-Europe

About town

This tall mural is the work of Serbian street artist, Artez, who is based in Belgrade but travels the world. His murals combine photo-realism and illustration, and usually feature people, […]

-Malta

Tower

I’m weaning myself off my recent obsession with collective nouns, but gently, as you see. Why this tower was disguised as a giraffe, I do not know, but it caught […]

-Malta

Graffio, graffi, graffia, graffiamo, graffiate, graffiano

io graffiotu graffiegli/ella graffianoi graffiamovoi graffiateessi/esse graffiano Graffito, and the more commonly used plural graffiti, comes […]

-Venice

All my fame for a pot of ale

Cheers! And Happy Birthday to Shakespeare, who was born in 1564. It turns out 23 April is only a guess of his actual birth date, but he was baptised […]

-Malta

Vittoriosa’s wonderful waterside buildings and golden colours are reflected in the windows of D’Breeze. And here is the view unreality, with its own reflections. Copyright Debbie Smyth, 19 April 2019 […]

-Malta

Dwejra Point

An interior lagoon of salt water at Dwejra Point is connected to the open sea through a narrow archway. In calm weather, small boats take visitors through the tunnel into […]

-Austria

The upside of a salt mine

Do you know what Picasso said when he looked at my drawings in 1939? “You’re crazy, Brassai. You have a gold mine and you spend your time exploiting a salt […]

-Malta

Artistic reminder of the Siege of Malta

I spotted this young lad clambering up the wall behind the boat as I wandered along the waterfront of Senglea, to catch a ferry back to Valletta. It was hard […]

-Malta