I learned from last year’s challenge that if I was to last the distance the posts needed to be shorter and the topic less intense. I allowed myself some leeway with the posts making use of photographs. This year’s theme entered on places I had travelled to. Sometimes, the posts deviated from the main theme to keep me from becoming stale. I enjoyed putting the posts together. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Four days since the final post for the A – Z Challenge was due and 1, 516 fellow participants have emerged from the rabbit hole that was April. So much energy, writing, visiting, commenting and scurrying as we polished draft posts before hitting the publish button. And now the Selah, the pause and reflection: time to…
Linda Stewart If noise, loud noise, steam and smoke, swaying rhythm and adventure capture your imagination chances are you’ve taken a few train trips. My love affair with trains started as a youngster when I travelled home with friends for school holidays. That was in the 1960s. When trains steamed along billowing smoke and clack-clacked…
Strange as it may sound, yesterday has a comfortable familiarity about it. We may feel comfortable with some of the outcomes or perhaps not so pleased about other events that happened just twenty-four hours ago. Whatever, since it happened twenty-four hours ago it is now in our past and because we have moved through that…
History assuaged my natural curiosity during school and the internet fulfils the role whenever I need to know the specifics of a matter. English was my second love at school. Words and their meaning have held a fascination since standard four when we had a brilliant spelling and grammar text book presented as a series of…
Linda Stewart Last weekend we took our bicycles up to Newcastle as it has been a while since we had been along the Newcastle Coastal Walkway. We started at Nobby’s Headland and continued as far as we could and before the rain set in again. This weekend we visited another walkway closer to home, the walkway…
Linda Stewart Once a piece is posted I seldom revisit it unless the stats for that post indicate some activity around the topic. However, when I was thinking about a topic for “V” in the A – Z Challenge in April I thought at once of values and how we are driven by them in…
Linda Stewart When American bloggers wrote of being snowed in and having to shovel their way out of their homes it sounded like hard work, not much fun. Some did well to identify the benefits of no electricity, no vehicle and no work. I was grateful to be living on the sunny part of the…
Linda Stewart Where else would a pair of weary backpackers choose to spend their last five days in Turkey but in the middle of the most famous tourist area of Istanbul. Situated in the middle of the Sultanahmet district our hotel was a saunter to most of the must-see attractions of Istanbul. As fantastic…
Linda Stewart Each year we spend a week with the Camper Trailer Club, Australia at a different spot in New South Wales. When the week is over we go our separate ways and we took the opportunity to explore more of Australia. An excerpt from our on-line camping journal. It was going to be a…
It might be a short and narrow section of the Warners Bay Walkway but the Red Bluff section is both an engineering triumph and a walker’s delight. Walking southwards from Warners Bay towards Eleebana, two coastal suburbs on the shores of Lake Macquarie, the Red Bluff Shared Pathway hugs the lake’s coast along the Eleebana…
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