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faces of carnival ii | venice, italy
"if you read a lot, nothing is as great as you’ve imagined. venice is — venice is better." - fran lebowitz
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burning | palma, spain
"there are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold." - sylvester mccoy
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wrapped in pink | palma, spain
"mallorca is a place similar to happiness, apt to be blissful in it, apt for the scenario of happiness and i, as many islanders and visitors, have almost never got the wealth of happiness that one must carry inside to feel worthy spectator (and not ashamed) of such clarity of beauty." - jorge luis borges
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altar | rome, italy
"when thou art at rome, do as they do at rome." - miguel de cervantes
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once upon a time in soho | london, uk
"when a man is tired of london, he is tired of life; for there is in london all that life can afford." - samuel johnson
fuldaer dom | fulda, germany
"i would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. the baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources." - jorge luis borges
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blooms of darkness ii
"beauty ain't always a little, cute colored flower. beauty is anything where people be like, 'damn'." - prodigy
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who is worried about monetary policy?
late spring in frankfurt am main
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the floating city | venice, italy
"i have spoken to you of pompeii," said the moon, "that corpse of a city, exposed in the view of living towns. i know another sight still more strange, and this is not the corpse but the specter of a city. whenever the jetty fountains splash into the marble basins, they seem to me to be telling the story of the floating city." - hans christian andersen
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farol da ponta dos capelinhos | açores, portugal
the life of the lighthouse of ponta dos capelinhos on the westernmost tip of faial was as adventurous as they get; an eruption of capelinhos volcano just one kilometre away from a lighthouse in 1957-58 destroyed all surrounding buildings and resulted in a rise of the volcanic cone (visible on the right) by more than 200 meters;
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venetian silk i | venice, italy
"this was venice, the flattering and suspect beauty this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism." – thomas mann
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lago di carezza | südtirol, italia
as the legend says in once upon the time a beautiful water nymph lived in the pristine waters of lago di carezza. a wizard masaré, once heard her singing and fell in love, however, not even his magic was enough to win the nymph. with help from a witch, an elaborate plan was born. masaré was supposed to stretch a rainbow from the lake and disguise as a jewellery salesman, just to be able to approach the nymph.
sadly for the wizard, he forgot the salesman cloak and was recognized. the nymph jumped into the lake and was never seen since. angry masaré smashed the rainbow into pieces, which fell into waters of the lake. since then the ladin name of the lake is "lec de ergobando" (rainbow lake).europeitaliaItalyspringalto adigehdrlakelandscapemountainseasonskysüdtiroltraveltreewater
grand harbour | valletta, malta
grand harbour - now a peaceful port in the middle of the middle see - once was a heavily contested military stronghold; during the great siege of malta six thousand knights of st. john and maltese soldiers defended three fortified cities of birgu, senglea against 36 thousand strong ottoman army;
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saint-paul | starsbourg, france
while the strabourg cathedral with one unfinished tower is the symbol of the old city, église réformée saint-paul is probably the most familiar of the new german strasbourg
a separation | valletta, malta
while many consider malta and other mediterranean islands to be summer destinations, it is winters when they truly reveal themselves
"in valletta
a centaur sits at night
on a bastions
for few minutes
then goes"
- emmanuel george cefai, vallettaeuropechurchfortlightroomlong exposuremaltaseaseasonwaterwinter
eye of the storm | südtirol, italy
“when you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. that’s what this storm’s all about.” - haruki murakami, kafka on the shore
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the battle | madeira, portugal
one year and one day ago the day started with a battle between sun and clouds; clouds won and it was only two days later that we saw the first rays of sun reaching the southern coast of madeira
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under the sky | südtirol, italia
the small church of san giovanni in ranui in the background of villnöß valley
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happiness | bali barat, bali
“it is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”
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the empty road | südtirol, italia
"the road goes ever on and on
down from the door where it began.
now far ahead the road has gone,
and I must follow, if i can,
pursuing it with eager feet,
until it joins some larger way
where many paths and errands meet.
and whither then? i cannot say"
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dirty job
did you know that worker bees visit more than four million blossoms to produce one kilogram of honey? their job is not only tiresome but can also get pretty dirty; just after visiting a few hibiscus blossoms this worker bee got all covered in pollen and could hardly fly; i caught it while trying to unload some of the undesirable cargo;
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farewell to malta | valetta, malta
"Adieu, ye joys of La Valette!
Adieu, sirocco, sun, and sweat!
Adieu, thou palace rarely enter'd!
Adieu, ye mansions where I've ventured!
Adieu, ye cursed streets of stairs!
(How surely he who mounts you swears!)"
-- George Gordon Byron, "Farewell To Malta"europeSliemacityscapehdrlagoonlong exposuremaltareligious structuresea
