From the kitchen we wandered out into yet another courtyard.

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I don't think I've ever seen anything like this chapel. By now I've been in quite a few Italian churches full of painting on every available square inch of space. But this one was just full of light by comparison.

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In the entrance hall where you buy your ticket.

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I have a large collection of photos that I took in October 2011 and never got around to posting here. As it's Saturday night and I'm doing nothing at all, I'm going to try to catch up a bit ( Read more... )

Some pictures taken as we came down the mountain after our snow adventure. A lot of the higher landscape is very barren, but is still used to graze cattle in the summer months.

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At the end of the first day of the workshop we went on an excursion to the Christmas market

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I've been meaning to post this picture for ages. There are many unpleasant aspects to Aboriginal life in the Northern Territory, and also in Darwin. Mostly in Darwin they seem to be related to alcoholism and the sometimes life-threatening behaviours (like lying down to sleep in the middle of somebody's driveway, domestic violence, etc.) and poor ( Read more... )

I confess that before I went there, I had no idea that Bonn was on the Rhine. I found it out by studying the map in my hotel room, so the next morning I went for a walk to see it - the famous river that I'd never seen before. There were little patches of snow lying around and puddles that were essentially ice, so I had to walk rather gingerly ( Read more... )

Bloody hell! It's 45 here now (114F).

ETA. Just heard on the radio that it hit 45.7, which makes it the hottest day on record. The previous record was in 1939.

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As I was leaving Italy a couple of weeks ago and waiting on the platform at Napoli Centrale, I noticed that the FrecciaRossa (Italian TGV) coming into the station was being driven by a woman. I was infatuated with trains as a small child, but soon learned that train driving wasn't for girls, so it was a kind of extra pleasure to see that.