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Notre Dame de Paris, one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, needs no particular introduction, and since this is my third post dedicated to it, I’ve decided to talk about music instead. This time I would like you to join me for a walk along Seine while listening to gothic, ethereal music by French neoclassical dark-wave group known as Dark Sanctuary. Click…
**About Thursday’s Special: It is a ‘non-challenge’ challenge that appeals to bloggers eager to wake up their creativity and show their own ideas and interpretation of the world. I invite everybody interested to join in. There are no themes, titles and techniques set for your expression, there are no limits and restrictions (no red tape whatsoever). The only thing required is to post…
Sometimes a woman must make an extra effort. That’s exactly what Maggie Verver did after having discovered a betrayal by her husband and her step mother. Determined to save her marriage Maggie convinces her father to leave England and to return to the States with his young bride. In the course of the novel (“The Golden Bowl” by Henry James) we see Maggie transform…
I would like to share with you today a photo of a special place. It is Bonifacio on Corsica the way I saw it in late September. I advise you to listen to the attached music too. You will not regret it… **About Thursday’s Special: It is a ‘non-challenge’ challenge that appeals to bloggers eager to wake up their creativity and show their…
Utility will be always on the side of the beautiful things. – Oscar Wilde **About Thursday’s Special: It is a ‘non-challenge’ challenge that appeals to bloggers eager to wake up their creativity and show their own ideas and interpretation of the world. I invite everybody interested to join in. There are no themes, titles and techniques set for your expression, there are no…
Artu was kept in a cage on a hill overlooking Varenna on lake Como. The sun was coming down and the bars were blocking the view, so I had to come very close. Unlike Regina who screamed her lungs out at the site of me and other impertinent tourists, Artu just gave me this dumbfounded look. **About Thursday’s Special: It is a ‘non-challenge’…
Kate Croy is a poor girl who wants to marry a poor boy. Her aunt wants her to marry a Lord. To get her way, Kate needs money. She meets a rich American orphan named Milly Theale, who has a fatal disease, and has come to Europe to live before she dies. Milly likes Kate’s poor boy, whose name is Merton Densher. Slowly,…
“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a…
Perched high on a promontory overlooking the Corsican Gulf of Saint-Florent, the polychromatic church of San Michele is the finest representative of the Pisan-Romanesque style architecture on Corsica. Its green and white serpentine and limestone walls date back to the 12th century. I captured this jewel glistening beautifully in the late summer sun amidst dramatic and seductive Corsican landscape. To complete your experience please…
You may ask yourself why I have posted candles and rose petals. It is cause it is my birthday today. Needless to say I am not 6 any more 😀 . And no, it is not my bathtub 😉 **About Thursday’s Special: It is a ‘non-challenge’ challenge that appeals to bloggers eager to wake up their creativity and show their own ideas and interpretation of…
Walking in the small north Italian town of Vicenza I stepped on a little, quaint footbridge that was shining beautifully in the dark. Different than much older stone bridges across the Bacchiglione this bridge seemed to evoke the music from Keith Jarrett’s 1993 classical album. I could write about a musical phenomenon that is Keith Jarrett, but it would not be fair as there are…
Lost in Translation 