13 Jan 2017
by joanfrankham
in Travel
Tags: architecture, Blogging, Germany, Mainz, Mainz Cathedral, Norm's Thursday doors, Romanesque, Thursday doors, visit Germany

Mainz Cathedral
These are the very impressive doors of the Romanesque Cathedral in Mainz, Germany. This building is over 1000 years old, and was built around the year 990, in the 10th century. It’s hard to cast my mind back that far, and hard to believe that this building is still standing and being used as a Cathedral, as originally intended. The doors are very tall, made of bronze, and date back to the 11th century.

Here are some views of the outside of the Cathedral, there was some repair work and scaffolding going on when we visited, but it is a very large and interesting building, as you can see.

Mainz Cathedral

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17 May 2016
by joanfrankham
in Travel
Tags: Blogging, Danube Canal, evening light, Narami, texture, tuesdays of texture, Vienna

The Danube Canal
The photo above was taken at the Danube Canal in Vienna, which is about 17 km long, and meanders around the city of Vienna, before joining the river further along. There were many pleasure boats and small cruise ships berthed there, waiting to take people on some night time cruises.

Cruising on the Canal
Visit Narami for more Tuesday photos
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13 Feb 2016
by joanfrankham
in Travel
Tags: Blogging, cattle, cattle breeders, cows, different, Nguni, Nguni cows, photography, six word saturday, Zimbabwe

Cows in Ireland
There are so many different breeds of cows, black, white, brown and a combination of all these colours. I particularly like the spotted cows below, a special breed found in Zimbabwe and South Africa called the Nguni.

Nguni cattle
Linked to Cate’s Six Word Saturday
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31 Jan 2016
by joanfrankham
in Travel
Tags: beautiful, Blogging, family, fun in the snow, Norway, norwegian winters, snow, vibrant, weekly photo challenge
This is my ‘Vibrant‘ entry, my grand daughter, Caitlin, having fun in the Norwegian snow, all wrapped up in her winter colours, falling down, getting up again, falling down again, and getting covered in snow, and loving it all!

having fun in the snow
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06 Dec 2015
by joanfrankham
in blogging, London, Travel
Tags: bear, Blogging, Christmas, Christmas time, display, Harrods bear, Heathrow, holidays, humour

Harrods at Heathrow
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25 Sep 2015
by joanfrankham
in blog, Ireland, Travel
Tags: beach, Blogging, challenge, e book, help, publishing, self publishing
Any advice for Tric on publishing?
My thoughts on a page.
Okay, deep breath.
It’s not easy to write this without a glass of wine in me but I’m going to (and hope I then press publish). Over a year ago a blog buddy of mine, Duncan,from Madhatters, suggested I put some of my posts together and publish a small ebook for Christmas. He said he would buy it, so that’s one sold anyway. At the time I felt it was way out of my depth and I did nothing.
However a year or more has passed and I’m beginning to wonder if I could. My reasons for doing so are: 1. To learn about the process of self publishing, without putting a precious book I may write some day into the future at risk, and 2. The enjoyment of editing old posts and gathering them together under different titles; possibly parenting, humour, inspiration and stories.
My problem is… where do…
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