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Month: September 2015

Milan, squares and steeples

Posted onSeptember 30, 2015September 29, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

Prague, more castles, bridges and churches

Posted onSeptember 28, 2015September 26, 20151 Comment

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 …

Budapest – a trail of two cities

Posted onSeptember 27, 2015September 26, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

Vienna, Horses and Music

Posted onSeptember 26, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

Broke Baroque and 100,000 Books

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015September 20, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

Migrants, Court Room 600 and Nuremberg

Posted onSeptember 23, 2015September 23, 20151 Comment

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 …

Castle Shopping and other Past-times

Posted onSeptember 22, 2015September 20, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

Spires and Sunshine on Gingerbread

Posted onSeptember 20, 2015Leave a comment

The wooden beam houses, bonded with plaster, time and paint highlight history and passion with preservation. The stories and the facts merge to create a visual feast as we travel down the Rhine. The street Read More …

Dusseldorf, Cologne and Rudesheim

Posted onSeptember 17, 2015September 17, 20152 Comments

The orange fashion statement is an indicator that we are about to set of on a journey. Two things were missing, water and wind. The water levels in the European rivers were as low as Read More …

Beyond Holy Water — Fountains, Polders and Dikes

Posted onSeptember 11, 2015September 10, 2015Leave a comment

The Roman fountain with the gaurding mask, the Holy water in every church narthex, and the waters of the Dutch Polders all emerge from before modern times. They are the waters of survival, a balance Read More …

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