Kathryn Burrington's Blog – May 2012 Archive (2)

The 2CV, Paris’ equivalent of the Venetian gondola?

Last weekend, while exploring Paris, just as we caught our first site of the Sacre Coeur, a group of 2CVs drove past. It was a great opportunity to photograph this iconic symbol of France in front of one of Paris’ most famous landmarks.

My first thoughts were that it was an owner’s club…

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Added by Kathryn Burrington on May 29, 2012 at 7:37pm — No Comments

Following in my grandmother's footsteps to Shanghai

In 1927, aged just 23 years old, a beautiful young woman, my grandmother, boarded a boat to China. How can I call myself an intrepid traveller when compared to her?

Today when we plan our travels we have superb television documentaries to watch, wonderfully detailed and colourful guide books to study and a never ending amount of information at out finger tips on the internet telling us all about our chosen destinations. In contrast, my grandmother's prior knowledge of China would have…

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Added by Kathryn Burrington on May 12, 2012 at 5:19pm — No Comments

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