Tuesday, January 11, 2011
When the Mind Turns to Beauty
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Surrounded by these magnificent frescoes, we enjoyed several delightful conversations with Doreen, the owner of Hotel Scoti in Florence, Ita...
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
The Village of San Gimignano
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The medieval Tuscan village of San Gimignano, known for its many privately-owned fortress towers, is one of Italy's popular tourist dest...
Friday, January 7, 2011
Dangers Amid the Beauty
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The Austrian Times reported ( HERE ) that ice skaters recently found a 250-kilo World War II bomb in the frozen Alte Donau (Old Danube), an...
Carrara's Marble Mines
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I first learned of Carrara marble as a child in 1964 when I visited the New York World's Fair and saw Michelangelo's Pieta statue wh...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Shutter Stutter at Stephansdom
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My little Canon camera, just a year old, has a major problem in which it sometimes appears to jerk an image back and forth when I'm tryi...
Deck the Balls with Gowns of Pine Boughs
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It's Ball Season in Vienna, when the major organizations host elaborate balls, often to raise money for favorite charities. Shop window...
Monday, January 3, 2011
Happy New Year from Wien!
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With stages set up throughout the downtown with live as well as recorded music, Vienna turns into one enormous street party on New Year'...
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