Top Three Holiday Photos

[TheRealTMA]

Piano Grande near Norcia, Umbria. (Sorry, can't do it justice with only three photos.)

Piano Grande - Life in Italy

Share this article!Breathtaking Views in Umbria I’m listening to the car radio and on comes “Una Storia Importante” by Eros Ramazzotti. The first lines of the song “quante scuse ho inventato io” remind me of the many excuses I used to make for not having the time to get out […]

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[TheRealTMA]

Piano Grande Two, Castelluccio in distance.

Mozzafiato Majesty of il Piano Grande - ItalianNotebook - Italy Travel Blog

Only mozzafiato (literally, “cutting off, truncating your breath”; more visceral than the English, “breathless”) can…

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[VPS]

Those photos are amazing - is there where the settlers of New Norcia in WA came from?

btw - the link doesn't work

 

[TheRealTMA]

Those photos are amazing - is there where the settlers of New Norcia in WA came from?

btw - the link doesn't work

Yes I believe so. Was it not established by the Benedictines?

Nope! Apparently it was established by the Spanish Benedictines - History - New Norcia Benedictine Community

Yes the link 'did' work but not now. Looks like a web CMS error.

btw: mozzafiato in Italian means breathtaking. An apt description of Piano Grande when the wild flowers are in full bloom.

(I’ve sometimes seen it used in Italian for a super model’s anatomy. )

 

[EestiTiger]

View early AM over my Euro home - Tallinn. Still in denial from cancelling this year's trip last week


Enjoying the Estonian countryside in Summer.


Saturday night in Death Valley (Baton Rouge Louisiana) watching the mighty tigers.

 

[OZDUCK]

Three small pretty spots in Europe

Kaysersberg Alsace



Detwang Germany at dusk



And to annoy bad gardeners like me. The allotment of my wife's cousin in Bad Homburg Germany

 

[RB]

2009-Noto Sicily-visited as a day trip from Syracuse

 

[bPeteb]

Gee, three photos from a month away is difficult, especially when you might be covering a lot of ground. LA-San Simeon-SF-Chicago-DC-NYC-Key West-Key Largo-Naples-Miami-Vegas-Palm Springs

Our 2005 USA trip was thrown into turmoil when first Katrina devastated New Orleans before we were due to travel, and then when Rita did the same to southern Florida in September when we'd already arrived. We made it to Florida and were on one of the first flights into a very sad Key West.

For me though this trip was my (our) first Frank Lloyd Wright 'pilgramage'. Frank Lloyd Wright it is...

Marin County Civic Center



From San Francisco we flew to Chicago. We were there for the White Sox winning the 2005 World Series (I think it was the WS) and Halloween



the amazing Robie House

 

[Julesmac]

You could put that into any street and it would still look just as fresh

 

[bPeteb]

An even more difficult choice for our 2007 trip. Back to back cruises on HAL Rotterdam starting in Venice and finishing in Rio. Rome-Venice-Dubrovnik-Malta-Sicily-Rome-Monaco-Barcelona-Valencia-Lisbon-Cadiz/Seville-Casablanca/Marrakesh-Dakar-Recife-Salvador-Rio. Neither of us had been to any of these places before. It was an amazing trip.

Malta, somewhere we'd both like to go back to



Dakar



Salvador

 

[Katie]

Really loved the first one, so have tried to recreate it each Anzac day in Villers-Bretonneux. It was funny, just after taking the first one, a man said to me “You should take a photo”. I responded that I just had.
From left to right, 2008, 2011, 2018. The middle one was in a different spot, but the first and most recent ones were roughly in the same spot.


Another nostalgic favourite, 25/4/2011.

Not sure which house/cave this is, but definitely in Reims or Epernay. Taken about a week after my pic directly above this.

 

[Nathant123]

Travelled to Cairo with my younger brother as seeing the pyramids was something I wanted to tick off the bucket list. Walking around the streets of Cairo and Giza was definitely an experience and we really enjoyed the Egyptian museum as we got to see first hand the things we had studied in school. Apparently there is a newer museum now but it must not have been opened when we travelled at the end of 2018. I should have done more research but as it turns out bringing drones into the country and flying them is against the law. We went through multiple scanners at the airport, museum, ritz Carlton and the pyramids and it was never detected. Its not as though it was concealed either and was loosely carried in a school backpack. Either they didn't care or their scanners aren't so effective..

A few plucked from my instagram.

 

[leadman]

Well with iso-boredom i thought i might add a few by country. These are from Sabah in Malaysia and my first Oriental Hornbill was, for me, one of the great highlights in life. He was actually feeding a chick with a lizard, which i also captured, just amazing. The second is a Tabon Scrubfowl when i stayed for a weekend on Manukan Island. Getting rarer and I observed 9 in 2 hours. Third photo is the shiny Starlings whose eyes are incredible. Unfortunately dropping them down in size takes a lot of the definition away

 

[bPeteb]

Well with iso-boredom i thought i might add a few by country. These are from Sabah in Malaysia and my first Oriental Hornbill was, for me, one of the great highlights in life. He was actually feeding a chick with a lizard, which i also captured, just amazing. The second is a Tabon Scrubfowl when i stayed for a weekend on Manukan Island. Getting rarer and I observed 9 in 2 hours. Third photo is the shiny Starlings whose eyes are incredible. Unfortunately dropping them down in size takes a lot of the definition away

Just love your photos leadman

 

[TheRealTMA]

Montesiepi , San Galgano Abbey, Tuscany. The original (real) sword in the stone.

Galgano Guidotti - Wikipedia

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[VPS]

Travelled to Cairo with my younger brother as seeing the pyramids was something I wanted to tick off the bucket list. Walking around the streets of Cairo and Giza was definitely an experience and we really enjoyed the Egyptian museum as we got to see first hand the things we had studied in school. Apparently there is a newer museum now but it must not have been opened when we travelled at the end of 2018. I should have done more research but as it turns out bringing drones into the country and flying them is against the law. We went through multiple scanners at the airport, museum, ritz Carlton and the pyramids and it was never detected. Its not as though it was concealed either and was loosely carried in a school backpack. Either they didn't care or their scanners aren't so effective..

A few plucked from my instagram.

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excellent photos

 

[OATEK]

Lord Mayor's Parade, London November 1987 1990

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[bPeteb]

2009 back on a ship - RCCL Legend of the Seas - Shanghai to Singapore (Shanghai-Xiamen-HK-Sanya-Da Nang (Hoi An)-Vung Tau (Saigon)-Laem Chabang (Ayutthaya/Pattaya)-Sihanoukville (Phnom Penh)-Singapore

My face says it all. Wailing singers on our day trip to Suzhou (before we boarded the ship). One our favourite, if painful/hilarious, memories from this holiday



Ayutthaya. What a geat day. What an incredibly interesting history



Tuol Sleng. We haven't been to anywhere in Europe with an 'equivalent' history. Horrific, and it still upsets me thinking about what happened here and in Cambodia in general, and what a beautiful, smiling people they are

 

[Ric]

Well with iso-boredom i thought i might add a few by country. These are from Sabah in Malaysia and my first Oriental Hornbill was, for me, one of the great highlights in life. He was actually feeding a chick with a lizard, which i also captured, just amazing. The second is a Tabon Scrubfowl when i stayed for a weekend on Manukan Island. Getting rarer and I observed 9 in 2 hours. Third photo is the shiny Starlings whose eyes are incredible. Unfortunately dropping them down in size takes a lot of the definition away

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My home town BKI!! Hope you enjoyed your trip there leadman!!

 

[RB]

2009 Palermo

Plenty of Offal choices