tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19906321395450841652012-01-05T20:48:46.857ZJoin me on my travels around the globeJeannettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147761451905017460noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990632139545084165.post-33837967315186704852010-09-25T19:28:00.003+01:002010-09-25T20:18:22.252+01:00

I couldn't get back onto my journal last night and Photobucket was being very uncooperative so I stomped off to bed in a marked manner! Today I thought I'd try to access the internet with Safari and it's worked ~ I can get to every page on Photobucket. I know I've already shown you the first photo of Eilean Donan castle but it was much smaller and harder to see so I've added it again. I love that

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Here I am again as promised! I didn't like the way that the photos turned out last night, they were so small that I decided to add them to Photobucket today and post them through there as I normally do. Photobucket has got antsy and will only show me every other page, trying to tell me that all the even number pages aren't available! I pay for Photobucket Pro, is it too much to expect to be able

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Hi everybody! Long time no see! I've been absent from journals for so long now but after a wonderful trip to Scotland last week I wanted to put some photos up here. The above photo is of Eilean Donan castle which is close to Kyle of Lochalsh. We stayed at Fort William and toured the Western Highlands which includes Glencoe. We also went to Kyle of Lochalsh where the road bridge connects to the

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On Friday 27Th November it was Andy's birthday so we decided to go somewhere special ~ Perth Zoo. It was a beautiful sunny day (again!!) and we set off for the station to catch the train to Perth. The zoo is on the other side of the Swan river which flows through Perth so we had to get the ferry over the river. It was a ten minute walk along to the zoo.This is the Swan Bell Tower which I

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I thought it was about time to add some more photos of Australia. One day we decided to catch the train down to Mandurah (pronounced Manderer). It's about sixty miles south of Perth and has a wonderful bay. It was another hot and sunny day so we set out early. It was a beautiful small town with flocks of wild cockatoos in the trees. It just seems so strange to see them wild rather than trapped in

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The first weekend we were in Australia we decided to catch a bus and visit Scarborough. As my UK readers will know we have a Scarborough in the north of England. This Scarborough was a bit more tropical than our one! We wandered for miles along the beach front and into the sand dunes. It was another beautiful day; I don't think they know what a bad weather day is in Australia! I won't add much

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Hi everyone! Well, I actually had a day off today. When I went back to work on Monday I looked at my roster and saw they had actually booked me to work from Monday till Christmas day with no days off! I went in and asked my boss what was going on and did she really expect me to do twelve days in a row. We agreed I'd have a day off today~ my last one till Boxing Day! Oh well, I'll be able to save

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Hi everybody, sorry I haven't written for ages but life has been so busy. I returned from Australia on Wednesday afternoon. It was a wonderful trip with lots of hot sunshine, unique wildlife and the most wonderful scenery you could wish to see. We set out on 23rd November, it was a cold wet windy day here in the UK. We were soon at Gatwick airport heading out to Dubai where we changed planes and

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I thought I'd post a few more photos while I'm off work and have a little time to myself. Coming to the end of the cruise I'll be posting a few that I missed out. Taking two cameras means two memory cards. Most of the photos I've posted so far were taken with my Canon SLR, these tonight were mostly taken with my Canon compact camera.NCL are a really good cruise line, very much family oriented, it

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I decided to add the photos of Barbados tonight, I was so disappointed with the island, or that which I could see through the torrential rain! I'm sure it looks much better in the sunshine and we were lucky to have only had this one day of rain in a tropical zone like the Caribbean. Still, it would have been nice to have seen the island too! As Lori pointed out, this wasn't the order in which I

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I can't believe it's been over two weeks since I posted the last entry, time is going so fast just lately. I've been meaning to do this entry since Wednesday evening. I came home early from work that night and haven't been back since. I've got a very painful case of plantar fasciitis and have felt so tired I've fallen asleep every time I sat down! Probably because I've just finished three weeks

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I've finally found a few minutes to downlad the photos from St Lucia, a beautiful island with stunning scenery. It was more tropical feeling than the other islands due to it's more 'jungle' type of scenery. We booked a tour of St Lucia so that we could see the highlights of the island. On the tour we visited the beach, the mountains where we got some good views of the whole islands and a

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These are the second set of photos of Antigua, believe me I've got hundreds more!! It was such a beautiful place and was just what I imagined the Caribbean to be like. A steel band greeted us as we disembarked from the ship.We made our way through St Johns, the capital, to see the quaint cathedral in the town centre. Although it was built of stone outside the inside was very different.I loved

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Hi again! I'm adding some of my Antigua photos tonight before I go to bed. I think I've added too many, they won't let me add any more in this entry! I'll add the rest another day.Antigua is a particularly beautiful island and one I've always wanted to visit. My friend at work was born and brought up on Antigua. She married a Scottish man and they often go back to the island to visit her friends

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I thought I'd add a few more photos of my cruise while it's still the weekend (just!). This is Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, it has the most beautiful colour sea surrounding it. It's actually the island setting for Treasure Island, the novel of the same name. It was like arriving in paradise, the colour of the sea just didn't look real! Surely they'd dyed it just before we arrived! Andy

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Hi! Remember me?! It's been so long since I did an entry on here I thought you may have forgotten me! Andy and I came back from our Southern Caribbean cruise this week. It was a fantastic holiday, gorgeous weather, beautiful islands and scenery and a wonderful cruise ship. What more could you want? We flew to Miami and stayed over night at Biscayne Bay at the Marriot hotel. The next day we drove

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I've just started a new journal, the link is Starting over if you'd like to read it. It's replacing my old Welcome To My Travels which I probably won't be using any more. After a long night at work I'm off to bed!

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A lot of you may remember Heather from AOL journals, she used to make great tags, the one below is one of hers. She has a new journal on Blogspot. She's just posted to tell us of her stepfather who has thyroid cancer and has undergone surgery on his spine which has paralysed him. Her mother is struggling to cope with this. Please visit and send prayers over to her at Living The Good Life in Bklyn

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I thought that in the depths of winter you may like to see some flowers! These were outside overhanging my patio at the hotel I stayed in in the desert in Madagascar. It was a wonderful place called Relais de la Reine which means 'the throne of the queen', a French built and owned place set in the desert which reminded me of the American mid west. There are birds there, like the Bensons Rock

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I had a few minutes to spare so thought I'd quickly upload these, well it was a choice between doing the washing up or uploading and the uploading won! Lol!The photo above is the long sandy path we had to walk down to get to the forest, it was 5am and still dark. It really gave our calf muscles a wake up call walking through the sand! The next photo is of the octopus trees, these are covered with

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I've finally got a few minutes to spare to quickly add these photos. Madagascar seems like a distant memory now. the winter has really set in here with temperatures down below zero at night and not rising much in the day.On the day we went to the Spiny Forest we had to get up at 3.30am and leave by 4.30 to get to the forest by daybreak. I almost opted out of it due to the early start but finally

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These are the last of the beach photos that I'll be posting, I think you've got the idea of how beautiful it was there! How I'd love to be there right now instead of cold, wet, gloomy England! I'll get on and run through these before I go to bed. This was paradise! The photo below is of the zebu making their way up the sand dunes, these sand dunes went on forever!A row of rickshaw taxis, they

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Places don't come much more idyllic than this! You'll just have to humour me please while I post all these beach photos! I took hundreds while I was there for a couple of days. It was just so peaceful and beautiful. I won't add much text as I have to get to bed soon, the photos speak for themselves! I love their bright colourful boats. I loved the sun reflected in the water.This was the

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Well, we made it! Here we are in paradise! It'd been a long arduous journey, seeing unimaginable poverty along the way. We were staying three nights at the beach before flying back to Antananarivo where we begun our journey. I'm so glad I picked this tour. Some of the others flew from one destination to another but going by bus you do get to see more of the country. We were told that the people

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I'm adding the rest of these photos while I have time. I've got to spend this weekend doing my NVQ coursework, catching up with the parts I missed while on holiday, then off sick for a couple of weeks. It has to be done by Wednesday. I may not have a chance to add the beach photos for a few days. Next weekend I'm working on Sunday and seeing my grand daughter on Saturday so I'll be very busy

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Hi again, tonight I wanted to add these photos that I uploaded to Photobucket this morning. I don't have a lot of time as I've spoken to my boss and she's agreed to change my shift. We're having problems at work as it's got so busy so I suggested I start earlier, at 10am, and work till 6.30pm. She said no, she wanted me around when my evening staff are there but she agreed to let me start two

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I couldn't resist making the above photo black and white, it just seemed to suit it ~ and Madagascar does seem to still be in a bygone era with no mod cons! We were happy to be leaving central Madagascar and heading for the white sand beaches ~ who wouldn't be?! On our way there we passed villages and red sand plains which had the baobab trees growing on them. The baobab stores water in it's

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No header today. I wasn't intending to do an entry but I've just recieved an email from Donna. I know you've been worrying about her not posting for over a week. I was worried so I emailed her and received this reply:Jeannette... thank you so much for the note... and I do apologize for the worry. Friday after spending time at my sisters and watching the kiddo's trick or treat I came home

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This is my lemur entry. We'd trudged through the desert for six hours to see this troupe of lemurs, of course they were worth it. The little fella above was a very weird caterpillar, about three inches long and with comparatively bigger bushier eyebrows than Dennis Healy! Lol! Can you see the resemblance?! I loved the flame red bush in the next photo, it stood out amongst the harsh desert

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Hi everybody, I've come back to add these photos of the desert at Isalo National Park in Madagascar. I uploaded them to Photobucket this morning while I was getting ready for work so all I had to do was add them tonight when I got home. This was the part of the trip that reminded me of the 'Wild West'. No sign of a wagon train out here but the heat was relentless. We walked for six hours in

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After a couple of attempts and losing my internet connection I finally got back online to get these photos on; the rest of the photos from the last entry. On our drive to the desert we stopped for a picnic lunch in a gap between two mountains. There weren't many trees and I didn't really expect any lemurs to live here although we were assured they did. We walked for a fair way before coming to

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This is my third attempt to add a post so I'm going to do it in two entries. Maybe 40 photos is too many for one entry! As I got to enter the last photo my computer froze and the cursor just started jumping and crackling like a badly tuned in radio! I've been changing the layout of the journal, I prefer this template for showing photos, they come out nice and big ~ much clearer to look at. I had

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Hi everybody, I've logged on to show you some of my photos of Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar. It's been really hard to whittle down two thousand photos to a manageable amount and it takes an age to upload them onto Photobucket; but once that's done it's so fast to put them into the journal page. I guess this site has it's good and bad points! I've also spent two and a half hours editing

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I thought I'd do an entry today on the birds of Madagascar. A lot of them are endemic to the country, some are only found in certain National Parks. To enlarge the photos click on them and they open up larger in a new window.The above bird is a Malachite Kingfisher, I thought he was so pretty I edited him and used him for the header!The bird below in the centre of the photo, not very clear but

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We've got as far as the long journey to Ranomafana It took all day to drive there and nearly as long to post these photos in this journal! We left at 7.30am and arrived about 7pm. We drove through the highlands and down the plateau, stopping for a picnic lunch in a small rain forest where we saw some of the damage caused by the cyclone earlier this year. The scenery on the journey was quite

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I decided tonight to add some of my zebu photos. Zebu are African oxen used in Madagascar to pull ox carts. They're also used for their meat, it tastes like a very rich beef. Their horns are used to make kitchen utensils ~ I brought Andy some home ~ and ornaments. I bought a bird made of Zebu horn ~like the one in the photos below ~ and a small dish. We went to watch this man first heat the horn

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Sorry about the last post, blame AOL, they kicked me offline when I had all my photos up and the text done and ready to paste! I've been adding stuff to my sidebar including this rather pretty crystal clock I found last night. If I've got to stay here I want pretty stuff around me! I don't relish writing all this again but here goes, I thought we were free of the AOL gremlins here on Blogspot!As

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Hi everybody. Just a quick update today. I went to the doctors on Thursday as my chest infection seemed to be getting worse. He gave me antibiotics and said he thought I had pneumonia. It does seem a little better now.I've been playing around with this site and managed to get a Feedblitz widget set up so if you want to you can add your email and get alerts for my entries. Don't ask how I did it,

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Hi everyone! I'm here on Blogger. I shan't be posting very often, I don't like it much, it doesn't feel like home to me after three years on AOL. Maybe in time I'll get used to it. I got home today from Madagascar. It was a great trip once we got going, with a few major hiccups to start with! I was sent to Terminal 4 at Heathrow instead of Terminal 5 so had to get the train to the right

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