Top Three Holiday Photos

[TheRealTMA]

Normandy 2002

 

[RB]

Avignon 2009

 

[VPS]

I think @TheRealTMA recommended this place but it popped up in my memories today

About The Highland Chocolatier

Find out more about Iain Burnett and his chocolatiers. Learn more on how Iain has created such unique textures and flavours of chocolate truffles.

www.highlandchocolatier.com

Can't remember why it didn't get a 10 but my note says 9/10 for the hot chocolate

 

[TheRealTMA]

One of my favourite Tuscan towns. Montepulciano 1

Montepulciano - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Great Italian language school Learn Italian in Tuscany at Il Sasso Italian language school

 

[RB]

2013 around Ortisei

 

[TheRealTMA]

Montepulciano 2

 

[RB]

2005 Curonian Spit Curonian Spit - UNESCO World Heritage Centre

 

[TheRealTMA]

Montepulciano early January

San Biagio - San Biagio, Montepulciano - Wikipedia


Streets

 

[OZDUCK]

Germany 2011 - Some statuary ranging from the heartrending to the whimsical and then the overweening

Berlin

Käthe Kollwitz's "Mother with her Dead Son" inside the Neue Wache building on Unter den Linden. The building serves "as the ‘Central Memorial Site’ of the German state, a place of national remembrance dedicated to the victims of war and tyranny." She lost her own son in WW1.

Käthe Kollwitz | Artnet

Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist whose Expressionistic prints, woodcuts, and sculptures empathetically portrayed human suffering. View Käthe Kollwitz’s 8,647 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See...

www.artnet.com

Bad Homburg

My wife and her cousin and her cousin admiring one of the exhibits at the Blickachsen International Sculpture Biennale in the grounds of the Schloss



Dresden

Golden equestrian statue of Fredrick Augustus of Saxony in the Neustadt

 

[TheRealTMA]

Bad Homburg

My wife and her cousin and her cousin admiring one of the exhibits at the Blickachsen International Sculpture Biennale in the grounds of the Schloss

View attachment 227196

love this one!

 

[OZDUCK]

love this one!

There was also this -for the birds obviously.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Montepulciano 4

 

[RB]

Riga 2005

House of Black Heads


Small Guild

 

[TheRealTMA]

Flintlocks for Friday.

 

[OZDUCK]

Verdun 2011

We had a overnight stopover and only had time for a quick look at the place. It is not the most attractive of towns. It was basically demolished in WW1 when it was the site of possibly the longest battle of WW1 and where nearly 400,000 French and German soldiers were killed. The areas we saw had mostly been rebuilt in utilitarian 1920's style.

Me treating the French autumn weather with contempt in the central mall



The port area on the River Meuse



How this area looked after WW1



Memorial to the Poilu of WW1




The entrance to the citadel. "The underground citadel of Verdun boasts 7km/4.3mi of galleries equipped to meet the needs of an army: bakery, kitchens, field hospital, telephone exchange, ammunition dumps, etc" . We did a tour in a little 'tram" Home - Citadelle souterraine de Verdun



You can get an idea of the strength of the citadel from this photo

 

[RB]

Helsinki 2008

 

[codash1099]

RB's Helsinki picture jogged my memory - these are from 2016

Interior Upenski Cathedral (the top one in that post)


Interior Helsinki Cathedral (the bottom one)


And while on Helsinki churches, here's the Church in the Rock


and for good measure, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn, Estonia, also in 2016

 

[TheRealTMA]

Firenze

Florence - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[RB]

Bucharest 2008



Not a lot of upkeep here


People's Palace-2nd biggest admin building in the world (behind Pentagon)

 

[codash1099]

Chateau de Chantilly, outside Paris

Tha main Chateau


Chateau from the rear


The stables and race track (Chateau is distant on the right)


Chateau Library


One of the art galleries