Toward the end of the first hike, we descended into the town of Vernazza allowing the vantage point for this picture. Vernazza is the second town in Cinque Terre (when heading South). I have probably a dozen pictures from the five towns that I really like. I think that the… Continue reading
This is a portion of the town of Monterosso, the Northern most town in Cinque Terre, a set of five towns on the Eastern coat of Italy. The previous afternoon had been rainy and we canned our plans to hike down into one of the towns (blind, as in no… Continue reading
Part of our Mt. Etna excursion was getting to hike around on the foothills & lava flows from the volcano. This picture does a decent job of capturing the landscape that we were hiking around in and showing the volcanic ground. I have a few others showing everything from the… Continue reading
I took this while wandering around Catania, Sicily. I knew nothing about it, other than it was something obviously important in town (elephant obelisks aren’t something you expect to see without reason). As expected, Sicily is not rife with Elephants, so a google search for “Sicily Elephant” was fruitful. From… Continue reading
I’ve come upon my folder of pictures from Italy and on initial count had somewhere north of 4k pictures from the trip. My goal is to reduce this number, but there are probably a couple dozen good ones in there for posting. I’ll probably do a few from each country,… Continue reading
This is another picture that I think is not actually a good picture, but I find it entertaining. It was taken with a wide lens, close to the ground, accentuating the lean. I guess we did it right… Pisa is a tourist trap. Don’t bother. But, if you do bother,… Continue reading
This one comes from Florence, Italy – it’s a shot up the Arno River looking at the Ponte Vecchio, which Wikipedia tells me means “Old Bridge.” After Janet and I left Sicily, which was delayed and almost didn’t happen, we headed for Florence where we’d meet Mark and Ashley. With… Continue reading
Back to not dying today – though fevers do apparently yield some odd dreams. Sometime not that long after the trip to Mackinac, there was a trip to the Traverse City area. One of the things to do was go to the Sleeping Bear Dunes – Janet had never been… Continue reading
Guest post from The Jano: Matt is under the weather so, I’m taking this opportunity to provide a “guest post”; a photo from a trip to Mackinac Island. This was my first time to the land of fudge where cars are not allowed. This trip also included a taste of… Continue reading
At long as I’m momentarily on the Mackinac area theme – here is a shot of the Mackinac Bridge at night. As usual, I took a bunch of these to see what different settings would yield. This one was the longest exposure, which I like for the smoothness of the… Continue reading