Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Taormina 2019
The Necropolis is situatated just outside the town of Taormina.
In a wooded area along the Via Lurgi Pirandello, is a stretch of ancient wall with rows of recesses symmetrically arranged one above the other. These are not Roman ruins, as we might too hastily imagine, but the remains of an old Byzantine cemetery, probably used [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2019
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Science & Nature, Taormina 2019
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Rumi
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 9th 2019
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Out & About
… of the cooling towers
On Friday I climbed the Wrekin Hill, as did many other local people. The Wrekin was a good vantage point to watch the controlled demolition of the iconic cooling towers that have been prominent in the Ironbridge Gorge since the 1960s.
I am sad to see them go, they were part of [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 8th 2019
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
Today is the day! I completed 1000 miles walking in 2019
There were jobs around the house that I needed to do today and I was so close to my target that I didn’t want to risk completing my miles doing housework. Nor did I want to complete my miles on a local walk [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 4th 2019
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Out & About
Yesterday Mr C and I had an afternoon in Ironbridge so that I could photograph the iconic cooling towers from Dale End Park. They are scheduled for demolition at the end of this week. I wasn’t the only one taking photos, many others had the same idea. I could tell that some of the photographers [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2019
