RAMBLE: TRAVEL BLOG

1. MUNICH: BMW Welt & Museum

   December 1, 2023
   For largest display, click on the individual photograph BMW model badges When I found out that our path back to the US was through Munich,  I was interested, no make that excited, at the prospect of visiting BMW Welt and Museum, two architectural marvels across the road from each other…

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2. MAGNIFICENT MUNICH

   November 26, 2023
   As there were no non-stop flights from Marseille back to Washington D.C., we decided to break up our return with a two day stopover in Munich,  our connection city. The last time I was in Munich was in the 1970s and I can recall but two things about it, my…

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3. Cassis, Provence

   November 20, 2023
   We had an agenda-free day on the tour so four of us hired a taxi and headed to Cassis, a coastal town along the French Riviera famous for its cliffs, the sheltered inlets called calanques and lots of boats.  For me it was an opportunity to roam around and capture…

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4. Vibrant, Vivacious Marseille

   November 13, 2023
   I think this is the third organized tour I have joined. One in 2006 was a photo tour to Scotland, it rained every day, I believe we had two hours of sunshine over 12 days. The second was a photo tour in Iceland. Traveling with another photographer is always a…

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5. Aix 3

   October 23, 2023
   Flower Market My son in law describes Aix as beautiful but beige. The tones in the structures are similar of course, but the influence of Greek and Roman architecture makes up for the dearth of color.  Emile Zola The Good King The house where Cezanne died You want color? Come…

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6. Aix en Provence 2

   October 22, 2023
   Rotunda Fountain The first full day of the tour was exhausting. Smithsonian has a strange way of scheduling. First there is the arrival day when they had a nice little welcome and a group dinner. The next day was a lot of walking and a lecture - in which several…

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7. Aix en Provence

   October 21, 2023
   Color Palette Old town More than several years ago my wife Amy and I went to Italy to mark a special birthday. We are at it again, another milestone birthday with a trip to Aix en Provence, a town in Southern France not far from Marseille.  Getting here was certainly…

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8. Peace Walls, Belfast

   September 6, 2023
   Faces of Resistance For largest display, click on the individual photograph Belfast is known for being the former epicenter of the Troubles, the conflict that ran approximately 30 years and ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Known as a conflict between the Protestants and Catholics, it was mostly…

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9. Crawford Gallery Cork

   August 31, 2023
   When I travel I seek out museums and galleries to explore. This is a relatively new thing, when I was young I rarely visited museums, and if I did, they were places like the Smithsonian Air & Space museum, or the Hirschhorn Sculpture garden. It’s not like I hadn’t seen…

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10. Un-Corked

    August 20, 2023
    Morning panorama For largest display, click on the individual photo. Sometime in the mid-1990s I was invited to a December wedding in Cork and I have been wanting to get back since. Life got in the way, but I am here now, enthusiastically, to spend 5 days, the last leg…

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