The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. Ah, St Mark’s, the home of the 18-dollar coffee 🙂 In St Mark’s Square, Venice, there are a series of cafes. If you go inside and order a coffee at the bar it will cost you around a €1…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. The Altare della Patria is a controversial building in Rome. Known as “The Typewriter” by many because of its design, the stark white ‘Altar of the Fatherland’ is dedicated to Victor Emmanuel II – the first king of modern Italy – and…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. They say that there are only two things in life that are guaranteed: death, and taxes. But to that, I would add ‘traffic jams’. Even (or perhaps especially) on the water, when you get differing transport options sharing the same…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. This is the outside of St Peter’s Basilica, which (strictly speaking) isn’t in Rome. Why? Because it’s in the Vatican – a separate state that is wholly within the confines of Rome. Vatican City State, to give it the…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. Venice is not just about gondola rides. It’s also about magnificent glass, and centuries of art – and about masks. The mask is synonymous with Venice, and the Carnival of Venice – which dates back around 950 years. When we were…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. One of the things that you find, when you visit Rome, is that you can aim your camera almost at random, and get a great picture. This one, for example, is of the ‘Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. We can’t be certain that is picture is from Italy – it’s possible that we were still over France at this stage – but I don’t believe so. Other photos that we took a few minutes earlier show us passing what…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. When you go to Venice, you simply have to take a Gondola ride. Yes, it’s cheesy. Yes, it’s cliched, Yes, it is only for tourists. But you still have to take a ride – because, well, it’s Venice, dammit! 🙂…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. To be honest, the only time we have spent in Italy is in Rome, and in Venice – plus travelling to-and-from – but even those two cities were amazing. We’ll start with Rome and this magic view of the Colosseum…
The theme for our travel pics this week is H, for Hoi An. The final pic in our series is of a local woman carrying fruits for sale in baskets, or Thúng, on a caryying pole, while wearing the Nón Lá or traditional conical hat. She volunteered to pose for the photo saying no payment was…
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