Random Vacation Photos

Random photos from my travels. Anything that is not a reblog, link, etc. is my own picture.

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Lake Champion, Tennessee, Nov 2019

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A crescent moon, Jupiter, and four of it’s moons

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Amazing multiple game board game box from northern Italy and dating to the 15th Century. Seen in a great temporary exhibition about castles in Spain at the highly recommended Archaeological Museum of Catalonia.

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The entrance to Montjuic Castle, located on the eponymous mountain above the wonderful city of Barcelona. I imagine that the pretty flowers were not there when it was a working fort or later when it was a notorious prison.

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Great Blue Heron at park near my house.

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View of Sagrada Familia from the top of Casa Mila.

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Mega yachts in the harbor at Barcelona.

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This reproduction of a 16th Century galley is the centerpiece of the amazing Maritime Museum in Barcelona, and frankly if it was the only thing in the museum (and it is far from it) it would still be worth the low admission price.  Also I really like that picture of the doors.

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Ancient Roman bone dice.

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View of Sagrada Familia from the roof of Casa Mila

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Barcelona Cathederal Doors

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Nero's palace reopens to the public in Rome

Razed to the ground by the Great Fire of Rome, Emperor Nero's original palace opened to the public for the first time on Friday after a painstaking ten-year restoration.

The ruins of the sumptuous Domus Transitoria, once decorated with gold leaf, precious stones and mother of pearl, lie next to a well-preserved 50-seat latrine used communally by builders and slaves.

Nero claimed to be a descendant of Aeneas – a legendary hero of the Trojan War, as Homer tells it in the Iliad – and was a big fan of Trojan heroics. He had the ceilings of his palace adorned with mythical scenes from the Trojan War, some of which are now on display at the Palatine Museum next door.

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A 5,000-year-old barley grain discovered in Aland, southern Finland, turns researchers' understanding of ancient Northern livelihoods upside down. New findings reveal that hunter-gatherers took to farming already 5,000 years ago in eastern Sweden, and on the Aland Islands, located on the southwest coast of Finland.

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Persepolis, Colossi of the Porch of Xerxes, ca. 1900. Antoin Sevruguin

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Puerta de la catedral. El Burgo de Osma.

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