In the past year since travel opened up for Australians Robert and I have taken several journeys at home and overseas. While I posted many photos of these adventures on Facebook I want to leave a more permanent record of some of our adventures. This challenge provides me with opportunities to share my photos and stories while recording some personal history.
I plan to share photos and stories from our travels between April 2022 and March 2023. My theme this year is In Anno Itinerantur.
Once upon a time in the dim, dark ages I was a librarian. To this day I am a passionate library lover who looks for libraries whenever she is travelling. As is evidenced by the photos I am posting today some of these visits are just views captured from a passing car. I apologise for the quality of these images but I just had to give a shout out to those havens of entertainmant, enrichment and education.
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Wee Waa, NSW |
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We walked past this near Kings Cross in London |
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In Cobh, Ireland |
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Another image from Cobh, Ireland |
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Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
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Excellent selection of books to borrow and some to swap on Regent Seven Seas Voyager |
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I couldn't spot a building but snapped this drive-by photo of a library sign in Bora Bora |
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The Library on Seven Seas Explorer is also well stocked and is a better design than the one on Voyager |
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Is the Literary Institute in Murrurundi, NSW a library? |
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Another drive-by in the main street of Gunnedah, NSW |
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My third visit to the Celsus Library in Ephesus, Turkey |
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The Public Library in Broome, Western Australia |
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The Library in Bletchley Park, England |
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See the security guard in this library admonishing me for taking this library photo in Rome, Italy |
But of course you’d have to photograph libraries :) I wonder why the Rome librarian was so agitated about a photo.
ReplyDeleteShe looked fierce so I beat a hasty retreat
ReplyDeleteHello! I'm visiting from A to Z and love your theme and today's post! I would never have thought of visiting a library on my travels, but as a former librarian, of course you would! And it looks like you have been all over the world! I enjoyed the pictures very much! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for popping in from across the Tasman Elaine, I just had a quick look at your blog. As a lover of Africa I'll return to see more of your A-Z posts.
DeleteI am also a frequenter of libraries in my travels -- often for genealogy research. That's a nice looking library at Bletchley Park. I wonder if any of the WWII secrets have passed the statute of limitations and are available there?
ReplyDeleteI think those documents would be in another favourite haunt of mine - The National Archives in Kew.
DeleteWhy am I not surprised that you also photograph libraries on your travels Jill. I enjoyed seeing them all.
ReplyDeleteI could do a whole AtoZ on Libraries!
DeleteWow so many libraries and you have even captured some from a moving car. That is some dedication for them Jill. I would have been in heaven had I grown up near a library. I was always short on books to read. My mom would save up to buy me books and since they were very expensive, it was a yearly treat to get a book or two. I used to devour books from my school library. I had made an arrangement with my friends/classmates; most of them didn't like to read. So I would select books for them to take out and then be able to read them all within the week (library books were issued once a week) and then return them and get more. I can't tell you how much I missed school when it got over because now I know longer had a source for my fix ;-)
ReplyDeleteBless your Mum for feeding your reading habit. We're fortunate to have good public libraries in Australia but I still like to own books. I now use my local libraries more then previously because they have awesome collections of eBooks I can borrow.
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