With April comes a new tennis team competition season, and with the away games occasionally the chance to see village and country life (and canals) in places I’d be unlikely to visit otherwise, such as this lovely little North Holland town last Saturday…
We come, at last, to the final photos from my glorious four days in Zermatt last year. The last photo at the bottom here shows you the view from my upper-deck front seat window on the bus down valley from Täsch back to Visp (who up-valley journey we documented closer to the time), whence those various trains via Domodossola to the lovely lakesides villages & cities of Ticino. And just FYI, I’ve made a preliminary decision that I’ll aim for 400 posting days in a row on this swing, meaning you (and I) will be taking a break from the daily one-or-more posts near the end of this month.
Last views from Paris’s (I’m pronouncing Paris as the French do, Maria – with a silent s) lovely Domaine Nationale du Palais Royale…til my next visit, at least :-). It feels odd that most of my royalty photos are coming still from France, whose last period of being formally constituted as an empire / kingdom ended in 1870. Particularly when you consider I spent nearly a full week in the formally-constituted Kingdom of Norway more recently than my last visit to France during this, its Fifth Republic…and that I spend most of my days and nights here in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. But somehow royalty is much less visible, more discrete, here – unless one goes looking for it. Which I must remember to do!
I was in Locarno, on the shores of Lago Maggiore, nearly five months ago already. These are all from a lovely walk around the city on my first morning there. Below you’ll see some of the old “Castello Visconteo,” or viscount’s castle I guess, which is one of the older buildings in this city which dates to the 12th century but does have some Roman history as well, I believe. I mostly just walked around and enjoyed the views – didn’t go into the museum housed in the Castello, sorry…
(so much world, so little time....) 