Some last shots of Bissone, the lovely little village on the eastern shore of Lake Lugano where I stayed for four nights last November :-). The serpents are the city (village, really) symbol, taken by the public pool.
OK, so I went for this fabulous dawn / sunrise walk in Rome last week, with various buildings framing the setting moon wonderfully as the sky lightened. Couldn’t help myself, just kept taking photos. Yes, you’ll see the moon in each of the photos below, if you look closely enough or tap and enlarge. Don’t hate me if I’ve again gone overboard on this whole beauty thing 🙂
I began this series four years and a month ago, when my brothers and I gathered briefly in Oregon for time together before my move from the Pacific Coast all the way over to Amsterdam for work. I’m feeling a bit nostalgic – perhaps even a tad homesick – for the Pacific, even as I enjoy the Mediterranean and North Sea coastlines I’ve visited more recently :-).
Last bridge pics from my lovely Centovalli afternoon trip down from Locarno last year. Interestingly, I saw these hills and lakes from the air en route to Rome from Amsterdam, two Sundays ago: look for it in upcoming posts :-).
These little guys were in that same lovely Chiang Mai temple complex as my most recent “orchids” post :-). (Tap the images to see uncropped versions.) And yeah, that was a work trip too. No wonder my poor body and brain sometimes get a bit confused and feel their age lol.
As with the Barcelona photos I’ve been showing you: couple days of work from Sunday to Wednesday last week, but one does have evenings and mornings for walks and enjoying wonders of the world :-). Hadn’t been to Rome since, wait for it, May 1981. Yikes.
With this post, we’re wrapping up our remaining photos of Trondheim, which is the largest city but not the capital of Norway’s Trondelag county. An interesting perception shift that came about over the course of this journey was that cities I used to think of as very far north (e.g. Trondheim, or even Bergen) I now think of as, by Norwegian standards, not really all that far north in fact. After all, they’re still below the arctic circle lol… 🙂
Above, Queen Matilda of Flanders, who is of an older generation and different from the Empress Maud of the Anarchy so well chronicled in the Cadfael series. Interesting, the succession challenges that even a royal system can bring. Human ego, I guess, eh? Last shots from my stroll around the Jardins du Luxembourg, final morning in Paris before heading off to Zermatt last October.
Our plane flew over Lago di Brecciano shortly before landing at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Sunday afternoon. Another short work trip in a lovely and ancient city near the Mediterranean.
