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Apologies for the lack of blogging these last couple of weeks (well, it will be a couple of weeks by the time I upload this to the blog), but I’m currently sitting in the shade, enjoying a nice drink, in 29 degrees of sunshine, in France’s Loire Valley. Normally, a family holiday would mean a ban on anything related to computers, strictly enforced by my wife, but the merger between my twin hobbies of photography and computing means that I do need to take a laptop away on holiday with me to at least back up my photos!<\/p>\n

I was pleasantly surprised to find that our fantastic holiday cottage (La Sarmenti\u00c3\u00a8re, in Montsoreau<\/a> – booked via French Country Cottages<\/a>) had a funky Wanadoo.fr Livebox ADSL router<\/a> installed.<\/p>\n

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