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

Christmas Eve

 While searching Trove on another matter I came across one of these poems so, of course, went searching for more. Here are a few I found from over 100 years ago.

1917 'CHRISTMAS EVE.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 12 December, p. 11. , viewed 22 Dec 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138742028

1916 'CHRISTMAS EVE.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 4 November, p. 16. , viewed 22 Dec 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133836852

1913 'CHRISTMAS EVE.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 24 December, p. 14. , viewed 22 Dec 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137023478

Widdle Warning

Going through some old holiday snaps I found this warning notice from 1994.