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-Sweden

Expectations – Stockholm

From Copenhagen, I’m heading straight to Stockholm.  I was here briefly in the mid-1990s for a conference on a ferry to Helsinki.  My memories of Stockholm are, therefore, limited to […]

-Denmark

Expectations – Copenhagen

I read an article on travel writing recently; it recommended writing a list of your assumptions, expectations and imaginings about the place before you get there.  The idea behind this […]

-Marseille

Fashion Conscious Fish

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” -Malcolm Muggeridge I bet this cute fish rules the roost – excuse the mixed metaphors! Linked to Afloat, Blue Monday, Monday […]

-Marseille

Marseille is in my Heart

“Marseille is, and always has been, the port of exiles, of Mediterranean exiles, of exiles from our former colonial routes, too.  Here, whoever disembarks in the port is inevitably at […]

-London

I is for… Invader

There has been an invasion of little, and sometimes not so little, pixellated men across the globe, starting in Paris in 1998. They seem friendly enough so if you want […]

-Venice

Panoramic Venice

Every now and then a view just demands that I use the panorama setting on my camera to capture in all its wide-angled beauty.  The Venice lagoon was one such […]

-Milan

The Cathedral of Milan

-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 84 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photos taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own […]