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I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
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Storybook, indeed. Where did you take this? how special!
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It is in the Loire valley in France. The whole area was picturebook.
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oh wow the stories that could come from this 🙂
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Yes they’d go back quite a number of years.
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Castle!!! *swoon* Where is this one?
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This one is in the Loire Valley. History everywhere
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I searched for “Loire Valley” and “castles” came up. Looks like I’ve got a new destination for my someday travel list.
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Something to look forward to.
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This coould make a great painting. Where?
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If you can paint it would be great. It is in the Loire Valley in France.
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Gorgeous! Is this in Begium or France????
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France along the Loire.
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A fairy castle on the river.
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That is for sure
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Very romantic. 😀
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Yes you can just see the women in their cone hats with tassell wandering around being rescued by their knights in shining armour. 🙂
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That’s a nice-sized castle…not too large! 🙂
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Yes cleaning wouldn’t be too big a problem. XD
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I don’t know. It’s a distance shot. 😉
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This would be the perfect castle; beautiful structure, surrounded by a mountain landscape, but also by a body of water. Your picture is gorgeous!
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Absolutely perfect, fairytale type castle. The kind that you see on Disney movies but never see in real life – that is unless you go to the Loire valley.
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Straight out of a fairytale!
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Rapunzel I think
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Very storybook – could be miniature! Just saw your answer as to where it is…I wondered Germany at first. Just beautiful 🙂
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Yes it really is a storybook castle and we came upon it quite unexpectedly after I had made a monumental discovery to get around no toilet facilities in France. But that is another story….. 🙂
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Haha…and one I would love to read one day 🙂
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One day 🙂
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