Archive for October, 2015

The church was first mentioned in the 13th Century.

It acquired its present day appearance after numerous renovation works in the year 1773 and extensive restoration in the year 1890. It was dedicated to the one of the first Roman popes – St Clement. Because of the dreaded plague that propagated throughout Istria in the 17th [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 15th 2015

The distinctive red building in Piran Square is known as the Venetian House, it was built in the mid 15th century.

One of Piran’s most eye-catching structures is the red 15th-century Gothic Venetian House with its tracery windows and balcony in the northeast of the square. There is a story attached to the stone relief between [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 14th 2015

Summer in England has arrived unseasonably late. I am not complaining, the days have been warm enough for me to enjoy sitting out on the patio reading a book watching the sun go down.

18 Comments CherryPie on Oct 13th 2015

Vulcan XH558 is reaching the end of her flying days and over the weekend she flew a couple of farewell fly past tours. I was able to stand on a grassy mound at Cosford in order to watch her fly by.
We heard her before we saw her because her approach was obscured by the Cold [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 12th 2015

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore

10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 11th 2015

Our early morning call woke us at 4.20 am and we quickly showered and packed the last few items in our cases with a view to being outside ready for our 5.30 transfer  that the Ljubljana representative had told us to expect. The room phone rang at 5 am  and when I picked it up [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 10th 2015

After breakfast, which was even more chaotic than it had been the previous two mornings, we set off towards the Museum of  Contemporary History. On the way we stopped off at one of the bookshops that we had visited the previous day so that I could buy a book about the Crusades and Crusader Knights [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 9th 2015

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