So serious, so fierce.
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Lemonade in Paris
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Monet at Musée Marmotton
Two for one Monet day. Once again, you can get so close to these things. You can’t photograph them, but you can look: you can look and draw. Filed under:…
Laundry in Venice
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Ice cream in Paris
“Hell is riding, endlessly, a bus through different parts of the city, looking all the same, indistinguishable one from another, for the best ice cream, near the house of Victor…
Orvieto
If you get a chance to bop around Italy, don’t overlook the villages and towns outside the major well known ones. Orvieto was on our route, so we planned a…
At the Trevi Fountain
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The heat, the cake, the Cappucino.
The cappuccinos, the dehydration, the heat and the crowds make you very dizzy. To top that off, the church facades are all sweet cakery decoration. Stop putting crap on your…
The foot of Fortitude, by Botticelli
No one lingered to worship at the feet of this masterpiece, but all rushed on to gawk at the Birth Of Venus, roped off from at least 6 ft away.…
The foot of Faith by Piero Del Pollaiolo
I’ll be posting in some kind of loose random reverse order images from the trip. Here, Piero Del Pallailo’s foot of the figure of Faith. Once again, rooms in the…
Ariadne at the Uffizi
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Ucello’s Santa Monica at the Uffizzi
After drilling my eyes into The Battle Of San Romano panel, I turned to the right and found the Santa Monica. Charmed again, then saw it was also, as I…
Galileo at the Uffizzi
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The David outside the Uffizzi
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Police station, Venice, at Rialto
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Cycling in Paris
Spotted this elegant young woman riding her bike in Paris. Filed under: art
Thoughts on traveling gadgets
If you are planning on using your iPhone as a camera consider bringing a battery pack for it. You can easily exhaust the built-in one in a day. HDR sucks…
Travel packing rules
1) no books 2) no books 3) no books 4) fewer clothes 5) more money 6) no books 7) no books 8) no wheelchairs 9) fewer clothes 10) more money…
The Pantheon 2
The 1700 year old part. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome
The Pantheon
Raphael sleeps here. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome