Travel Theme: Endearing

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This week, Ailsa, at Where’s My Backpack, invites us to share Endearing photos. I found the ones below pretty endearing.

We spotted each other from a distance as she strolled with her Mum through the Piazza San Marco, in Venice, Italy
This one was way too big to be bathing on such a small fountain, but look at those eyes…!
This pooch won me over when he decided it was time for a nap right in the middle of the Venice Pier.
What serious shopper wouldn’t find this endearing? “Early Bird” sculpture, Ojai, CA.
Kaya was not feeling well and just wanted some peace and quiet. Awww, baby….
This little stray cat sat next to me as we had lunch at a beach restaurant in Jericoacoara, Brazil. Who could resist those eyes?!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Metal or the Season of Autumn

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Autumn in my old neighborhood in Potomac, MD, a suburb of Washington D.C.
Our house on the right, just next to the woods.
Artwork at Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA.
Bicycle gear sculpture. Venice, CA.
Artwork at the Venice Beach Boardwalk.

See other Metal and Autumn entries to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge here.

Travel Theme: Meeting Places

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Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week is Meeting Places.

Men meet and hangout outside the marketplace in Bamako, Mali. DSCN1058

In beautiful Siena, the Piazza Del Campo is a definite meeting place, where both locals and tourists converge to sit and talk, eat, or just admire the beauty of the place._DSC0643

Young people in Venice, Italy, get together by the water for a beer and some idle talk._DSC0509

In Brazil: A View From Above

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I’m in Brazil visiting family and enjoying the 2014 World Cup. Here’s a taste of my hometown, Fortaleza, one of the host cities for the World Cup matches. This is the view from our condo.

And here’s a video prepared by FIFA about Fortaleza. Similar videos were prepared for all 12 hosting cities.

Travel Theme: World Cups

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Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week is World Cups, so as one might expect, this Brazilian football fan immediately associated it with one of the greatest sports events in the world: FIFA’s World Cup. The tournament, which happens every four years in June/July, is being hosted by Brazil this time around, and I am here enjoying the excitement and agony of the thirty-two participating national teams and their adoring fans. As the tournament reaches its half point, sixteen teams have been eliminated and the remaining sixteen are going through the knockout phase, with nail-biting matches happening every day. The excitement is only beginning! So, what else could my take on the “World Cups” theme be?

And it is a rather biased one, I’m afraid!

Travel theme: World Cups