We just arrived home from a lovely few days in Paris. We managed to find some reasonably priced flights to Paris, and Ernest, who was in Athlone for a while kindly invited us to stay with him.
August is a funny time to visit Paris because it is the month when Parisians go away on holiday! Many of the shops and restaurants (apart from the city center) were closed up. However it is a good time to visit as it isn’t quite as busy as maybe July.
The Metro and bus system are brilliant – so easy and cheap to whizz around the city. And in Paris there is always so much to see and do. We must have walked for miles and miles over the last few days!
Highlights for us were sharing our visit with Ernest, meeting some of his friends, and some of ours, and also eating some great French food! The French really know how to do food, although they have a lot to learn about service from the Americans
We had some delicious pastries, coffees, ice creams and lunches in some of the many street bistros. We also ate one night at this lovely restaurant – “Bistro Des Dames“.
Last Monday we spent a couple of hours in the beautiful gardens of Birr Castle Demesne.
For anyone visiting the area, this is well worth a visit. The gardens are relaxing and beautiful, and the museum is really interesting!
It was a lovely warm sunny afternoon, and the spring flowers were in full bloom! I was looking forward to taking out my “big” camera to get some more flower shots..
I found another great competition to enter but I need your help…
I asked Michelle if I could use her photo below of Lily in the snow last year – the theme is “Full of Life” and it is to be a winter photo.
So the 4 photos with the most votes are judged by a panel – and the winner gets €10,000. Wow what a prize!!! So you can vote for this photo if you are in Ireland, and you can vote once per day.
We have been having one of the coldest winters ever in Ireland. The temperatures have dropped to -17 in some places, and the lowest we have seen here is about -12! Even in Malmo we would have considered that cold!
It makes life a little difficult though – some of the country roads are impossible to drive on, and as you can imagine, it’s not easy for a window cleaner to be able to work when the water just freezes on the windows!
On the upside though, we have seem some spectacular scenery – sunshine, no wind, blue skies.. and best of all, a frozen lake!!! As I was not working today, I had the chance to dig out my rarely used ice skates and take a spin on the lake! I was so excited as it has been more than 10 years since I was last ice skating. I am definitely very rusty, but I managed not to fall over at least! I think I will just have to go out again tomorrow and practice a bit more!
Canon Digital Ixus 200 IS in Turquoise. Brand new in box. Not even taken out of it’s packaging.
24mm ultra wide-angle 5.0x zoom lens with optical IS
12.1 Megapixel CCD
Widescreen 3.0” PureColor II Touch display
Easy touch-screen camera operation
720p HD movies
Sold for €280 + delivery on Pixmania.ie (€380 RRP on Canon site)
ALSO INCLUDES – original Canon leather case (worth at least €20)
AND 4GB Sandisk Ultra memory card in unopened packaging (worth around €15)
Selling everything for €200
For collection in Athlone, Co.Westmeath OR registered post at extra cost to buyer.
Reason for sale – It’s a beautiful little camera that I won as a prize – I would keep it apart from the fact that I already have 2 Canon cameras that I love!
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We just arrived home from a lovely few days in Paris. We managed to find some reasonably priced flights to Paris, and Ernest, who was in Athlone for a while kindly invited us to stay with him.
but I need your help…
