A visit to an old church always demands reverences but here in Youghal, St. Mary’s Collegiate Church held a deep magic that almost brought us to tears. At over 800 years old, the care with which it has been maintained tells everything about its importance as a place of worship, ceremony and social cohesion for […]
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‘Stortinget’, in the centre of Oslo, is an intimidatingly grand building and well deserving of a captured image during my meanderings through this beautiful city. Had I been here during the day, and more specifically, on a Saturday, I might have had the chance of a guided tour if I was one of the first […]
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Here in the imposing space of Doha International Airport a single traveler makes her way alone amid the glass, the concrete, the marble, the plastic, and the metals. This rare found moment of punctuated quiet is really not scarce at all in those spaces between the disembarking throngs of travelers, just hidden between the pulse […]
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There is a defining moment when the natural twilight over the land begins to dim and the lights of civilization briefly reach a balance. The timing of that moment can not be determined in advance. It depends on the way the daylight is drawn away in cloud and sky and haze and the waking of […]
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Looking down on Mozart’s own town I can almost hear the music that made one of Austria’s own renowned. To the left is the Festung Hohensalzbur standing proud over the Salzburg Cathedral and the old city while the river Salzach cuts through right through Salzburg dividing old and new. Ah the sounds, look at the […]
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