Turin’s vibrant centre plays host to a range of stores, café’s, but most of all an interesting and diverse street architecture. Continue reading “Turin at Night”
Mont St Michel
Mont St Michel rises from the surrounding bay as a structure seemingly beyond its reality, rising to the heavens. It emerges from the bay, sometimes an island, sometimes not, with the large tides creating sand flats over vast areas of land. Continue reading “Mont St Michel”
Views of Paris
Views of Cologne Cathedral
The Cologne Cathedral dazzles the eye with its grandeur and grace. Much photographed and written about, even viewed from across the river it dominates the landscape of the city. Continue reading “Views of Cologne Cathedral”
The Danube River at night, Budapest
The Danube River, once the north eastern border of the Roman empire, provides gorgeous reflections at night from the twined cities, Buda and Pest (Budapest). Together these now merged cities straddle the river with dramatic bridges and buildings. Continue reading “The Danube River at night, Budapest”
Prague Train Stations
The Prague underground stations surprised this traveler with a common theme employed in their construction. The first impression is one of a blocky, soviet-style architecture and of course the inclination is to dismiss this as a somewhat inelegant, blocky, perhaps overdone, building style given the minimalist modes and elegant lines of modern construction. Looking more closely at the architecture, you realise this presumption is both ill-considered and, dare I admit, uncouth! Continue reading “Prague Train Stations”
St Vitus Cathedral, Prague
St Vitus Cathedral in Prague is (currently) the worlds most recent gothic cathedral, begun in 1344 in late gothic style, finally consecrated in 1929. As such, it features a mixture of late-gothic, baroque, renaissance architectural styles, and stain-glass windows from as recent as the early 20th century by Alfons Mucha, Prague’s most celebrated artist in the last century. Continue reading “St Vitus Cathedral, Prague”
The Prague National Gallery
The National Gallery of Prague, the Veletržní Palác, is Prague’s primary museum for contemporary Art and is interesting not only for its splendid collection, but also for the building itself. Continue reading “The Prague National Gallery”