Monday 5 November 2012
Vatican Museum doesn't mind one taking pictures (except in the Sistine Chapel), so here's a few... erm... pictures 
Monday 5 November 2012
More sensory overload... After St Peters & it's dome at some ungodly hour this morning - yes, I know - now we enter the Vatican Museum.
Monday 5 November 2012
Back outside. Statues & Swiss Guard. Despite this being Italy. And the Swiss being a neutral country. Confused?
Monday 5 November 2012
Experience of climbing to top of this dome is worth it in itself. View from the top isn't bad either, even if cloudy.
Monday 5 November 2012
Wondering round St Peter's? Don't forget to look up!
Monday 5 November 2012
Last time I was here you were able to walk up to this statue & touch it. Any ideas why they put a stop to that?
Monday 5 November 2012
A quick look inside St Peter's Basilica. Started over 500 years ago & 120 years to complete. It's a bit big in here!
Monday 5 November 2012
Up at some ungodly hour to... um. Anyhow - they really should move all these chairs - they spoil the tourist snaps
Sunday 4 November 2012
Inside San Carlo al Corso. Compared to the grey day outside, somewhat of colour overload!
Sunday 4 November 2012
The lord's (paper)work is never done
Sunday 4 November 2012
Lunch somewhere around the Spanish Steps. Meat balls & veggies & wine & coffee & cake. Someone enjoyed it
Sunday 4 November 2012
Passing shops in Rome. Can't work out if ability to buy $3000 handbag is proof craftsmanship lives, or of stupidity & wretched excess. Both?
Sunday 4 November 2012
Trinità dei Monti, top of the Spanish Steps: one of the more modest religious places we've seen here.
Sunday 4 November 2012
Pretty grey day in Rome. Seems to warrant some B&W shots as we walk from Piazza del Popolo to the Spanish Steps.
Saturday 3 November 2012
In & around Piazza Navona at dusk. A little sightseeing, a little snack. I have to admit to rather enjoying it here.
Saturday 3 November 2012
Passing St Peter's Square (we stayed in a hotel close by): Pratiwi showing the scale of the pillars that surround it.
Saturday 3 November 2012
'Serious' shot in the pillars surrounding St Peter's Square. From the curve you might gather, the 'square' is not
Saturday 3 November 2012
Centre of Florence to centre of Rome (literally right next to Vatican). Amazingly a completely uneventful drive. 2½ hours. #NoSpeeding 
Friday 2 November 2012
Hoped for beautiful last ride in Tuscany today. Instead, out for 30mins & got soaked. Oh well, can't win them all. #DoNotTrustTheForecast
Thursday 1 November 2012
Thought I'd gone terribly on last ride. Just found out it was 20km longer than measured thanks to bad wheel magnet calibration! #relief
Thursday 1 November 2012
My grey-haired father has just sent some pictures of him white water rafting in Nepal. Looked like proper rafting too! Not bad old man!
Tuesday 30 October 2012
A little treat this evening: Schwarzwald Imker honey schnapps (from our travels in Germany) & chocolate bread. Yum 
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Wondering back to catch the bus home (20 mins from here)... Florence Cathedral by night.
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Back in Piazza della Repubblica. Oh, a merry-go-round. In the dark. Always good for a bit of photographic fun! 
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Post Uffizi Gallery... Piazza della Signoria at dusk.
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Just saw dude using a Galaxy Note. Amusingly he had numeric keypad on screen & was tapping away at it like he was stuck in the 90s. Doh!
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Remember when the postal service was cutting edge technology? From those days I guess: post office by Pd Repubblica.
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Piazza della Signoria. Plus a couple from the terrace of the near by Uffizi Gallery (which is mentally exhausting!).
Tuesday 30 October 2012
In & around Piazza della Repubblica. Local's tip: La Rinascente has a top floor café with views over the rooftops.
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Random walk in Florence today. Some skewed views of cathedral as we pass, trying (& failing) to avoid crowds. Busy!
Monday 29 October 2012
Riding in the cold sure saps the strength - 5°C out there today! Clear & sunny, but that didn't help... aside from providing a nice view
Monday 29 October 2012
Hello my Aussie friends. Is there a tactful way to bring this up? Please try to 'move a little more, eat a little less' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...
Saturday 27 October 2012
Lunch at Casa del Prosciutto. Here's the entrée of... erm... prosciutto of course, plus some accompaniments
Thursday 25 October 2012
Great ride in Chianti region today. Autumn colours on vines beautiful in the afternoon sun. Sorry, no pics. Having too much fun to stop
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Looking out from the walls of San Gimignano... beautiful Tuscan countryside.
Wednesday 24 October 2012
San Gimignano: in time for a look about today. Tough place to shoot. Bright sky, lots of towers, lots of tourists!
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Love autumn colours in the vineyards. Great views everywhere in Tuscany at the mo. Well - year round I'm guessing!
Wednesday 24 October 2012
San Gimignano from a hillside nearby. Shame about whoever that is having a bonfire - you can't win them all. Doh! 
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Macelleria Falorni, Greve in Chianti. On this site for almost 300 years! Best butchers shop I've ever been in!
Wednesday 24 October 2012
A few scenes from Greve in Chianti before lunch. Lovely little village.
Tuesday 23 October 2012
What a beautiful day. Perfect ride this arvo, then relax with little plate of cheese & 'saucisson' by the vines
Tuesday 23 October 2012
@JayScott84 "They should make it legal to run over cyclist!" Lives in London, spreads hate messages. Isn't that illegal in UK? @metpoliceuk
Monday 22 October 2012
Few of the dishes on offer tonight. Dinner in 'The Cave' under our house with the other guests. Very nice it was too.
Monday 22 October 2012
@inrng The way you tell it UCI don't think they've done wrong & won't change. Very, very sad. Can you say, "Breakaway cycling body"?
Monday 22 October 2012
Plenty of people were out on Sunday looking for these, & a couple today. Think we'll leave it to the experts though!
Monday 22 October 2012
When walking in a forest and admiring the autumn colours... don't forget to look up!
Monday 22 October 2012
Introducing Pratiwi to the joys of playing with autumn leaves
Monday 22 October 2012
The view from above: looking down on the forest around Vallombrosa.
Monday 22 October 2012
After cycling through this forest the day before, had to go back with Pratiwi & the camera. Beautiful autumn colours!
Sunday 21 October 2012
Today's ride to Passo della Consuma & Vallombrosa. Stunning autumn colours descending through forest near the latter.
