Bye Bye to the Goat!
Twelve days to go until Chinese New Year, when it will be out with the goat and in with the monkey. New Year comes along on 8 February this year and, […]
Tickled Pink
Linked to Fun Foto Challenge and Floral Friday Copyright Debbie Smyth, 26 January 2016
A Short and Winding Walk
On my busy trip to Copenhagen last week, I managed to grab a quick break one lunchtime. Very conveniently, I was in the part of town that houses a tower that […]
Cerulean in Salcombe
Salcombe is a beautiful spot on the southern coast of Devon, an incredibly popular resort where its narrow lanes become incredibly crowded as the summer population swells to around ten times the size […]
Thorvaldsen’s Return
In central Copenhagen, next to Christiansborg Palace, there stands a museum dedicated to a single artist, to the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), a Dane who spent most of his life in Rome. The outside […]
A Touch of Cerise
A colourful note: the colour name cerise comes from the French word for cherry, cerise. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of cerise as a […]
Frozen Balls
Linked to Odd Ball Copyright Debbie Smyth, 24 January 2016
Danish David and his Shadow
Many full-sized replicas of Michelangel’s marble David are on display around the world; the one above is a bronze cast that stands in front of the Kongelige Afstøbningssamling, the Danish Royal […]
Utopian Bodies and Elderly Care
Pink, carnation pink on this occasion, appears to be a very popular colour choice for posters in Stockholm. It certainly attracts my eye. Utopian Bodies, on at Liljevalchs currently, sets out […]
Full of Joy in Frozen Stockholm
Linked to Six Word Saturday and Optimistic Copyright Debbie Smyth, 23 January 2016
Travel with Intent 