Approaching Bergen by Air Bergen is a city of paradoxes. It’s Norway’s second-largest city, but it feels in many ways like a small town. It’s the second-oldest city, but only in a few places does it seem older than 150 years or so. It’s…
It being the day before Good Friday, I thought it timely to share one of my favorite sculptures with you. A major highlight of a visit to the Duomo Museum in Florence is to see Michelangelo’s “The Deposition”, also known as the…
The Palm Sunday as known in the other countrys it’s a well-known holiday, a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter . The feast commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem , an event…
During our first day in Buenos Aires, we took a guided tour of its street art that was run by Graffitimundo , a non-profit organization that promotes street art and artists in this city.
Gumbo was visiting historic Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Through the trees (top photo) he saw the college’s bell-tower (Campanile), better seen in the second photo. The Campanile is one of Dublin’s iconic…
Charles V (Carlos to his Spanish subjects and Karl to the subjects of most of the Holy Roman Empire) built this palace in the Alhambra at Granada; he wanted both to show his power and wealth and to put a Christian stamp on the formerly Muslim…
Visitors here are silhouetted against the Great Clock at the Musee d’Orsay. The museum is housed in a former rail station and hotel; the clock is visible from quite a long stretch of the opposite bank of the Seine.
Copenhagen has its downtown Tivoli, with rides, restaurants and entertainment packed into a glittering core, but Stockholm can match it and maybe then some with Skansen, a large park a short bus or ferry ride from the central city. Skansen, opened in…
“Spain’s National Archaeological Museum reopens to the public on Tuesday after a massive six-year overhaul…” Read more from ‘The Local’, Spain’s English language online newspaper.
Love them, eat them or fear them…the tentacled wonders of the wold (aka squids, octopi and cuttlefish) have a new showcase of their own at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. It’s one of the largest exhibits ever devoted to them, and includes…
Approaching Bergen by Air Bergen is a city of paradoxes. It’s Norway’s second-largest city, but it feels in many ways like a small town. It’s the second-oldest city, but only in a few places does it seem older than 150 years or so. It’s…
It being the day before Good Friday, I thought it timely to share one of my favorite sculptures with you. A major highlight of a visit to the Duomo Museum in Florence is to see Michelangelo’s “The Deposition”, also known as the…
The Palm Sunday as known in the other countrys it’s a well-known holiday, a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter . The feast commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem , an event…
During our first day in Buenos Aires, we took a guided tour of its street art that was run by Graffitimundo , a non-profit organization that promotes street art and artists in this city.
Gumbo was visiting historic Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Through the trees (top photo) he saw the college’s bell-tower (Campanile), better seen in the second photo. The Campanile is one of Dublin’s iconic…
Charles V (Carlos to his Spanish subjects and Karl to the subjects of most of the Holy Roman Empire) built this palace in the Alhambra at Granada; he wanted both to show his power and wealth and to put a Christian stamp on the formerly Muslim…
Visitors here are silhouetted against the Great Clock at the Musee d’Orsay. The museum is housed in a former rail station and hotel; the clock is visible from quite a long stretch of the opposite bank of the Seine.
Copenhagen has its downtown Tivoli, with rides, restaurants and entertainment packed into a glittering core, but Stockholm can match it and maybe then some with Skansen, a large park a short bus or ferry ride from the central city. Skansen, opened in…
“Spain’s National Archaeological Museum reopens to the public on Tuesday after a massive six-year overhaul…” Read more from ‘The Local’, Spain’s English language online newspaper.
Love them, eat them or fear them…the tentacled wonders of the wold (aka squids, octopi and cuttlefish) have a new showcase of their own at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. It’s one of the largest exhibits ever devoted to them, and includes…
