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Visits to Podere Boscarelli in Cervignano outside of Montepulciano, Some of the best Vino Nobile in Tuscany.
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Vino Nobile di Montepulciano: Interview with Luca and Nicolò de Ferrari of Boscarelli
"The late ‘80s and the '90s was a fashionable period for oaky wines. Everyone was looking for more structure and more color, because the market wanted those qualities. We tried to maintain our tradition." Nicolò De Ferrari in conversation with Monty Waldin
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Ghent Belgium
Gravensteen (Gravensteen - Wikipedia)
Ghent's answer to Brussels' Mannekin Pis
Ghent canals
Ghent Market Square
Gravensteen (Gravensteen - Wikipedia)
Ghent's answer to Brussels' Mannekin Pis
Ghent canals
Ghent Market Square
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Amboise, France. '95
Last one - Clos Lucé - house of Leonardo Da Vinci. Clos Lucé - Wikipedia
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Last one - Clos Lucé - house of Leonardo Da Vinci. Clos Lucé - Wikipedia
Amboise - Wikipedia
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Amboise, France. '95
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Last one - Clos Lucé - house of Leonardo Da Vinci. Clos Lucé - Wikipedia
Amboise - Wikipedia
Château d'Amboise - Wikipedia
I was going to have a week exploring around there in October
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Science in the UK
Bletchley Park. Colossus - Model of the computer developed by Alan Turing.
History of Science Museum, Oxford. The apparatus used by Alexander Fleming in his discovery of Penicillin
The Wellcome Foundation - Showing the human genome, in increasing detail
Bletchley Park. Colossus - Model of the computer developed by Alan Turing.
History of Science Museum, Oxford. The apparatus used by Alexander Fleming in his discovery of Penicillin
The Wellcome Foundation - Showing the human genome, in increasing detail
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Germany - 2011
Thermal Baths in Der Kur Park (Spa Park) Bad Homburg. Named after Kaiser Wilhelm 1.
Thai Sala in the same park. Erected in 1914 after being donated in gratitude by " King Chulalongkorn of Siam (who) visited the spa town to cure an illness". My wife and her cousin in the photo.
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A short U Bahn trip away in Frankfurt.
The Alte Opera - built 1880 and rebuilt after WW2
The Römer (medieval Town Hall) built over 600 years ago in the Frankfurt Altstadt. Basically, everything here was rebuilt after WW2 as the centre of Frankurt was mostly destroyed by an air raid in March 1944. We were being guided by my wife's cousin and he can remember watching, as a young boy, the flames of Frankfurt burning from air raids. He was living in the town of Kronberg close by. As he is a 'quarter Jewish' he wasn't unhappy, to put it mildly, at the final result of that conflict.
The crowd in front of Town Hall is a wedding party. In Germany the "official" marriage must be done at the local registry office. A religious service can also be held but the Registry Office ceremony is the only one recognised by law.
Thermal Baths in Der Kur Park (Spa Park) Bad Homburg. Named after Kaiser Wilhelm 1.
Thai Sala in the same park. Erected in 1914 after being donated in gratitude by " King Chulalongkorn of Siam (who) visited the spa town to cure an illness". My wife and her cousin in the photo.
Thai Sala | Region Frankfurt Rhein-Main
1907 King Chulalongkorn of Siam came to the spa town to cure an illness; out of gratitude, he gifted a temple to town.
A short U Bahn trip away in Frankfurt.
The Alte Opera - built 1880 and rebuilt after WW2
The Römer (medieval Town Hall) built over 600 years ago in the Frankfurt Altstadt. Basically, everything here was rebuilt after WW2 as the centre of Frankurt was mostly destroyed by an air raid in March 1944. We were being guided by my wife's cousin and he can remember watching, as a young boy, the flames of Frankfurt burning from air raids. He was living in the town of Kronberg close by. As he is a 'quarter Jewish' he wasn't unhappy, to put it mildly, at the final result of that conflict.
The crowd in front of Town Hall is a wedding party. In Germany the "official" marriage must be done at the local registry office. A religious service can also be held but the Registry Office ceremony is the only one recognised by law.
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Paris: Memories of Notre Dame. I won't see it in this state again 
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The Hospices de Beaune or Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune is a former charitable almshouse in Beaune, France.
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Thanks for these photos. Looking at them and others on the web it doesn't seem to have the distinctive 'star' shape that I have always associated with him. Edit: But looking further it seems that I have underestimated his versatility and he built fortifications to suit the conditions rather than just repeating a pattern.
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P'tit train de la Haute Somme 2011 - a little east of Amiens in Northern France.
A group of enthusiasts have preserved and restored the last vestiges of the network of railway lines and rolling stock built to provide supplies to the Somme battlefront in WW1. Some of the rolling stock was used for the sugar industry. They are a friendly bunch and we had a nice chat with one of the volunteers. Michael Portillo featured this organisation in one of his shows a year or so ago.
You can go for a short ride on a steam train - you can see how small this engine is and it is one of the larger ones.
You can see that it is not exactly a wide gauge track.
Some of the museum displays. Most of these date from WW1. Again you can see their diminutive size.
A group of enthusiasts have preserved and restored the last vestiges of the network of railway lines and rolling stock built to provide supplies to the Somme battlefront in WW1. Some of the rolling stock was used for the sugar industry. They are a friendly bunch and we had a nice chat with one of the volunteers. Michael Portillo featured this organisation in one of his shows a year or so ago.
You can go for a short ride on a steam train - you can see how small this engine is and it is one of the larger ones.
You can see that it is not exactly a wide gauge track.
Some of the museum displays. Most of these date from WW1. Again you can see their diminutive size.
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