Hi Folks,
You may recall the interview with Julie Dawn Fox. Julie has now created a great hub website:
My Personal A to Z Challenge
This will be a great place to log your posts in the future and I do hope everyone will support Julie in this great new venture.
via My Personal A to Z Challenge | Inspiring bloggers to get personal.
Please pop along and sign up today!
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I thought Bristol as the next town on my list would be easy, not so. In fact it has been really hard. I have only visited Bristol once as a ‘sightseer’, you know where you spend time actually wandering round and finding things. I did take some good pictures too but as I began to research Bristol I discovered that there are so many things to tell. Bristol has connections dated back as far as Saxon times and was originally known as ‘Bricgstow’. Not difficult to see how the name changed to become Bristol …
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via C is for Cabbages | My Personal A to Z Challenge.
I love Julie’s comment “grass floating in wallpaper paste but actually tastes quite nice”
Pop across to her blog and read more!
B is for Bachata
My A-Z continues with B, and three of my favourite Dominican things. Bailando Bachata, Bibiendo Brugal and Barahona! (Dancing bachata, drinking Brugal and Barahona)
B seems quite “Sexy” in the Dominican Republic!
Check out Lindsay’s post over at What about your saucepans?
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Being an architect, this would be the most logical way to start my A-Z. But I will try not to write too much. For anyone with even a minor interest in architecture, the UK is an amazing place. It is possible to find a diversity of buildings dating from Roman times to modern, living side by side, in an improbable harmony. It may be the wealth, or the need to show the greatness of the empire, or simply the creative minds of someone living in a quite-grey-and-not-that-warm place but the fact is that …
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How does Australia stack up when it comes to crime? After all, crime or rather the lack thereof, is something most people investigate when deciding where to live. While we do make TV dramas about our underworld wars and find our drunken violence in the city streets on the weekends very disturbing and unwelcome, we really don’t have a horrendous crime rate in most areas (there are exceptions in small pockets). During 2010/2011, 359,079 offences were recorded as occurring in Victoria. The total number of …
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia, celebrated on 26th January annually, and as it is only days away, I thought it would be appropriate to tell you how it came to be. On 26th January in 1788, the First Fleet of eleven ships arrived from Great Britain at Port Jackson, which now forms Sydney Harbour. By 1808, the 26th January was being celebrated as ‘First Landing Day’ or ‘Foundation Day’. This day became a public holiday in 1838, being the first public celebrations of the …
Ok, it’s predictable I know, but how could I have a home in the Algarve and NOT love beaches? There’s nothing I like better than an amble along the beach, picking up the occasional shell for the collection. Flat, calm and twinkly in the sunlight, or raging and frothing, I love being beside the sea. So where better than Portugal, with its wrap around beaches, north to south? In theory I could walk the full length, starting off in my treasured Eastern Algarve. Of course, I’d have to swim the …
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Tagged beaches, My country A-Z challenge, My Global A-Z Challenge, Portugal
I knew they were widely available in the Dominican Republic but I had no idea that the DR is actually the 3rd biggest producer of avocados in the world, only Mexico and Chile produce more. The DR has climbed up the rankings since 2008 when it was in 7th place…
Lindsay who lives in the Dominican Republic has joined the “My Country A-Z Challenge”
Please click across and check out her first post A is for Avocado
Please don’t forget to update me on your “My Country A-Z”
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Welcome to my A – Z of Australia A is for Australia Australia, (fondly known as the Land Down Under), is a multi-cultural society of people who share a dream of making a better life in this great land of opportunity. I am one of those people. I emigrated to Australia from the UK many years ago, and found sun, sand, beautiful beaches, amazing rainforests, unique flora and fauna – and a life that I had previously only dreamed about! This country was only settled 223 years ago by the British in 1788, so we …
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