Tag: Tanks Tuesday

Summer Travel: it’s worth it in the end

This is turning into a Sunday Thing. Experimenting with different types of poetry. But with added photos. Always with added photos. This week, as my contribution to Tanka Tuesday‘s task – to write a 4-11 (the clue is in the name: 11 lines of 4 syllables each – last line repeats the first) I thought I’d focus on summer travel.

Summer travel

was always fun.

But now passport

control (Brexit!);

Covid control;

train strikes and queues;

airport queuing – 

make journeys long

and so irksome.

Worth it though – for

summer travel

And to prove that travel’s always worth it, here’s my photo gallery. There’s just one problem. Most of these photos were taken in January, in February, in March … you get the idea – any month but August …

Bamberg, Germany
Deoksugung: the Palace of Vituous Longevity, Seoul, South Korea
L’Etang des Druides, Ariège , France
Gdansk, Poland
La Mezquita , Córdoba , Spain
Mamallapuram, India
Near Montségur, Ariège , France
The Alhambra, Granada, Spain
St. Naum Monastery, North Macedonia
Storks in Tudela, Spain
Fish market in Busan, South Korea
The East Wall Gallery, Berlin.

… Should have travelled by elephant …?

Temple elephant, Thanjavur

PS – the header photo was taken at l’Albufera, near Valencia, Spain.