I decided to create a new blog for my holidays this year to keep things separate from my main blog. I'm going to try an post regularly while on holiday but it will depend on when I can get a wifi connection on my iPad. I'm going to be using my Kodak Playsport to take the pics and then do some basic processing on the Camera+ app. I've found that I'm not able to edit the blog using the normal editor for Blogger within Safari (it crashes when I try to publish) to I'm going to use BlogPress instead. One thing I need to edit after the initial posting is the photo size as it creates them at the small size by default and I prefer them a bit bigger.

After a bit more testing I've abandoned Camera+ because it keeps crashing when I try to save my edited photos so now I'm using PhotoForge2 which seems a lot better and has a lot more editing options. I've also found that when I add photos to the post in BlogPress that I can resize them within the editor so that makes things a lot simpler.

Posting the photos separately as the slow connection is causing BlogPress to time out I think.

Saturday, 27 August 2011

Strange Desk Ornament

This strange thing was on the desk in our room at the Hotel L'Anglettere in Versailles.

Orangery at Versailles

Here's the Orangery gardens and the open door in the right corner. The gallery we walked along inside is out of shot on the right but looks similar to the part straight ahead but much longer.

Versailles Cat

Lynne stroking the stray cat in the palace gardens.

Sculpture at Versailles

This was a sculpture in the kings garden.

Versailles from the garden

Versailles Main Entrance

Walking up to the main entrance, the gold bits were very shiny so they must have cleaned them recently.

The Castle at Loches

View from the old dungeon.