Showing posts with label Bells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bells. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2024: B is for Buddhas, Books and Bells

 Looking back through my travel photos I see that in many places there was, on our agendas, an Abbey, Cathedral, Chapel, Church, Convent, Monastery, Mosque, Pagoda, Synagogue, Temple or other place of worship. As we travel along the road I often take snaps of God's houses we pass by. These buildings range from ordinary to ostentatious. 

For the Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Blogging Challenge my theme is Gods' Houses. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Gods' Houses from my digital albums.

In today's posts I am focusing on Buddahs, Books and Bells, some of the features we might find in one of Gods' Houses.

Temple Bells - Bangkok, Thailand

Lectionary in Church - St Georges, Bermuda

Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, Thailand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phra_That_Doi_Suthep

Book,  Winchester Cathedral, - Winchester, England

Bell - Catholic Church,
Currie, King Island, Australia

Buddha -Vietnam

Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, Thailand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phra_That_Doi_Suthep

Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, Thailand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phra_That_Doi_Suthep

Bells on Church - La Palma, Canary Islands

Buddha, Wat Arun - Bangkok, Thailand

Bells on Church -  Corfu, Greece

Book in St Barnabas Chapel - Norfolk Island

Sakyamuni Buddha and his disciples - Bulguska, South Korea

Bells on Church - Mykonos, Greece

Book in Church - Saltaire, England

Books in Mosque - Muscat, Oman

Bell on Church - Ibiza, Spain

Register - Moravian Church, Fulneck, England

Bell in Temple - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Buddha in Temple - Thailand

Book in Church - Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

Buddha in Pagoda - Hue, Vietnam

Book in Church - Mykonos, Greece

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Peals of Pisa

On our third visit to the Tower of Pisa in June 2019 we managed to hear the bells ringing.



Rather than holding the Tower up my cheeky other half tried to push it over.




On our first visit in 1983 our children took the more conventional pose supporting the Tower.



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