Annual Travel Roundup, Trip to Annecy, ROW80, and Review Contest!
early travel roundup!One of my first posts lasts year was a repost of My Favourite Thing About Turkey. If anyone is looking for a way to help, this charity is a good one.
The rest of the year in travel went like this:
January: visit to a snowy mountaintop
February: annual roundup of travel in Switzerland
the perfect Swiss day!
March: travel questionnaire ("What's the best thing you've ever eaten overseas?")
springtime in our village!
April: Blogging from A to Z April Challenge! It counts as travel, no? Since my theme was all about visiting and celebrating fellow bloggers! And I also shared photos of a concert in Lausanne and a weekend trip to Schwyz!
May: Poems for the Ride
Paris!
June: strawberry picking
photos of various travels part I: Turkey, 2008
photos of various travels part II: Three Pines in Switzerland, 2022
photos of various travels part III: Flowers and trees, 2022
July: Stockholm!
Geneva observatory
Holmfirth
visit to Neuchatel to get Mountie!
August: England part I: Scarborough
England part II: walking on the moors
England part III: London
England part IV: photos by Miss E!
Knitting on vacation
September: summertime in our village!
Nyon
Barcelona part I
Barcelona part II
Barcelona part III
Barcelona part IV
October: harking back to summertime
Port of Founex
trip to Yvoire, France
Founex and views from Geneva
visit to a summery mountaintop
November: boating on Lake Geneva
December: last of the various photos
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Ayse wants all of Hakan at once. His sweet mouth, the heat of his body against hers, their heartbeats slowing together.
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In other news, Reading Wales 2023 is coming up!
A quick ROW80 update:
1. Larksong: I need to finish entering all the edits on paper and finish research [haven't done this yet]
2. A Stitch in Time: I need to edit this thing because... [haven't done this yet]
3. A Stitch in Time Outtake: I need to finish drafting this, so I can possibly issue both stories together! [one scene edited]
4. Montreal: New story that I'm drafting -- this is the main item I'm working on at the moment [30,000 words written plus about 5,000 on another shiny new idea!]
5. The Flight of Time: It's ready to go! I just need to finish the synopsis! [I reeeeeally need to do this]
The most recent trip was a family day trip to Annecy, France! We were very lucky and got the one sunny day in a string of grey days.
First a stop at a phone booth free library...
Where do you like to go on a weekend?
Comments
Thank you, Alex! Do you mean the mountaintop? That's up in the Jura mountains. Or the Annecy stuff? We took the train from Switzerland over to Annecy in France (about two hours). They had a lot more snow over there!
I'm lucky -- the library box is in our village!
Oh, the joy of the shiny new thing... 5K on that and 30K on Montreal is pretty awesome.