Cee’s Mid Week Madness challenge this week is anything featuring the letters Q and U. Quay seemed a good word to play with.
The featured image is from Lopud, Croatia
Looking forward to the day when I can travel the world again and visit beautiful places like these! Hopefully in the early part of next year. It’s been too long.
For October Squares Becky has invited us to post photos of past squares. This is one I never joined in as I didn’t have my blog then!
These are photos from another post that didn’t attract too much attention, so here they are again.
The original post was also titled Laid Back Luang Prabang and we visited in 2016. I would love to go back again one day, I just loved the atmosphere there and the people. It was all very calm and unhurried, so wonderfully relaxing.
Posted as part of Becky’s PastSquares for October
I have decided to go with one of Becky’s suggestions for PastSquares – posts that didn’t receive much recognition. We visited San Sebastian a few years ago when I had just created a blog, so maybe understandable that this post didn’t receive much attention. Below are some of the photos from that trip.
This was a fantastic road trip from Biarritz to Porto. A combination of driving a hire care and hoping on and off Flix buses. Hopefully we can do another road trip around Europe one day.
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Wise words in today’s busy world when everyone is connected to some type of device. For One Word Sunday Debbie has chosen the word Rest.
The photos below are from a few years back when we were in Hoi An, Vietnam.
I’ve never been in a rickshaw as I’ve always felt sorry for the “driver’s” legs. This man has probably earned a good rest after pulling tourists around all day.
These beach workers are taking a break during a quiet time. Look how close the beds are, we met quite a few people lying next to us! You can’t but help overhear the conversations. I don’t think anyone would like to lie so closely together in future.
On our way back to Perth from Kalgoorlie we made a quick stop at Westonia. Just a tiny town off the main highway with a population of under 300. This was a cute little place and I loved the way the people have made the most of the history there.
Established in 1911 by Alfred Weston after the discovery of gold was found in the area. By 1917 there was a population of 2,000. Westonia has won Tidy Towns twice in the last twenty years.
There is a caravan park, a good place for an overnight stay for the “Grey Nomads” travelling around Australia in their camper vans and caravans. Also there is a small gift shop/cafe and Post Office/Supermarket/Cafe.
We hoped to have lunch here but unfortunately they were just closing, but the Post Mistress was there delivering their mail and she very kindly offered to make us some rolls at the Post Office. Country town hospitality at its best.
I’ve used this post to link up with Cee’s Photographing Public Art as I thought it fell quite well under this category!
Thanks for visiting Westonia with me!
Continuing on with our road trip to Kalgoorlie, we left Northam around 10 a.m. after breakfast. Our first stop today was a small place called Meckering.
The most famous thing about this town is the earthquake in 1968, with a magnitude of 6.5 and injuring 28 people. We stopped to look at one of the houses that suffered, the remains have been left as a memory. I don’t suppose for a minute that Mrs. Snooke would have imagined an earthquake in this rural town.
Meckering dates back to 1898 with a population of 225, today it’s not much more at 265.
We had chosen the worst day to travel with dreary grey skies and constant rain, my dear hubby wouldn’t leave the car!
A very brief stop in Cunderdin for a coffee at the Ettamogah Pub. A traditional country pub designed on the ‘Etamogah’ cartoons by the infamous Ken Maynard. Etamogah means ‘Place of a good drink”.
We couldn’t wait to get back in the warm car after a coffee in this very cold pub!
Merridin was next on the trail and fortunately it’s on the silo art trail. The art on this silo was created by urban artist Kyle Hughes-Odgers and extremely impressive.
Time was ticking by now and we really needed to get a move on if we were to arrive in Kalgoorlie before dark.
We stayed at the Rydges Hotel which is about five minutes away from the main town. It seemed to be the best hotel on offer and we had booked two nights here. Tomorrow we will be exploring Kalgoorlie and driving further afield to a ghost town and mine!
Some of the roads we travelled on were indeed under construction!
Some cities from around the world for Debbie’s OWS – Urban.
These are all cities we have visited over the last few years or so. It’s nice to spend a few days in a city but that’s about it for me. I much prefer a beach holiday, relaxing under an umbrella, a swim in the sea and watching the sunset. Da Nang in Vietnam is perfect for both which suits hubby and me down to the ground! He loves a good shop and browse and to tramp along streets unknown, letting his feet take him wherever! We rendezvous later after his explorations are over and to see if he’s found anything interesting worth visiting.
Isn’t it odd that waterfalls are white when water is colourless!
Click on the links to see my travels to these places
My Six Word Saturday Challenge, Water Water Everywhere and White for Jude.
Joining in with Andrew’s Monday Washing Line, mine is from Montenegro. Although I think someone was having a laugh at the expense of people who like to take photos of washing!
I took this fun shot while holidaying in Montenegro a few years back. Such a beautiful country and wonderful food. We actually stayed in Perast, very much quieter than Kotor.
Thanks to Andrew for a very fun challenge.
