you all!

Seasonal still life, Pont L'Abbé, Finistère, France, 2009

Street pantomime, Bremen, Germany, December 2009

The Bremen Town Musicians, a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

Peugeot Showroom, Paris, 2008

Shop windows, Bremen, Germany, December 2009

Weekend Reflections: traffic jam in Sèvres, France, 2009

Our car (and me but you can't see me!) reflected in a parfumerie during a monster traffic jam due to ice last Thursday for James' Weekend reflections. To see more interpretations check out Newtown Area Daily Photo.

Shopping arcade, Bremen, Germany, December 2009

Lloyd Passage.

Avenue George V, Paris, France, 2009

Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, 2009

Photo by my father. Maybe Vogon Poet would be so good as to tell us what exactly these are, because my parents were... er... baffled...

Café, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 2009

At Munich Christmas market, Germany, 2008

Strasbourg, Alsace, France, 2002

Old scanned photo.

Weekend Reflections: Munich cathedral spires, Germany, 2008

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L'Ile Tudy, Finistère, France, 2009

Nymphenburg porcelain window, Munich, Germany, 2008

Nymphenburg porcelain.

L'Ile Tudy, Finistère, France, 2009

At Munich Christmas market, Germany, 2008

At the market in Cahors, Lot, France, 2007

Touchet river, Washington state, USA, 2008

Port la Forêt, Finistère, France, 2009

Tadoussac, Québec, Canada, 2009

Saint Cirq Lapopie, Lot, France, 2007

As from today, I shall be away in until Sunday. HTE continues automatically, have a great weekend.

Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy, 2008

Place du Théâtre, Lille, France, 2008

Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, 2009

Photo by my friend AC.

Ambialet, Tarn, France, 2007

Weekend Refections: Le Bostonnais, Québec, Canada, 2009

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Loctudy, Finistère, France, 2009

Sellin, Rügen Island, Germany, 2001

Old scanned photo.

Coulon, Deux-Sèvres, France, 2005

Old scanned photo.

Though it has NOTHING to do with Coulon, here's a little extra for Vogon Poet. Je suis damnée...

Somewhere along route 172, Québec, Canada, 2009

Rochefort en Terre, Morbihan, France, 2005

Old scanned photo.

Enterprise, Oregon, USA, 2008

Weekend Reflections: Abeille-Bourbon, Brest, Finistère, France, 2009

The Abeille-Bourbon is one of three high seas Search and Rescue tugs on the French Atlantic and Channel coasts. Her sistership, Abeille-Liberté, is based in Cherbourg. The Abeille-Bourbon replaced the Abeille-Flandre, a tug with which I was hopelessly in love with for years and years... and whose Cherbourg sistership was called Abeille-Languedoc.

More information about this tug's characteristics can be found here, albeit in French. Those who, like me, aren't seasick, can watch a video of the Abeille-Bourbon in operation here and of my great love the Abeille-Flandre heading out of Brest at full speed to rescue in 12-14 metre waves here. Many thanks to the 12 men on board, who risk their lives to save others, as well as our coasts from catastrophes.

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Rhondda Fawr, Wales, 1997

Old scanned photo.

Gordes, Vaucluse, France, 2009

Photo by my father.

Port au Persil, Québec, Canada, 2009

Pont l'Abbé river, Finistère, France, 2009