Gondola
The first trip abroad my wife and I took together was a long November weekend in Venice while we were still dating. We were astonishingly lucky with the weather: floods just before and after our vi...
Tagged ‘italy’
Riomaggiore on film
For our honeymoon, my wife and I went on a road trip through Italy including a couple of nights in Cinque Terre. I managed to lug my Mamiya 645AFD medium format film camera with me and, on this bea...
Mediterranean tones
Here’s a bit of a change from recent programming: a photograph from outside the UK, taken 5 years ago in Cinque Terre on our honeymoon. After getting married in the April, we delayed o...
Levanto book-ends
I've shared a couple of photographs from this evening before: of the surfers and sunset in Levanto, Italy. Two variations on the view looking out to sea while I've had these other two photographs l...
View from the bell tower of Florence Cathedral
Having a bit of a pick through some older photographs earlier in the week, I landed back on the images from the Florence leg of my honeymoon and spent a little time playing with the photographs I t...
Lining up for the wave
I've written before about the lovely sunset we got one evening in Levanto on our honeymoon, posting a photo looking down over the beach, jetty and out to the surfers in the sea. That photograph foc...
Setting foot in Rome
Just a quick one today as it's 2am and I really need to go to bed!Given the crazy hour, here's an odd photo: my feet on the first day of our honeymoon, starting in Rome. It was insanely hot (as it ...
Liz with guidebook
My wife, Liz, loves history and a good guidebook, and as a result I've been building a mini series of photos from our travels of Liz standing reading the guidebook for wherever we are.This photo is...
Giardino di Boboli, Florence
For our honeymoon in September last year, we took a road trip through Italy, spending three nights each in Rome, Florence, Cinque Terre and Lake Lugano. Florence and Lake Lugano were definite highl...
Roman grandeur round every corner
Another photo from Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, this time around the back looking across Piazza Giovanni Paolo II. The sun during our three days in Rome was insane and it stayed uncomforta...