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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 25 Feb 23

At the end of March, my husband and I will be heading to Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland, to spend a month with our son and his wife. We are swapping houses with a couple who are coming to Perth, Western Australia, to visit their...

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Where we were June 3, 2019

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Jun 20

It’s hard to believe that twelve months ago we were on a canal boat on the Loire Canal in France. Eight of us shared a self-drive boat which was very comfortable with individual ensuite cabins. We were on the boat for a fortnight...

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A mushroom cloud

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jul 19

While we were on our house-boat trip on the Loire canal in France we passed by some nuclear cooling towers. We knew it was coming up from what we’d seen on Google, and well before we could see the towers we saw the cloud high in...

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St Bernadette - an incorruptible

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Jul 19

While in Nevers, France, we visited the Convent Chapel where the incorrupt body of St Bernadette lies in a glass casket. Her body was exhumed several times and at one point washed. This resulted in her exposed face and hands...

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Very 'ordinary' stain-glass windows in Nevers Cathedral, France

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Jul 19

While in France recently in a house-boat on the Canal Lateral a la Loire, we spent two nights in Nevers. The cathedral there, of Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Juliette, was built between the 11th and 16th centuries. During World War II, it...

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Are those long johns dry yet?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Jun 19

While we were travelling in Ireland, France and Austria, I was always on the lookout for something a bit different or something that I thought would interest my friends on myLot. I was as bad as Vince, taking my camera with me...

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A capybara in France - correction, it is a coypu

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Jun 19

When we dropped our house-boat off in Dompierre-sur-Besbre, we saw this odd animal among the more common ducks, drakes and swans. The thing that looks like a huge rat is not a capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) as I thought but...

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Red swimsuits for us all

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 22 Jun 19

While in the city of Nevers in France, we walked through some very interesting markets and couldn’t resist lining up for photos behind these cardboard swimsuit-clad figures. My friend bought a small, wooden crucifix and I bought...

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Some birds have no respect

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 31 May 19

Some birds have no respect at all, do they? This one was on a statue of Joan of Arc in the middle of Paris somewhere. Vince snapped it out of a car window. The statue was in the middle of a roundabout and it took us at least a few...

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We saw some yellow-jackets in France

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 30 May 19

While we were having lunch in a café in Nevers, we saw some yellow-jackets marching up the street with their banners. It was quite a small group and didn’t really cause any trouble. Behind them, at a discreet distance, came a...

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I rode a bike in France - well, sort of!

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 30 May 19

I lived on a farm when I was young and although I could ride a horse from a young age, I never learnt to ride a bike until well into my teens. I don’t know if this had anything to do with it but I was never much good on a bike and...

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How locks on canals work

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 29 May 19

From comments on my recent posts, I gather my talk about ‘locks’ has confused some people so I’ll tell you about the locks now. In years gone by, rivers were used to move goods and people up- and down-stream. Canals were built...

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A lucky escape for a fellow boatman on our last day on the canal

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 27 May 19

We’ve recently finished a canal boat journey on the Canal Lateral a la Loire in France. The locks on the canal were very interesting. When we hired a narrow boat in Ireland, we had to operate the locks ourselves but in France...

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Here's the key - but I'll not be giving it to you

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 22 May 17

On Sunday we are catching the train to Perth, capital of Western Australia. Later that evening we wlll catch a plane to firstly Dubai (11 hours) then, after a 2-hour stopover, we fly on to Dublin, Ireland (another 8 hours) where...

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We Revisit the Bog Oak in Pollagh

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Nov 15

A few days after the Hay-Making Festival in Trim, we went off to visit Pollagh (also spelt Pullough or Pollach) in Co. Offaly in the midlands. We last visited Pollagh in 1998 when we moored there in a canal boat. Today canal-boat...

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