The Loire Valley and especially Blois
This is the beautiful home exchange where we’re staying in Adelaide. I don’t know what period it comes from but I love the design, not to mention the garden. Voici la belle maison à Adelaide où nous faisons un échange-maison. Je ne sais pas de quelle époque elle date mais j’adore la réalisation sans parler …
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Nambucca Heads’ fascinating street mosaic comprises some thirty metres of tiled artwork beside the footpath which passes in front of the Nambucca Heads Police Station. Artist Guy Crosley and a team of local volunteers scoured the district for cast off tiles, pottery, china and other knick-knacks which were then cleverly “embroidered” into the spectacular streetscape you can …
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When we got out of the car to admire this view of Nambucca Heads where the Pacific Ocean meets the Nambucca River, we heard a woman say, “This must be the best view in Australia”. It’s certainly very beautiful. Lorsque nous sommes descendus de voiture admirer cette vue de Nambucca Heads où le Pacifique rencontre …
Today, we took the Ocean Road walking path from Korora Bay to Digger Beach, north of Coffs Harbour and found ourselves on this incredible walkway. If a man in a nearby house had not called out to us to take the staircase, we would never have imagined we could! Aujourd’hui nous avons emprunté le sentier pédestre de …
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This kookaburra was sitting on the fence while we were having our coffee this morning in Coff’s Harbour while the galahs were at the feeder in the tree a little further down. Ce kookaburra trônait sur la clôture ce matin pendant que nous prenions notre café ce matin à Coff’s Harbour pendant que les galahs se …
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I love this mobile coffee and snack van we saw at the Armidale farmers’ market. J’adore ce vendeur mobile de café que nous avons vu au marché d’Armidale.
This lovely old house has been built in several stages starting with the central part in the 1880s. The colour of the bricks is always a clue to the construction date. The beautiful garden laid out in front is still magnificent. It has had several owners including a mail contractor who built the stables below …
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Armidale on the New England Tableland, is a lovely university town of 20,000 people where constructions cannot be more than 2 stories high (ground + 2). This is a newly constructed house in a beautiful wooded setting that blends in perfectly with the rest of the local architecture. Armidale, qui se trouve sur le plâteau …
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Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010 . It was a convict penal settlement from 1839 to 1869 and one of Austalia’s biggest shipyards, operating between 1857 and 1991 with the first of its two dry docks built by convicts. L’île de Cockatoo dans la baie de Sydney …
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After the Harbour Bridge yesterday, here is Sydney’s second icon – the Opera House. Après le pont “Harbour” ici, voici le deuxième icône de Sydney : l’Opéra.