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V is for… Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius sits just 9 km outside Naples, glowering imposingly over all around. It is still active and experts believe a massive eruption is due some time soon.  History has […]

Wright Angles

Frank Lloyd Wright was a romantic with an emotional reaction to architecture and the environment, explaining that “when organic architecture is properly carried out no landscape is ever outraged by […]

Tarragonan Trompe l’Oeil

At first glance, you may notice nothing strange about these doors and windows in La Plaça dels Sedassos in Tarragona: In fact, they are all painted on a flat wall, with the perspectives […]

Mancunian Graffiti

For this Monday’s Mellow Yellow, I have chosen some graffiti from Manchester’s Northern Quarter: Posted as part of Monday Mellow Yellow‘s meme.

In the Background

Watching the big screen at Times Square is always entertaining. . Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background.

Portrait of a Cake

I spend a lot of time working near Trafalgar Square, but the menu where I work is boring.  So the other day (a dull, grey one as is the norm at the […]

U is for… Umbrella

Now you probably all think that this title means lots of photos of British weather. But no, I’ve got a few umbrellas from sunnier climes. First of all, Venice: Then […]

T is for… the Thames

The Thames is vital to London’s beauty, vitality and variety.  You can travel on it, cross over or under it, walk alongside it, eat beside (or on) it and look […]