The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches. Today, it’s St John’s Anglican Cathedral, in Napier, NZ. Unlike many of the churches in this series, this one isn’t ancient – in fact, it’s hardly even historic. It was built in the art deco style – as befits a church which replaces one…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches Today, it’s a sweet little church, call Saint James at Avebury. I’m an Australian. We’ve only had European settlement (and hence, permanent structures) here for about 230 years. So to find a little church, in a little village, that has been standing for more than a…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches.. Today, we are in England – at Salisbury Cathedral. This church is more than 750 years old, and is one of the best remaining examples of Early English Gothic architecture. It’s only about 15km from what may have been an earlier religious…
The theme for our travel pics this week is B – for Bridges. Today, it’s Tower Bridge, in London. You know the old song about “London Bridge is Falling Down”? This is, despite common misconception, NOT that bridge. In fact London Bridge was sold to an American many years ago. This, on the other hand,…
The theme for our travel pics this week is B – for Bridges. Today, it’s a footbridge, at Invercargill, in Scotland. We spotted this bridge as we took a break in the town, heading for Inverness and Urquhart Castle (on the banks of Loch Ness) The bridge itself is quite striking – but even more striking…
The theme for our travel pics this week is B – for Bridges. Today, it’s Welsh Bridge, at Shrewsbury in the UK. To be honest, we mainly went to this town because I am a Cadfael tragic – I’ve read all the novels about the medieval monk, and watched all the TV episodes with Derek Jacobi,…
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