Lens-Artists #84: Narrow Passageways

Amy at Lens-Artists this week invites us to explore the topic of narrow. In my travels to “old” places – places built when there were no cars or crowds of tourists -I explored (or declined to explore) many narrow streets and other passageways. Places like Old Town Tallinn, Estonia (where I got lost due to […]

WWPC: Ways and Means in Miltenberg

Miltenberg, Germany, a beautiful small city with some 9,000 or so inhabitants, is located in northern Bavaria on the Main River. This post features ways – how people move around – and means – what is used to get around – in this picturesque town, for Which Way Photo Challenge, now with a new host, […]

WWPC: Miltenberg, Germany

Miltenberg, Germany is a small picturesque city on the Rhine River. It’s a photographer’s dream – so photogenic! I will be posting more of it soon. These are some narrow streets and stairways I snapped while walking around the town. Posted for sonofabeach96’s Which Way Photo Challenge 9/5/19.

WPC: Going Up & Looking Up

Sue W. sponsors the WP Weekly Photo Challenge prompt and this week the word is Up. Up makes me think of stairs or other means of ascending. These are photos from our most recent trip to Egypt and Israel, Dec. 2018-Jan. 2019. One of the women in my Egypt tour group confided to me (partly […]

Getting Our Kicks in Santa Fe (Route 66 Day 6, Pt. 1): Cathedral and Burro Alley

June 12, 2018 We spent the morning in Santa Fe before hitting the road toward Amarillo. First, we went back to the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi to see the interior. The cathedral was built by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy between 1869 and 1886. There had been two previous churches on the same site, […]

Colorful Cartagena: a fort, a market, and the palace of the Inquisition

March 26, 2017 We arrived in Cartagena, Colombia early this morning. The shore excursion we had signed up for was to meet on the pier at 7:45. After getting up with an alarm and having breakfast delivered to our room, we were ushered to group #10’s bus. Our guide’s name was Roque and the bus driver […]

São Paulo’s “Beco do Batman” (Batman’s Alley)

November 22, 2016 Our agenda for today was a bit more far-flung and complicated. We planned to start by taking the Metro blue line, transferring to the green line, getting off at Sumaré and walking from there to Beco do Batman (Batman’s Alley), an area famous for its beautiful and extensive graffiti art. The walls, doors, pillars […]

Historic downtown São Paulo

November 21, 2016 Another nice day, although not as warm as yesterday. I realized that I’d gotten sunburned on my neck, shoulder, face and head, so I made sure to bring my hat on our excursion to downtown today. After breakfast at our little table set up next to the kitchen in our host’s apartment, we set out […]

Av. Paulista, Part 2: MASP & Siqueira Campos Park

November 20, 2016 On a sunny Sunday afternoon on Av. Paulista, São Paulo, we saw: We went into MASP where they had some unusual exhibits, including a lot of folk art. There was also a gallery where all the pictures stood singly in stands across the room, not on the walls. To find out who […]

Avenida Paulista on a sunny Sunday, Part 1

November 20, 2016 The day dawned bright and sunny – for the first time since we got here! Having obtained a map at the art museum on Friday, I studied it to figure out how to get to Av. Paulista and where to get off the metro. To get to Avenida Paulista, one can take […]