The purpose of today’s post is not only to share a few photos of my recent trip to Lyon but also to celebrate overcoming the technical challenges presented by creating a slide show. I’d spotted the slide show feature on a blog (sorry I can’t remember which one) a couple of weeks ago, and thought what a brilliant idea. Fortunately for me, and I am sure I can speak for a lot of other non-techie bloggers, WordPress is quite user friendly. So after “fiddling” for several hours I hit on the solution. It may not have been “conventional” as I added the html code myself, but it worked!
Et Voilá another blogging mystery solved.
Yes, I am easily pleased and as you can probably tell I don’t get out much.
Regarding my “snapshot” tour of Lyon I can only say while I appreciated the architecture, the wonderful selection of shops, novel loos, expensive coffee (not), gridlocked traffic (not) it was great to return home where a traffic jam consists of four cars, coffee costs one euro, the air is not polluted and I can just gaze out to sea as the sun sets over the Ocean. Peace…
Are you a townie or a country girl at heart?
Piglet in Portugal 
What a wonderful idea!! I’m going to go see if I can figure out how to do this as well! I started fiddling with a slideshow the other day but there was some reason why it wasn’t displaying correctly so, you have once again inspired me to “press on!”
I’m a country girl all the way baby! 🙂
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You’re officially my ‘how do I do this on WordPress’ person now…
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Hi Lee,
I think my daughter may find this funny as I am the least “techie” person imaginable!
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Great post…and I loved the Turkish loo – in France! Mind you, it looks pretty clean compared to some loos I’ve visited on my travels (I won’t go into to many details, suffice to say a bucket of water was required to wash away the sea of smelly stuff that covered the floor before I could venture any nearer the hole in the ground – let alone use it!)
Great slideshow – well done for figured it all out. If you have the instructions written out , I’d really love a copy – thanks a million!
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That’s a great post Piglet! I can see this getting you another shot at the daily/weekly posts page.
Good luck!
– Papa Joe
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Hi Papa Joe, thank you for your kind words but lightening is unlikely to strike twice in the same place 🙂
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Can I hit the “like” button over and over to help? 🙂
– Papa Joe
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Hats off to you PIp…I would not even attempt this. My DIL(new Attitude) does these slide shows…I must really get her to give me a lesson.
she is coming aroung this evening…I must remember to lock away the red wine…and then forget where I have put the key!
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I will email you the instructions…later 🙂 keep the red wine out 🙂
I am just cooking Rose’s cake at mo…trying to decide on shape and size of cake tin…hope it’s not in the middle of the night Rose and you pick up my email 🙂
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Love your slide show, maybe you’ll spare me a minute or so to tell me how to do? Also, would you mind if I used some of your pics on my blog (credit would be given 😉 )?
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My pleasure fellow piglet! I will send some pictures by email along with instructions on how to make a slide show. It certainly saves space and would also be good for using with recipes etc
The impression looks a little different if you just go to the home page…you may may need to make the first picture of the post static…I need to experiment with this further…wordpress is like a voyage of discovery 🙂
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wow! I’m impressed by your technical prowess, didn’t even know you could do slideshows! Thanks, I will look forward to receiving!
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Nice work lady!!! 🙂
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The pictures are absolutely beautiful! And I’m impressed that you learned to do a slideshow! I’ve still got some other blog basics to learn, but, one of these days…As to the city or country girl question: count me as country girl, for sure.
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The slide show is cool. I may need to look into that one of these days! Good job. I love the caption “View from the ‘Turkish Loo’ Cafe”. Too funny!
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Beautiful photos. You’re talented at capturing the right shot. 🙂
I like your slide show. It looks really techie to me. 😉 ~applause~
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Thanks EC it was really easy once I figured it out. I think it would be great to use with cookery or craft shots where you are showing different processes
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Beautiful pictures, and thanks, I have to try this for myself.
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Thanks athursdayschild. It was so easy once I had worked out what code I need to add 🙂
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Wow Rose that was a quick response – were you sitting by the phone LOL 🙂
I feel pretty chuffed at persuading the slide show to work 🙂
I am def not a city girl – OK to visit but the noise and air pollution is awful…
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I knew you were busy working on your post and I had been doing some reading. When I saw it come in I had to come check it out. It looks great!
😉
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Hi Pip, congrats on the slide show. It looks great with your beautiful photos. I think I have a little of both in me. Like the city but I think I would love to live in the country with wide open spaces and plenty of fresh air. 🙂
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