Another quote

the conductor from the Polar Express:

"Sometimes seeing is believing, but sometimes, the most real things in life are things we can't see"

How true.

Makes you kinda wonder what is the most important sense we have. hmmm... like if you had to pick one sense. feeling, seeing, smelling, hearing and tasting. most people would say they couldn't live without their sight. but maybe it should be feeling. hmm

Rome

Rome was an amazing place. I spent two nights there and on the second day, visited the Sistine chapel. it was like nothing i have ever seen before in my life. I don't have photos, cos they weren't allowed, but seriously photos wouldn't do it justice anyway. its phenomenal. everywhere you go you see ruins and stuff thats been around for thousands of years. its super cool.


The route into the Sistine Chapel


The Ruins of the Roman Forum


Stone cobble streets that Julius Caesar walked on (no...seriously)


The Famed Colosseum


The Dungeons of the Colosseum


St Peter's Basilica


The View from the top of the Spanish Steps


The Trevi Fountain


view OF the Pantheon


view FROM the Pantheon

An insightful quote

I interrupt your regular photography viewing with a short but insightful quote. I heard it today while watching the 1963 classic film "Charade" with Cary Grant, and Audrey Hepburn

Audrey: Why do people have to tell lies?

Cary: It usually means they want something, and they are afraid the truth won't get it for them.

'nuff said. wisdom from pop culture more than forty years ago. woohoo!

Venezia

After Innsbruck, we travelled into the beautiful country of Italy. The first stop was in Venice. what a stunning city!

San Marco Basillica


On the streets where you live...


the mermaids gaze...


Gondola driver sings "Its Amore!"


View from the bridge of sighs


A venetian canal


Narrow streets...


A deserted marketplace


The light on the water


The corner store

innsbruck

I was just looking thru my photos again, and realised that I have a couple more photos of the beautiful city of Innsbruck, Austria to show you.

Austria

After Germany, i was off to Austria for one evening. the city of Innsbruck is such a beautiful place, and that night it was snowing romantically as i walked the old streets. It was such a charming city that was rich in Germanic flair and history. Along one of my walks, i came across this bronze plaque on the wall of arch that covered an old street. It looked like it could have come out of an old fable written by the Brothers Grimm...


First sight...



The next morning, we headed off to town Dachau, to the site of one of the most well known concentration camps during the reign of the Nazis. It was disturbing just walking into the museum, and visually absorbing the conditions that these prisoners had to live under. After the tour of the barracks, I had to get some air and walked around the grounds. this was the view of one the entrances to the camp, and would have been what each prisoner had to see each day as they left their barracks to the "work" that they had been conscribed to do.


Chilling...