Gallarus Oratory, Dingle, Peninsula, Ireland

Gallarus (meaning either "rocky headland" or "house to shelter foreigners") is a chapel located on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. We were there on a wonderful clear day allowing us to see the islands as well as the peninsula.

( For scale) Marietta (5' 2") nearly bumped her head on the doorway.

Pulpit and detail of chapel at Napoleon's Tomb, Paris

 

From the hotel room at La Villa, Italy (The Dolomites)

 I think the Dolomites are a magical group of sandstone mountains in the North East area of Italy. We struck out for there from Venice. A lovely week or so with constantly changing views including a visit with the "iceman" in Bolzano. Here the hotel is actually higher than the clouds.

Statue in front of church and City Hall Vaduz, Lichtenstein

Sunday afternoon.... all is quiet in the center of Vaduz.

 

No flights this year so far

 We had flights to China planned. Sorry they have an unknown virus. Then we booked flights to New York from San Francisco (layover 8 days) and from JFK to Panama for a visit to the rain forest. Nope; they have the virus but now it happens to have a name. No use in worrying about the flight home to SFO from Panama.

Well, we hope to get somewhere interesting next year. I will then have had a haircut.

Some of the last days of the Panda Visit - Edinburgh Zoo -2019

 Close to the end of their visit, the pandas on loan from China, rest in the warm Edinburgh afternoon. The pandas with such a limited territory  have been shared throughout the world as ambassadors from China to many countries.  The zoo also is home to brown Pandas.

Rodin's Lovers, Rodin Museum, Paris

The Kiss