Thursday Doors: Chabanais – small doors and more
Another instalment of doors from the Charente town of Chabanais. To begin with, a selection of smaller examples, in varying states of preservation: Next, two doors of broadly similar design but...
View ArticleThursday Doors: (still) Chabanais
We’re not quite done with the doors of Chabanais just yet. To begin with, an empty shop premises that unaccountably got overlooked for the specfic post that featured those all too common doors. This...
View ArticleThursday Doors: Chabanais (the gift that keeps on giving)
And still they keep coming…. This church in the centre of town has an imposing doorway, even though the building itself is not – like most churches – free standing You don’t see that many doors set...
View ArticleThursday Doors – St Junien revisited
Recently we’ve had to spend some time at the hospital in the nearby town of St-Junien. It’s a comparatively modern place, although it replaced an adjacent much older and smaller institution: It’s on...
View ArticleThursday Doors: Tranquility Base again
For the uninitiated, ‘Tranquility Base’ is the nom de plume, as it were, of the little hamlet where we live: eighteen houses (including five holiday homes) and three streetlights – count’em. Amazingly,...
View ArticleThursday Doors: ‘Route 66’
No, it’s not that Route 66. This one is a biker hotel and bar in the nearby village of Bussière-Poitevine. Turn off the road through the village into a small courtyard and you’ll find this small...
View Article52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 22 Stranger
I thought that this rather mysterious painted shopfront in the nearby town of Bellac was suitable for the theme of ‘Stranger’ in Week 22 of the 52 Week Smartphone Challenge. In English, the words over...
View Article52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 30 Exit
This week’s instalment of the Smartphone Challenge is thankfully rather more straightforward than some we’ve seen recently. The theme is ‘Exit’. So that’ll be a door then. Like this rather tatty...
View ArticleArches Of Chartres Cathedral
The three great main doors of Chartres Cathedral are each framed in a whole series of carved gothic arches. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Arches
View ArticleSaint Fillan’s Cave
Is it a door or is it a gate? Let’s compromise and call it a gate in a doorway. This little grotto was said to be the dwelling place of the Christian ascetic Saint Fillan. It’s very small, which is why...
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