Spain: Ponferrada
Castillo de los Templarios. August 2016 [from FB post: August 6, 2016] Just back from the thing to see here, the castle. It was a great...
Round the World I: Beijing to Athens
PROLOGUE Back in the days when we all still read newspapers, the Sunday edition was best. At the end of my time in Washington, DC before...
Netherlands: VOC
East India House, German Institute, University of Amsterdam. East India House, German Institute, University of Amsterdam. July 2017...
Italy: sandwiches and coffee
Milan. July 2015 [from FB post: August 6, 2014] Can we explore sandwiches? Seriously... how is it something so simple can be so sublime?...
Czech Republic: Elbe River Valley
Elbe River. July 2019 [from FB post: July 26, 2022] Real life update: on the train between Prague and Dresden in the Elbe Valley. Super...
Spain: Salamanca Cathedral
Cathedral July 2015 [from FB post: July 27, 2015] Oops...time to post something lest the social media zombie world think I've become...
Italy: Milan Musings
Porta Genoa. August 2014 [from FB post: August 6, 2014] Milan is a city of contrasts. You see things that just are amazing and take...
Portugal: Porto
Santo Ildefonso Torre da C.M. Ribeira view from Dom Luis I Bridge [from FB post: July 25, 2016] Report from Porto: this city just does...
lightning
roof pool, Landmark Tower. March 2011 [from FB post: July 27, 2011] Just talked to the housekeeper in Singapore. Lightening stuck one...
Italy: Milan - first impressions
Milan August 2014 [from FB post: August 5, ,2014] I just spent all morning trying to change UK Pounds to Euros. No banks offer money...
Spain: train ride to Burgos
Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Zaragoza Burgos Cathedral. July 2015 [from FB post: July 22, 2015} My 4 hour train journey really...
Portugal: Bad Romance
Old house, Alfama, Lisbon. August 2016 [from FB post: August 6, 2016] Loving a Place to Death Judging from comments from the locals...
Italy: Milano Centrale
Milano Centrale. August 2014 [from FB post: August 5, 2014] OK friends...two comments so far. They simply do NOT make train stations...
Philippines: Dipolog
Sunset Boulevard views, Dipolog. July 2017 [from FB post: July 7, 2017} Reporter on site: You know President Duterte has declared martial...
Malaysia: old sandals on the bus
Queen Victoria Memorial Clocktower, Georgetown Penang. December 2005 [from FB post: July 11, 2017] From many moons ago: Once I was...
Southern Ridges Walk
Starting in Kent Ridge Park The Port of Singapore, Kent Ridge Park. Canopy Walk, Kent Ridge Park. Hort Park Alexandra Arch. Alexandra...
Spain: Cartuja de Miraflores, Burgos
Interior, Cartuja de Miraflores, Burgos July 2015 [from FB post: July 24, 2015] Just back from a splendid walk to the Monastery Cartuja...
Dauphin County: Hollywood Casino
Hollywood Casino, Grantville. February 2022 (not my photo... seriously not) [from FB post: June 24, 2010] I went to Hollywood Casino...
Philippines: habal-habal
Museum, Eisenhauer's York Harley-Davidson, York, PA. December 2021 [from FB post: February 13, 2011] A very good day out in Samal...
Jordan: Mt Nebo
[from FB post: July 22, 2017] Looking out over the West Bank The winding road down to the Jordan Valley July 2017 [from FB post: July...