alilou's Adventures in Wonderland - Rarotonga, Oz, Vietnam

[victoriajh]

Alliou, I have been following the blog-!: just found this thread!!!! Oops!! Your trip was a jaunt down memory lane for me and a great read and look too....and if you need to do laundry in vancouver come on over we can talk- about chan !!!!!!lol
Hope that you get to India rested

[alilou]

So glad it brought back some good memories for you.

Think it's more likely I'll get to rest when I get to India

Might take you up on the laundry offer when we're back next May

[Buzz]

Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us Alilou.

[alilou]

You're welcome. Glad you're enjoying it

Lots more to come.............

[alilou]

There's a new blog post done. Once again it's all photographs of people; from all over Italy and Spain.

Click on the pictures to make them bigger.

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Currently in Quebec having a winter family vacation in the snow. Brrrrrrr but lots of fun.

[skatesindreams]

Your photographs are wonderful.
Real "slices of fife".

Thank you for sharing them.

[BelleBway]

Your photographs are wonderful.
Real "slices of fife".

Thank you for sharing them.

^^^this.

[alilou]

Thanks skatesindreams and Belle. I do so enjoy it, but confess I become a bit tense photographing people as I don't want to embarrass them/me. Sometimes it's difficult, and sometimes I'll take 20 or more pics and still not get the shot I want. So in the end a lot of it is pure luck e.g. the girl hitching her bathing suit down. Didn't even know I had that shot until I got it onto the computer. Then again the couple reading the newspapers (on the vaporeto on Venice) I consider one of my better achievements. I sure didn't want them to know I was photographing them, but I kept at it until I got the shot I wanted. So some of it is perseverance, and some of it is just dumb luck

Happy New Year It's 2012! Hope it's a very fine year for all

[Buzz]

Beautiful photos Alilou! Keep it up!

[alilou]

Thanks Buzz. Next pics will be snowy Quebec

[Buzz]

So you are Canada bound eh?! Quebec is beautiful so enjoy! My unbiased opinion of course. hehehe

[alilou]

So you are Canada bound eh?! Quebec is beautiful so enjoy! My unbiased opinion of course. hehehe

We've just gotten back to Vancouver from 2 weeks in Quebec. It was cold but we had a wonderful time, and you're right - it's very beautiful. Should have a new post up soon about our Quebec adventure.

[alilou]

Finally got the post about our Quebec holiday done

Off to India in 3 days!

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[Buzz]

Good luck and hope you enjoy! Looking forward to your posts from India! BTW You misspelt the blog name so the link does not work but never mind I found it anyway.

[skatesindreams]

Finally got the post about our Quebec holiday done

Off to India in 3 days!

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aliiou, "This link does not exist"!

[alilou]

Oops. The first time I don't check the link before posting and I've made a mistake. Anyway it's fixed now.

Also if you have any browser except IE you can open the link in my sig line.

Comments on the blog itself can only be left on the IE link (for some reason to do with Blogger that makes me want to search for a new blog site as soon as I have time).

Anyway it's all good. I've added a bunch more pictures since I first published the latest post so now it's really ready

[skatesindreams]

Thanks for giving me a sense of Winter/Holidays that doesn't exist in Florida!

[pingu]

Wow I'm not used to see so much snow!! I wish we had some of it during Christmas

[alilou]

Thanks for giving me a sense of Winter/Holidays that doesn't exist in Florida!

Ah yes. A true Canadian winter. This is really what it's like up here except for us lucky people who live on the wet, oops, I mean west coast

Wow I'm not used to see so much snow!! I wish we had some of it during Christmas

It's so beautiful isn't it. And very calming at times. But not so much fun when you have to dig yourself out from under.

[alilou]

We finally made it to India! and the latest blog post is done.

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India is amazing!