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-Paris

Climbing the Eiffel Tower

The huge scale of the Eiffel Tower becomes apparent when contrasted with the tiny tourists who climb its stairs.  The flash of orange provided by the brave tourist below makes […]

-Belgium

Mural Lowdown

This long, narrow black and white mural is easily missed, sitting as it does, beneath the lower step leading to Saint Boniface Church in the Ixelles area of Brussels. Linked […]

-Portugal

Pot Bellied Hills

Is it Cologne with its great cathedral? Milan with its glamour and its pace? London with its river and its bridges? Lisbon with its beauty and its grace? Funny looking […]

-Naples and area

Vintage Pompeii

This week, Sonel asked us to take something old and give it a vintage feel.  Above you’ll see some Pompeiian columns in sepia, and below in their original technicolour. Linked […]

-Day Trips from Madrid

Object of Touristic Desire

These trinkets, in a shop window in Toledo, are examples of the art of damascening. This involves inlaying different metals into one another—typically, gold or silver into a darkly oxidized steel background—to produce intricate patterns. This is still practiced in […]