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While the house boat cook was cooking mackarel fish we learned the recipe

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23252) 21 Apr

The house boat experience in Alleppey was awesome. We used to enter the kitchen of the house boat and learn the recipes of the different food. There was mackarel fish fry, beet vegetable, sambar dal and chicken curry with rice and...

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The experience of staying in house boat in Alleppey in Kerala was awesome

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23252) 20 Apr

In Alleppey in Kerala we stayed in house boat. There was backwater in Alleppey, meaning generally the flow of river happens towards sea. But there the river had a flow in the back direction. We stayed in the boat there was...

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In house boats there is fun seeing the skies at morning and evening.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23252) 17 May 23

In Alleppey in Kerala there is fun staying in house boats. There are backwaters. Travellers travel with the house boats for the number of days they stay. They have bath within the house boat and also meals over there. There is fun...

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The upper floor of House boat in Alleppey has beautiful ambience.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23252) 10 May 20

The houseboats are liked by travellers in Alleppey, Kerala. The ground floors are used for staying and having kitchen. From the upper floor the entire scenery of waterfront fringed with different types of trees can be seen. It is...

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Red swimsuits for us all

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • 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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Unusual coat-hangers

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Jun 19

While in Nevers, France, we attended some markets. There were the usual displays although of course they differed somewhat because we were in a different country. I bought a couple of French books for my daughter-in-law and we...

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Only in Ireland

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 2 Jun 19

We’re now in Ireland and a few nights ago we attended a concert in a village church. Our son and his wife both belong to a choir. The choir has closed now until September and at their ‘end of year’ performance, they performed...

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Now THAT is a tin of baked beans!

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 2 Jun 19

We’ve recently finished a tour of the Canal Lateral a la Loire in France. Eight of us hired a house-boat for twelve days. We have shared many good times over several decades. When we stay together, it is usually Vince who cooks...

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The cat in Decize, France

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 19 May 19

The parish church in Decize is dedicated to Saint Are, fourth bishop of Nevers between 548 and 558. On his death and as was his wish, Saint Are was carried in a fishing boat on the Loire and was buried where the boat stopped....

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A 'dry' toilet in a park in Nevers, France

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 18 May 19

We’ve spent today in Nevers in France. Although it was threatening rain, it stayed fine all day. We met some very friendly people too. After mooring the boat around lunch-time, we walked into town. It was quite a distance but we...

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In Decize, France and the weather is great

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 16 May 19

We and our house-boat are now in Decize but I haven’t had internet or much time to write about our adventures. Here you can see most of us taking photos of our boat. We are moored in a ‘pen’. Shortly after this we went back to a...

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Dawdling in Doha, Qatar

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 10 May 19

We’re in Doha in Qatar. We had a 12-hour flight from Perth. I watched three films and managed to catch some sleep as well. I had bought a neck support pillow before leaving and found it helped with sleeping. The three films I...

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The boxing kangaroo - another Aussie emblem

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Mar 19

In May, we will be joining six friends for ten days sailing on a house-boat on the Loire Canal in France. To say we are looking forward to it would be an understatement. When we toured France in our motor-home, we taped an...

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Have you heard of incorruptibles?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Feb 19

Have you heard of 'incorruptibles'? I wrote about them on Bubblews and did an even longer post about them on Infobarrel. This discussion mostly comes from the Bubblews post. Incorruptibles are people whose bodies don't decay...

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One-legged sooty owls

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Feb 19

Don't worry. These birds have two legs but they've drawn one each up into their feathers When we visited Peel Zoo in Western Australia on our recent house-boat trip, I took photos of many of the birds on display. These are...

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We've booked an apartment in Paris

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Feb 19

We will be part of a group of eight who will be flying to Paris early in May. We will stay two nights in Paris before taking a train to Dompierre sur Besbre to board a house-boat. Accommodation in Paris is incredibly expensive. At...

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Who's a pretty boy? The gang-gang cockatoo

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Feb 19

One of the birds we saw at the Peel Zoo on our house-boat trip was the gang-gang cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum). It is one of the emblems of the Australian Capital Territory (Canberra). The name is intriguing for a start...

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Are barking owls barking mad I wonder?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Feb 19

The Peel Zoo that we visited while on our house-boat had several species of owls. This one is a barking owl ( Ninox connivens). It is also known as the winking owl. They are medium sized and, as might be expected, one of their...

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Bruschetta - with an egg

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Feb 19

One of my favourite light meals when I’m eating out is bruschetta so when it was offered at an hotel while we were on the house-boat, I ordered it immediately. It came with a poached egg on top which I’d never seen before. The egg...

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River birds - the yellow spoon-bill

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 2 Feb 19

The photo is of two yellow-billed spoonbill ibis (Platalea flavipes) which we saw while we were on our house-boat on the Murray River in Western Australia. You can see where the name comes from. There are six species which all...

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