Tag Archives: travel One of the highlights of my trip to Scotland last week, the Glenfinnan Viaduct is more than familiar to any Harry Potter enthusiast. Located on the West Highland Line in Glenfinnan, Highland, Scotland, the railway 21-arched viaduct was built between July 1897 and October 1898, entirely of concrete, and it’s iconic horseshoe curve is now famous worldwide. The train conductor […]   This weekend I went for the second time to one of my favorite areas here in Ireland – the Dingle Peninsula – and this time I was in the most westerly settlement of the country: Dún Chaoin, anglicised as Dunquin. A small village in west County Kerry where the Irish language is still widely used. It […]  Another amazing architectural jewel I found in Milan, The Chiesa di San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore was built in 1503 by Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono. It was finished fifteen years later by Cristoforo Solari, divided into two parts: one for the faithful and one for the nuns. Until 1794 the nuns were strongly forbidden to cross the dividing […]  Everyone knows that Milan is the fashion capital of Earth, and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is not only one of the world’s oldest shopping malls but also a place to see the best dressed men and women out there. Housed within a four-story double arcade in central Milan, the Galleria is named after Vittorio Emanuele […]  I am delighted to have one of my photos of the aurora borealis (a.k.a. Northern Lights) featured on July’s cover of the Astronomy Ireland magazine! No matter how my photographs are used, I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve, but there is something rather special about a magazine cover. The photograph was taken in a small […] |
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