The Valley of Fire, Nevada
If you go to Las Vegas one day, you got to plan a day at Valley of Fire in the Nevada desert. After a few dizzying days on the Strip and the non stopping sound…
If you go to Las Vegas one day, you got to plan a day at Valley of Fire in the Nevada desert. After a few dizzying days on the Strip and the non stopping sound…
The Forty- three portraits of painters of the studio Charles Gleyre is an art work you can see at Le Petit Palais in Paris. Claude Monet, Frederic Bazille, Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir, they all…
One might expect that the name of the sculptor of the bronze Archangel adorns the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome could be Sanmartino or Canova, but it is a Flemish sculptor named Peter Anton von Verschaffelt…
Update: There have been changes in the transit fares in Athens. The ticket pass for 7 days at 14 € is now at 5 days for € 10 and the single ticket is now at…
Istanbul is a city of over 13 million inhabitants, a maze of narrow streets, boulevards and bridges mixing modernism and historical heritage. Transportation seem a little complicated, but it’s not as incomprehensible as it looks…
Francis I of France gallery is located on the first floor of the Château de Fontainebleau. Like most large rooms pageantry, it is richly decorated with wood paneling and stucco that are rarely photographed in…
I was looking for a cooking solution to go camping that would be autonomous, a minimum ecological and space saving. I looked at solar solutions and apart from GoSun Stove which is good but bulky…
I wanted to go bike camping, but in the fifties we are more cozy and I could hardly see myself leaving as a younger with 3 saddlebags and a minimum of stuff. Anyway the project…
A volute crater is a large vase of antiquity in which wine and water were mixed. This one, in white marble, was part of the garden furniture of a villa excavated in Stabies in 1749….
The crossing of the Alps from France to Italy is an easy thing today, Aliénor d’Aquitaine and Napoleon would probably have appreciated the TGV 😉 A great opportunity to use the train as a travel…
This fresco discovered in Pompeii represents two magnificent Roman warships armed with rams at the bow. A rare work that gives us an idea of the colours and the presence of these ships from which…
God, athlete or family member The votive figurines have existed since prehistoric times but will take their large scale expansions among the Greeks. Made of terracotta, the Tanagras had a craze that exceeded the borders…