In starting to unpack my suitcase I see brochures from places like the bateau mouche in Paris, or from Chenonceau Chateau, or about Orta, bringing back memories of wonderful times in fabulous places a world away in distance and experiences.

As I get time to go through my Paris photos, I’ll upload those to this web site, soon.

Thank you so much to all of our friends and family around the world who kept us in your  thoughts and prayers while we were traveling.  I could feel the Hand of God protecting us.

It was a memorable time, a highlight of both of our lives.  I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to have the time with my dear Mum, to explore all those places together.

• Looking at the Loire set of photos (which you can choose “View as Slide Show”), or,
• By clicking on More Photos on the right side of this page.

We had a lot of rain, cold days, so the photos are not brilliant, but hopefully they’ll be enough to give you an idea of the beauty of the area.

What the photos don’t show are the pretty country roads, just because it was difficult to capture (and find a place to stop to do that!). Imagine winding through quiet country roads, through rolling hills with fields or vineyards, and the prettiest of villages every few kilometres, and that was what we saw of the Loire.

Enjoy!

The new photos were taken with my camera. I’ve also included the photos already loaded (taken and sent from my Nokia N95 phone).

As you can probably tell, I absolutely loved Orta, and the area around it!

The photos are here:

• Orta photos (one option from there is to click on the View as Slideshow option at the top right of the photos)
• Or, by clicking on More Photos in the right column of this page