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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: War in Libya
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Martedì 22 marzo 2011. I have placed in my personal blog text of my comment on an editorial in the New York Times about the new war in Libya. Here is a link to that. Pubblicato da Dennis Argall. Iscriviti a: Commenti sul post (Atom). Some other travels of ours. US west coast 2015. A seat on the cliff road at Positano just off the Amalfi Drive, south of Naples. Here we are in Siracusa. On board Amtrak Cascades. Oh, we have photos...
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: novembre 2010
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Mercoledì 24 novembre 2010. Yes, we are organised, all proceeding to plan. The time for planning has allowed me time to do a lot of reading (Helen is jealous: fiendishly preoccupied with office work, lobbying for things, in advance of ten weeks long service leave. But much focused on learning Italian.). My favourite bookstore, www.betterworldbooks.com. I have read again of the Normans in Sicily, briefly possessing, from Palermo,...
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: Saturday to the Villa Borghese
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Domenica 20 marzo 2011. Saturday to the Villa Borghese. Blissfully unaware that international war had been added to civil war in the next country to the south, we joined families in the Villa Borghese on Saturday. It is spring and in the Villa Borghese the grass is green and tiny daisies in bloom,. This photo from knee height. An exceptionally lovely morning by the lake. Airing themselves alone,. Pubblicato da Dennis Argall.
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: marzo 2011
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Martedì 29 marzo 2011. We have not maintained this blog well. The purpose of life has been away from blogging. Rome has been seductive, as has been an end to travelling and weeks of staying in one place. The combination of the two seductions is very powerful indeed. The little 116 electric bus weaves through springtime. Saturday afternoon in the Villa Borghese. It is licensed to seat 12 and have 22 standing, plus a wheelchair.
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: Helen's camera.
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Venerdì 11 febbraio 2011. Helen is using a Fuji E900. A fairly rare camera, easy to handle, with capacity to be used in automatic or full manual modes. A prosumer of a type now relatively rare, with high quality lens and image. Here are photos from Seattle and travel to Rome, rendered here with almost no manipulation in Photoshop other than resizing for screen and then sharpening with 'unsharp mask'. First some Seattle photos.
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: The Circumetnea railway
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Domenica 13 febbraio 2011. Some pictures in this and other entries are hard to see. Click on any photo to enlarge. Press 'back' to return to the blog. On Saturday we walked the two kilometres to the station mostly in the dark in pleasant (being rugged up) cool weather, to take the 7.30 Rome express for an hour and a half to Giarre-Riposto, north of Catania. And then, higher up, Etna begins to dominate the landscape. Coming east ...
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: EUR
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Domenica 20 marzo 2011. Mussolini planned an "Espozizione Universale a Roma" [EUR] for 1942, but World War 2 got in the way. Wikipedia has some history. The inscription at the top of this focal building expresses ideals which were tragically tainted by the violence of the Fascist regime and violence imposed on its opponents. The inscription reads:. A people of poets of artists of heroes. Of saints of thinkers of scientist. To tr...
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: All about Bronte
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Lunedì 14 febbraio 2011. When we went on the Circumetnea railway(earlier post). I later find this history of some of it. Queen Carolina perhaps lover of. Sir John Acton, made Prime Minister by Carolina. William Hamilton, British Minister. Lady Hamilton whose oft demanded dance smote. The heart of Horatio, Lord Nelson, who became the callous agent of these women. John Santore, New York 2001]. At news of the French nearing Naples,...
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: aprile 2011
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Sabato 9 aprile 2011. Here a photo of these buses. Short, square, with wheels on the corner, quick acceleration and low speed, you will see its qualities shine in the movie. Soundtrack Vasco Rossi's Siamo Soli. I had enormous difficulty then, trying on foot to work out the route, but more recently with the google map and street view, I have worked out that that movie runs (I think) from St Eustachio. Then Via del Pie di Marmo.
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy: Siracusa
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Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy. Questa volta, DUE mesi in Italia. Venerdì 11 febbraio 2011. Eccoci, a Siracusa, finalemente, recuperandoci dopo uno lungo viaggio. Here we are at last, recovering after a long trip. Il nostro apartamento our apartment. A via Roma 152, Ortigia, Siracusa, is a few doors from the sea and the most wonderful 8am sitting place. Siamo fuori a quest'ora della nostra prima mattina perche il mercato a Ortigia si apri alle 7 ogni giorno. In Ortigia opens at 7 every day.