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Some random potential postcard images.
Eastern Beach
Geelong
The Twelve Apostles
Lochard Gorge
Corio Bay Sunrise
Geelong
Geelong
Ferris Wheel
France
One-Word-Sunday-Old-Older-Oldest
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old
made or built long ago
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Construction of the Palace of Versailles began in 1661
some 55 years after Willem Janszoon first sighted
Australia and just over 109 years before
Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay.
Older still is the
Schönbrunn Palace
construction of which
commenced in 1642
The oldest of this post is
The Colosseum.
Construction of The Colosseum
began in 70AD and was completed in 80 AD
Which in 2021 makes
The Colosseum
1950 years old
since completion
We were told, these pavers,
are part of the original building.
Imagine, nearly 2,000 years since completion,
the sheer number of feet to have walked over them
and who, in history may have walked here.
The Colosseum is definitely my oldest building
in my old, older, oldest post this week.
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One Word Sunday Challenge:...Old-Oldest
WeeklyPrompts-PC-Straight-and-Narrow
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Straight and narrow streets of
The Shambles and St. Paul de Vence
Saint Paul de Vence,
Nice,
France.
Saint Paul de Vence,
Nice,
France.
Straight and narrow streets of…
…The Shambles
York
The United Kingdom.
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Weekly Prompt Photo Challenge: Straight-or-Narrow
Cee-BW-Challenge-Landscapes
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Cee’s
Black and White Challenge.
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Geelong sunset.
Beachscape
A landscape or the result of landscaping?
Many South West Victorian farms have
changed their landscape from one
which grazed sheep and cattle to one
which grows trees and is far less intensive.
A little over 100 years ago this idyllic
French landscape would have appeared
anything but idyllic as Villers Bretonneux
was in the middle of some of the
heaviest fighting of World War I.
As the sun goes down…
…near Geelong.
Yearling Herefords
Spring sown canola crop on its way to maturity.
Canola in flower
Saint Kilda Pier
Moorabool Valley eucalypts.
In the distance are
The Grampians.
The southern end of
The Great Dividing Range.
Moorabool Valley
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Cees-BW-Photo-Challenge: Landscapes
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Flag
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flag
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The Australian flag among others in the
Arras Railway Station
France.
Australian flag.
I think these flags are outside the
United Nations building in Brugge,
Belgium.
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Word of the Day Challenge:…Flag
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FOWChallenge-Upper
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upper
* situated above another part.
* situated on higher ground
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The Upper part of a shoe is tht part which surrounds the sides and ttop of one’s foot
At the Battle of Bullecourt allied armies
had to attack the German army which
was situated on the higher (upper) ground.
There was little or no way for allied soldiers to
gain any protection from German bullets
on these open fields.
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge:..Upper
Pic-and-Word-Challenge_Wk270-Geometry
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geometry
the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points,
lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogues
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Geometry in a Beaune,
Wine Cellar
France.
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Pic-and-Word-Challenge_Wk269-Geometry
Cee-BW-Challenge-Steps
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The Grand Staircase at Paronella Park
in Far North Queensland.
The steps with plaques
mark flood levels.
Steps at St. Paul de Vence
in France.
Melbourne steps are closer to home.
Southern Cross Station Steps
in Melbourne.
Same steps, different view.
I usually take the escalators either side
of these steps.
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Cee’s Black & White Challenge:...Steps-Ladders
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FriendlyFriday21-2901-Special-Treats
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Visual treats
Visiting Notre de Dame de Paris was a real treat…
…made all the more special after the Cathedral…
…was ravaged by fire with 12 months.
I guess I have seen the Eiffel Tower…
…lit up in movies, however seeing it
in person was fantastic.
The Moulin Rouge was also a
must see in Paris.
I doubt that even in my younger days
would I have gone fishing
in the vicinity of white water…
…let alone the white water of Victoria Falls.
An optional helicopter flight over Victoria Falls…
…to view the effect the rushing waters of
the Zambezi River has had on the landscape
leaving previous falls sites high and dry.
A goodbye London special treat was
a ride on the London Eye.
Well worth the time for some nice views of London…
…after dark.
Finally…
…after hearing my Father speak of Menin Gate
from time to time, I was pleased to find
a tour group that included a visit
to Menin Gate in its
Western Front itinerary.
So it was that in early June of 2017,
before a relatively small crowd, I was
part of the ceremony that commemorates
the Great War each and every night.
Three local buglers performed the last post
in a simple but moving ceremony at Ypres’
Menin Gate, in Belgium
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FriendlyFriday:...Special-Treats
Amanda Sandi
Cee’s-FFChallenge-Stacks-or-Blocks
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Stone stacks, made by tourists,
along the Great Ocean Road.
