I have just returned from holidaying in Ravello, Italy. Halfway through the holiday my camera failed; the shutter stuck in the closed position and the camera view remained black! This led to an unexpected adventure into non-tourist Italy to try and track down a small camera to accompany me on my Italian travels…
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Archive for the tag 'Vacation'
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Ravello 2017
An Unexpected Adventure
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 13th 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
May the narrow rivers of our lives be widened by torrential rains of Thy blessings, and pass through vast lowlands of humbleness, self-sacrifice, and consideration for others, to enter in purity Thy Blissful Sea.
Paramahansa Yogananda
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 24th 2017
Sincerity is the way of Heaven.
Menicus
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 13th 2017
Filed under Art, Colwall 2017, Heritage, Holidays
Croome – The Landscape
The Landscape at Croome was not made as an afterthought. House and garden here form an integrated design. The park may be in the naturalistic style, based partly on the landscape paintings of Claude Gellee ‘le Lorraine’ and Nicolas Poussin and partly on ‘Capability’ Brown’s native Northumberland scenery, replacing the formal patterns of earlier periods, [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 8th 2017
Filed under Colwall 2017, Heritage, Holidays
Commodes
A signboard next to these carefully crafted and decorated wooden objects informs that they are a pair of commodes:
The name is taken from the French word for a chest of drawers. They were introduced during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715) and the style was adopted in the mid-1700s when French fashions became popular [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2017
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Wells 2017
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 6th 2017
Filed under Colwall 2017, Heritage, Holidays
Croome Court – The House
After Croome Court passed out of the hands of the Coventry family it had several owners each leaving their mark as can be seen in different rooms around the house.
In 1921 the 9th Earl set up the Croome Estate Trust, in order to ensure that the 15,000 acre estate would be preserved. However, in 1939, [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 5th 2017
