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Throwback Thursday – Queen Victoria: Pomp, and Pigeon Poop.

“It’s puerile to snicker at this piccy of Queen Vicky with a pigeon pooping on her head. Doesn’t stop me doing it, though!”

February 4, 2021 in Arts, Travel, travelpics.

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. Walls, and forts, and curtains …

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. The city of Valletta was built, as we’ve mentioned, in the mid 1500s after the Great Siege by the Ottomans. The Turks had set up on what is now Valletta and  bombarded Fort St Elmo – eventually they were repulsed, but not until the fort had been all…

February 5, 2017 in Comment, Travel, travelpics.

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. Built from scratch

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. And I thought San Francisco’s streets were steep! Valletta is a lovely city to look at – full of history, and culture, and religion. But unless you are a mountain goat, there are some streets that are .. lets call them a challenge 🙂 Like the Triq-L-Ifran, or…

February 4, 2017 in Comment, Travel, travelpics.

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. On the Waterfront…

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. And for Thursday, the Floriana waterfront. The waterfront here was initially developed with stores or wharves on the left (the Pinto stores seen here), and the Forni stores to the right (out of shot here, but you can see them in a #travelpic from earlier this week) In between…

February 3, 2017 in Comment, Travel, travelpics.

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. We are not amused :-)

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. OK, I shouldn’t laugh. Yes, I am a republican, and would like to see Australia cut its ties to the British monarchy. But I admit, it’s puerile to snicker at this piccy of Queen Vicky with a pigeon pooping on her head. Doesn’t stop me doing it, though…

February 2, 2017 in Comment, Travel, travelpics.

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. Elevating the view.

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. I remember once being told that “You don’t want to see how sausages are made, or you will never eat another snag!” Well, today you get to see how the sausages of our #Travelpics photos are made. The pictures we choose are all from those shot by either…

February 1, 2017 in Comment, Travel, travelpics.

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. Churches, Cathedrals and Chapels, Oh My …

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. Valletta, like all of Malta, is quite religious .. after all, this is supposedly where St Paul was shipwrecked around 60AD – he was being sent to Rome as a political prisoner, but his ship was pounded ashore by storms at Malta. The locals apparently took him and…

January 31, 2017 in Comment, Travel, travelpics.

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. Saluting its bravery

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta.   Valletta is the capital of Malta, a small republic about 80km south of Italy which has been at the crossroads of empires for millennia. Malta has been strategically important for traders and military forces from the Phoenicians and Carthaginians to the Greeks, the Romans, to Byzantine and…

January 30, 2017 in Comment, Travel, travelpics.

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