Standing at the focal point of San Marco square at sunrise gave us a few moments of serenity before the crowds trampled every coblestone underfoot. Our first entrance to the square was during an extreme Read More …

The title image from a painting by Jacopo Tinteretto painted somewhere between 1560 and 1570 captures a feasting that knew no bounds, a revelry that would make any middle ager proud. On the table being Read More …

At first light the Duomo square in Milan is a quiet dedication to all the sacred that surrounds it. At noon a local motorcycle club was circling the square with over 300 riders dressed in Read More …

To simply discount Prague as more…. would not capture the history and soul of the city. Having survived wars, reformations,kingdoms and communist occupation the city has a decadent independence. It has more spyres, fewer church Read More …

Across the square there is more than monument, there are lessons that every school student comes to learn, the founding stones, or monuments of Buda and Pest. To the left a court and their right Read More …

The images of Cinderella Carriages and evenings of Baroque decadence where only punctuation in a visual feast. The early morning encounter with the Hunderwasser social housing project and the public, smiling places, as our guide Read More …

Whispering in the abbey library at Melk, I am suddenly aware that this out-of-office session is too short. 100,000 books to read and a two day visit. The abbey was a monument to all that Read More …

The World Court held sesion in the chamber known as number 600 located behind those four windows in the centre block, however the spectators and journalists occupied the entire floor. To settle a World War, Read More …

Finger painting and imagining are extensions of similair ideas. Yes there were castles and towers for sale, however the possibility of finding residents, help and subsidy was far from viable. This wall that surrounds a Read More …