A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - C is for Cocktails and Coca-Cola

As I travel the world I take many photos that pique my interest, these could be lumped into a "peculiar category" ie. they are peculiar to my interests and may be different from what one usually sees in a collection of travel photos.

For the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge in 2025 my theme is Peculiar Pics. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Peculiar Pics from my digital albums. These will be sourced from my travels between April 2024 to March 2025.

Today I celebrate some of my favourite beverages. While Coke Zero is a regular on my menu I only indulge in Cocktails at Happy Hours or when they are included in the cost of our Regent cruises.  

I am constantly amazed at the penetration the Coca-Cola Company has in all areas of the world.

Malaga, Spain

Tangier, Morocco

Cadiz, Spain

Vannes, France

Quick lunch - Barcelona, Spain

Athens, Greece

On Board Eurostar - London to Lille

Passau, Germany

Budapest, Hungary

A Warehouse? - A Coruna, Spain

Take a seat - Kobe, Japan

And then there's my other fave. I'm working my way through the cocktail menu on Regent ships and must remember to photograph them before diving in.  

Qantas First Class Lounge, Sydney

Regent Seven Seas Splendor

It was tasty - Qantas First Class Lounge - Sydney, Australia

Beatles Night - Regent Seven Seas Navigator

His and Hers Harvey Wallbangers - Regent Seven Seas Mariner

Pre-show Bevvies - Seven Seas Navigator

Espresso Martini - Seven Seas Splendor

This may have been Fruit Juice - Seven Seas Splendor

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - B is for Bells and Bookshops

 As I travel the world I take many photos that pique my interest, these could be lumped into a "peculiar category" ie. they are peculiar to my interests and may be different from what one usually sees in a collection of travel photos.

For the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge in 2025 my theme is Peculiar Pics. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Peculiar Pics from my digital albums. These will be sourced from my travels between April 2024 to March 2025.

When I hear bells I am taken back to my school days and the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. 

Bell Tower - Messina, Sicily

St Paul's Church - Passau, Germany

In a Church, Messines, Belgium

In Flanders Fields Museum -Ypres, Belgium

One drives under this - Bordeaux, France

Bell of Hortensia in Meriken Park - Kobe, Japan

As a former librarian and a lifelong bibliophile I find it hard to walk past a bookshop. 

Famous Bookshop, Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal (snapped from a bus)

I think it's a bookshop - Vannes, France
It was closed on the Sunday we were there

Kotor, Montenegro

Bookshop in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. We may have invested in a few tomes. 

A Bookshop in the main street - Miltenberg, Germany

Budapest, Hungary

Just a few books to sell - On the street, Athens, Greece

I wonder what's inside - Budapest, Hungary

https://abc.nl/ -Amsterdam, Netherlands

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - A is for Arches and Anchors

As I travel the world I take many photos that pique my interest, these could be lumped into a "peculiar category" ie. they are peculiar to my interests and may be different from what one usually sees in a collection of travel photos.

For the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge in 2025 my theme is Peculiar Pics. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Peculiar Pics from my digital albums. These will be sourced from my travels between April 2024 to March 2025.

Britannica tells me that an "arch, in architecture and civil engineering, (is) a curved member that is used to span an opening and to support loads from above. The arch formed the basis for the evolution of the vault."

So my first image in this post is not really an arch!
 

Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine - Osaka, Japan 

On our walk through the old town - Tangier, Morocco

Supermarket - Lisbon, Portugal

Royal London Yacht Club - Cowes, Isle of Wight UK

Mural - Gadigal Light Rail Station, Sydney, Australia

Exit from the Old Town - Kotor, Montenegro

St Emillon, France

Melk Abbey - Melk, Austria

Wikipedia provides a detailed description of an Anchor. Most of the anchors I have snapped are out of the water in Museums and on monuments. 

Timber Anchor in Museum - Cadiz, Spain

Anchor from the Amoco Cadiz - Portsall, Brittany, France

Spotted on our way to the Balenciaga Museum - Getaria, Spain

Driveby - Matosinhos, Portugal

A Light Month for Reading

March for me was a month of travel. As often happens I didn't get much time to read when I was on the road, sea and sky. 

I am pleased to report that I managed to read seven books and that I am still on track to reach my goal of reading 100 titles this year.

I'm still on track with the Goodreads Challenge

My reading in March included some new-to-me authors, Charlie Donlea and Alafair Burke. Their mysteries certainly drew me in and maintained my interest..