The Wonders of Venice
2013年11月16日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 55 °FVenice is magnificent! I stood on the balcony taking pictures as the ship entered St. Mark’s Basin. We went on an organized tour of the Doge’s Palace with our guide Sylvia, a very witty andもっと詳しく
Venice is magnificent! I stood on the balcony taking pictures as the ship entered St. Mark’s Basin. We went on an organized tour of the Doge’s Palace with our guide Sylvia, a very witty andもっと詳しく
We worshipped at St. Mark’s Basilica. We had to walk on little platforms to avoid the ankle-deep water flooding St. Mark’s Square. Even though the service was in Italian, I felt more at home thereもっと詳しく
We took the bus to Corinth where we boarded a boat for a trip down the canal. It is remarkable that several ancient and modern attempts to cut a canal here failed. We saw the Acrocorinthos in theもっと詳しく
I was running a little temperature so I decided not to get off the ship for the visit to Kusadasi and Ephesus. We had been here before, so it seemed to be a good day to rest and recuperate. Glendaもっと詳しく
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. We arrived in Istanbul about 7:00 A. M., and the first sight I saw from our balcony was the Hagia Sophia. It also turned outもっと詳しく
Unlike the Haiga Sofia, the Hagia Eirene next door has never been a mosque. It is still used as a concert hall, but all of its old Christian iconography is still intact. An ancient ecumenical councilもっと詳しく
It is hard to imagine that by the nineteenth century the Ottoman Emperors needed a new palace, but they built one nevertheless. The old palace, called Topkapi (the Cannons) is still magnificent. Weもっと詳しく
The Grand Bazaar of Istanbul is a cross between a middle eastern suq and a modern shopping mall. In business since 1461 there are still to be found little stalls selling spices, flowers and leather,もっと詳しく
The Sultanahmet Mosque is also known as the Blue Mosque because of the lovely blue light that comes through the stained glass windows. There was a place reserved for prayer but the vast majority ofもっと詳しく
Visiting the Hippodrome amazed me! It sits just between the Hagia Sofia and the Blue Mosque. It was adjacent to the palace of the Caesars who followed Constantine in the Eastern Roman Empire. Ofもっと詳しく