Thursday, October 21, 2010

Summer Trip; 15 July to 14 October, 2010

›
Alan and Cyane were in France, Switzerland, and Italy. We biked from Champoly, Rhone-Alpes Region, France to Trieste, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia ...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Saying Goodbye - to Venice, Italy, and Europe

›
Well, actually, our preparation for goodbye looked more like the scenes below rather than the scene above. Last shots of Piazza San Marco a...

A Few Venice Scenes

›
On the vaporetto above, and below, as a large cruise ship slides by, obscuring the Stuckey hotel on the island of Giudeca. Door bells abov...

Venice Architecture

›
The caryatids above got no attention at all, whereas crowds throng St Marks Square below. Is it the architecture, the people, or just the p...

Trieste

›
Trieste was an important seat of the Austrian Hungarian Empire until after the wars of the twentieth century. The architecture shows that ...

Montrupino, near Trieste, Italy

›
A limestone plateau rises abruptly to the east of Trieste. The ancient church above at Montrupino was built into a limestone cliff. The kar...

Natural Habitats and Native Plants near Triest

›
Woodland savannas above and below have native grasses and naturally occurring smoke bush, (Cotinus genus). Dense woodland forest of hornbe...

The Barcolana, and the Adriatic Coast of Trieste

›
The Barcolana happened as we arrived in Trieste; certainly one of the largest sailing events in the world with 1,500 sailboats. The water a...

Grado, Old Roman Town on the Adriatic

›
This church has Byzantine frescoes, Venetian lions carved on the Moorish inspired pulpit, ancient mosaic floors below - and it is still act...

The Roman Basilica of Aquileia

›
The mosaics above date to the third and fourth century. The altar carving below looks almost Celtic.