Category: art/photography

  •   sacred spaces.

  • Religion is, as I say, something universal and something human, and something impossible to eradicate, nor would I want to eradicate it. I am a religious person, although I am not a believer. Philip Pullman These pictures were taken from a few of the many breathtakingly beautiful churches around Italy.  I always love the feeling that becomes…

  •   ‘My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. -John Keats

  •  “My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. -John Keats

  •   words from whitman…

  • Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.   You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.”   – Walt Whitman, Leaves of…

  •   where we layed our hats, in Florence.

  • Our studio apartment in S.Maria Novella, Florence can be described as no more than, à la mode, perfectly designed in layout, filling every space so cleverly that you really didn’t feel confined at all. The windows opened wide looking onto the streets below and across to neighbouring apartments in true Italian style. It was light and airy…

  • there should be a two-year period after high school where it is socially expected that kids not work, or go to school or do anything but take road trips, read books, meet new people and take lots of pictures.. -via withshoeslikethat what a wondrous ‘une période de transition’  from adolescence to adulthood and learning about one’s…

  •   thoughts on Venice.

  • Venice, she’s relic, loved passionately, admired for all her beauty,taken advantage of, mistreated, deep in-depth, full of secrets, helpless, relentless, breathtakingly beautiful, fierce yet ravishing, seductive in nature and history, provocative, hidden, devastatingly captivating and deeply mysterious in all her ways..  how could you not fall madly, deeply in love with her. -carly macaulay

  •   “You may have the universe if I may have Italy… -Giuseppe Verdi.

  •   It’s alluring, but complicated. It’s the kind of place that can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred metres, or in the course of ten minutes. Beppa Severgnini, La Bella Figura   ZàZà Ristorante Trattoria Firenze  -Piazza del mercato centralelovely Venice..Artists Apartment, Trastvere, Roma cobble stone paths and names for…

  • Of all the places we stayed while on this wonderful adventure, this was probably the one I would say we fell in love with the most. Called the Artist Apartment set in the heart of Trastevere; it was love at first sight. From the moment the door opened and we were introduced my heart knew that this…

  • one of the most wonderful things to do is to get lost in a city that you have never seen before. the most enchanting of all our discoveries so far on this journey have come purely by accident or a touch of fate. my husband and i tend to wander with no plans or intent, except to…