Crêpe menu extract showing three jam options, including "myrtiles sauvages" (wild blueberries).
Sauvages? Ils étaient furieux! #SmithAbroad #EatingLikeCrêpe
Crêpe menu extract showing three jam options, including "myrtiles sauvages" (wild blueberries).
Sauvages? Ils étaient furieux! #SmithAbroad #EatingLikeCrêpe
Smiley orange dog with white snout, belly and paws under a table on a TGV.
Le Chien à Grande Vitesse... #BonChien #GoodBoy #TonguesOutTuesday #SmithAbroad #DogsOfBluesky #Dogsky @groupe-sncf.com
Face-on view of a medieval stone lion from Spain or the Maghreb with a very cheesy grin.
Dit 'fromage'! @ @louvrelens.bsky.social #SmithAbroad
Slight dopey looking griffin fulfilling the function of a bronze medieval water-pourer.
Hello, am griffin, can I help wiv your museum visit? @louvrelens.bsky.social #SmithAbroad
Man in 18th century frock coat and black hat pointing at viewer with mocking facial expression
Le Fonz français @ @louvrelens.bsky.social ... #SmithAbroad #eyyyyyyyyy
Painting on the end of a tall building showing the same woman looking out, in profile, and looking down into a tall tin she had just opened.
Museum label referring to Frank Browne's WWI service as an army "Chaplin" (sic).
Bowler hat not biretta? Compulsory moustache? Sermons in mime to a piano backing? #SmithAbroad #CuratorFails #CofEPeeps ⚓🕯️
Black and white tram and red and white trolleybus
Two red and white trams
* @raquelitae.bsky.social klaxon sounds* ... #SmithAbroad
MacLean family grave, an elaborate affair with a dark stone centre framed by two Norman style arches
Detail of image 1 reading "In memory of Captain John Frederick Smellie AAC The Glider Pilot Regt grandson of the above John McLean killed at Arnhem Sept 1944 aged 30 years."
Unexpected #Arnhem80 content in Priory Cemetery, Holywood just outside Belfast ... #SmithAbroad
*James from Derry Girls voice* I just can't keep up with my 19th century Irish history. I can't tell my O'Donnells from my O'Connells ... #SmithAbroad
Rare event for this semi-jaded theatregoer of *redacted* years standing tonight - first time at the venue and (iirc) first time with this author. #Grania #SmithAbroad
Foot of an apple tree with a label stating its variety as 'Blood of the Boyne'.
Head Gardener: You've named that new apple variety?
Under Gardener: Yeah boss, nice and sectarian like you asked!
Head Gardener: Wait, what ...
#SmithAbroad
Four historic chalices at National Museum of Ireland arranged in height order.
"I am an upper-class chalice. I look down on them..." #SmithAbroad ⚓🕯️#CofE
TFW you're at evensong in another province of the Anglican Communion and they use a different lectionary ... #SmithAbroad ⚓🕯️🇮🇪 #CofEPeeps
Just been called 'buddy' by a bus driver and by a great effort of will didn't reply "What's that, Min?".
#SmithAbroad #IYKYK #TeamCrun
Rising against your colonial masters is so much easier when they almost solely consist of upper class English twits ... (Or, Reflections on a Dublin museum audiovisual) #SmithAbroad
Looking across the street at one of Europe's greatest theatres (at least outside London 😋) choosing from an Uyghur menu. Liberal cosmopolitan elite, moi? #SmithAbroad
Rebel songs (especially "Up The 'RA") land a bit differently when your Hampshire father attended Corrymeela as a young man and you your Kentish self were taken to a post-bombing Royal Marine Band parade aged 5. #SmithAbroad