View from Oban Bothy

View from Oban Bothy

Wednesday 9 October 2019

September 2018 Pt1

Via de la Plata from Ourense to The End
We left Ourense in the not-very-early(ish) morning, the day was forecast to be very hot so we wanted to get a move on.

Ourense is known for it’s knockers
We breakfasted on coffee and a bocadillo each at a roadside cafe, after which we followed footpaths and very quiet country lanes for a good few miles. And even more kilometers.
A tired hórreo
No idea
To Cea….and a most magnificent lunch:
 …at a very odd but very welcoming eatery that not only served excellent food, but also Scalextric sets, and quite a lot of other stuff that you’d not expect to see in a restaurant!
Leaving the restaurant behind was something of a struggle, we more than full which made for even slower walking.
We were now heading to our bed for the night at the Cistercian monastary at Oseira.
The monastary was very large and very old, it dates back to the 12th Century. Sadly it only housed 11 monks – I wonder how long it can continue with such low numbers. In days gone by I expect it would have been home to 100+.
On approach to the monastary

The monastary albergue:



Our digs for the night – it would easily sleep 60+
The dorm had showers and a washing machine. It felt damp and was unheated – it wouldn’t have been much fun in the winter. In busy periods it wouldn’t have been particularly restful, every burp and fart echoed around the cavernous hall.
We attended Vespers in the evening – a quiet affair with maybe 20 – 25 in attendance.
A few more photographs of the monastary:


Rob leaving the monastary and looking for breakfast
There was nowhere near for breakfast next morning, so we were away for around 7am and so began a search for food….and coffee.
Anyway, enough of this drivel, here’s some photos from this next section of our walk into Santiago de Compostela:

For Alan R:
Our bedroom in the albergue that night:




More to follow in Pt2


Another Open Live Writer update

…and this one works at the moment.

The ongoing Google / Blogger / Open Live Writer palaver has put many bloggers off posting of late – and that includes me.

A not-very-well publicised (and not entirely straight-forward installation process) OLW update seems to work – for now.

To update:

R Click on the existing OLW icon, select ‘Properties’

Click ‘Open File Location’ to open an Explore folder/

Rename ‘Update’ or ‘Update.exe’ to ‘OldUpdate’…keeping ‘.exe’ if present.

Go to http://openlivewriter.org/ and download the latest OLW.

To post photographs it is essential to first save them in Google Photos and then cope and paste from there.

That all works for me on Win7 using Firefox.


Once again, many thanks to Dave Burdick who has come up with this solution. 


Addendum:

This worked for a while today.

Photos were posted into my blog and the were successfully published.

A few hours later all the photographs had disappeared……and now they’ve come back again.

Is this Google deciding that they don’t want anyone to post photographs unless they use their ghastly Blogger?



Another test

Using the updated (?) OLW



…and it works!

For now.

Monday 7 October 2019

Sunset this evening

Image

Taken at 6.45pm this evening, using my slightly creaky Samsung S5 phone.

This post has been edited: my normal 'post by email' failed.

As Conrad pointed out, the only image visible was a small box entitled 'Image' but no image was visible.

The image is (hopefully) visible now because I downloaded the photograph from my phone, directly to my PC, then pasted the image into the posted via Blogger.

Wednesday 24 July 2019

Posting photos into Blogger using OLW

Clouds over Manchester Airport t’other night:

More clouds:

From Vierdaagse:

Method of posting photos from OLW into Blogger:

Ensure photos to be used are saved in Google Photos.

Create post using OLW as usual.

To paste photos into OLW:

Go to Google Photos

Click and open the photo to be used, then ‘Copy Image’

(It’s important that you actually open the image, don’t just click on it)

Copy & Paste the photo into OLW

Post to blogger when ready.

Job done



With grateful thanks to Dave Burdick in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

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