A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - G is for Green and Gold

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.

While Australia's national colours are green and gold I have gone beyond Australia for most of these images.

School Group - WW1 Battlefields, Belgium

Foliage - Belgium

The Ulster Memorial Tower - Thiepval, Belgium

Tangier, Morocco

Low Tide - Portsall France

Roadblock - Isle of Wight, UK

Murwangi, Arnhem Land, Australia

Murwangi, Arnhem Land, Australia

Rock Garden - Greenway, Kingsway, UK
Country home of Agatha Christie

Aeropoli, Greece

Athens, Greece

Passau, Germany

Tangier, Morocco

I love the glitter of gold, especially when I'm wearing it. 

Ginger (Eliane Cossey) - Poperinge, Belgium

Green and Gold - London, England
Outside the Houses of Parliament

Kotor, Montenegro

Kotor, Montenegro

Cologne Cathedral - Cologne, Germany

Street Art - Regensberg, Bavaria, Germany

Gaugin's Chair by Vincent can Gogh
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2024: G is for Gold

Looking back through my travel photos I see that in many places we visited 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. 

Ostentation is alive in Eastern and Western Religions. In countries where poverty is rife many of Gods' houses are liberally embellished with Gold (or Faux Gold).

Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand

Winchester Cathedral - Winchester, England

Chartres Cathedral - Chartres, France

Mosque - Muscat, Oman

St Paul's Cathedral - London, England

Mumbai, India

Mumbai, India

Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey - Monserrat, Spain

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Wat Phra That Doi Suthep - Thailand

Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral - St Petersburg, Russia

Christian Church - Chiang Mai, Thailand

Shanghai, China

Jasna Góra Monastery - Czestochowa, Poland

Golden Temple - Kyoto, Japan

Crakow, Poland

Cordoba, Spain

Phuket, Thailand

London, England

Oviedo, Spain