Bissone as I walked home across the bridges & causeway from the Melide train station. Below, both Bissone and some of the other towns along the more southern shores of Lake Lugano.
Last in this series from the gondola trip’s last leg down to Zermatt. We’ve shown you some of these houses above in a prior post or two, but I found this view from the air captivating.
Mountains and towns along the coast all taken the morning after we crossed into the arctic circle (where we spent a total of more than four days), before our walk around town during the port call at Bodø. At the bottom, you see a bit of the sun lingering below the horizon shortly before 9am that day – it probably officially rose around 10, and you’ll see from the earlier Bodø photos when it really set, which I think was around 2pm.
Above, last Friday the 31st; below all from the frozen Saturday morning of January 11th. They’re all from the same patch of daffodils, so that frozen early morning clearly didn’t harm the blooms because they’re all still quite radiant and cheering.
When Ålesund burned in 1904, Kaiser Wilhem II was a big supporter of its rebuilding in this lovely Jugenstil (Art Nouveau) style. Other towns we visited on the cruise had rebuilt after a fire, but none with such royal support! 🙂
We launched this series in August 2023, after Nikos & I had done a swing through Het Loo palace and museum in Appeldoorn. So this was my first visit since then to London, home to that most quintessential royal head-of-state institution full of pomp and circumstance (and a fairly high level of dignity, compared to some other global heads of state one can think of). So although really the weekend was all about celebrating Howard’s 60th birthday, I simply had to post my first ever blog shots of this well known royal location.
(so much world, so little time....) 