A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - V is for Vertical

 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.

I have been collecting images of stripes for a while and needed a theme for V. As lines that run from top to bottom or bottom to top can be described as vertical I  have chosen to use some of my Stripey images in this post.

Book Nook - Osborne House, Isle of Wight

A Great meal here while waiting for the ferry to Portsmouth
Fishbourne Inn - Ryde, Isle of Wight

Wood Panelling - St Pancras Hotel - London, England

Flagpoles - Australian Corps Memorial Park, Le Hamel, France

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Not everything is pretty - Cassis, France

Houses - Vannes, France

Escalator - Balenciaga Museum, Getaria, Spain

Corrugated Iron Walls - Borradaile, Arnhem Land, Australia

Corrugated Iron Walls in our Cabin - Borradaile, Arnhem Land, Australia

Change Rooms - Curry Reserve, Camden, NSW, Australia

Westminster Abbey - London, England

Wearing stripes - Messina, Sicily

Vertical Backdrop - Athens, Greece

Artwork - Moco Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Vertical support - Cologne, Germany

Keeping tourists safe - Marksberg Castle, Germany

Temporary Relocation? - St Stephens Cathedral, Passau, Germany

Vertical Overload - Palace of Westminster, London, England

Tradition Costume - Seoul, South Korea

ANZAC Memorial Walk - Newcastle, Australia

Guard Box - Tangier, Morocco

Leaving Port - Portsmouth, England

Westminster Abbey - London, England

Vertical Reflections - Cowes, Isle of Wight

Flagpoles Portside - Monte Carlo, Monaco

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - Q is for Quotes

 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.

Quotes are simply groups of words that are shared or published. They may be happy, sad, kind, cruel, biased, opinionated or instructional. As I have a love of environmental print I am sharing some of the quotes I snapped over the past year. 

As we did a World War One ANZAC Tour several of my snaps are around that theme.

Message in our hotel - Lille, France

Hooge Crater Museum - Belgium

Message left by a visitor - Museum in Belgium

Sir John Monash Centre - Belgium

Sir John Monash Centre - Belgium

Tablet - Amiens Cathedral, France

Poster- In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium

The following three images were drawn by children in the Victoria School  in Villers-Bretonneux where the Franco-Australian Museum is housed.

A Soldier's words -  Franco-Australian Museum , Villers-Bretonneux, France

Franco-Australian Museum , Villers-Bretonneux, France

Franco-Australian Museum , Villers-Bretonneux, France

Franco-Australian Museum , Villers-Bretonneux, France

Closer to home - Newcastle Memorial Walk, Australia

And on a lighter note.

In a Pub - London, England

Silent Protest near Houses of Parliament - London, England

Quoting Victoria - Osborne House, Isle of Wight

Restaurant - Kotor, Montenegro

I agree with those sentiments - Toronto, Australia

At a  Bar - Brisbane Airport, Brisbane

Not happy - Florence, Italy

In a Vineyard - St Emillon, France