Images of Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon in the United States. Taken in October 2018. “Las Vegas (Spanish for ‘The Meadows’) is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. It was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated […]
Images of Prague in the Czech Republic taken in September 2018. “Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to […]
Images of Köln, Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Bonn and Düsseldorf in Germany. Taken in June 2018. (I lived in Köln from 2000 to 2003.) “Cologne (German: Köln) is the largest city of Germany’s most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Cologne was founded and established in Ubii territory in the 1st century AD as the […]
Images of Miami, the Everglades and the Keys in Florida, United States. Taken in April 2018. “Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States. It is nicknamed the ‘Capital of Latin America’ and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. The Miami area was […]
Images of Rome and Ostia Antica, taken in March 2018. “Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. The Vatican City is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this […]
Images of Amsterdam, taken in December 2017. “Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper. “Its […]
Images of Los Angeles, taken in October 2017. “Los Angeles (Spanish for ‘The Angels’) is the cultural, financial, and commercial centre of Southern California. With a US Census-estimated 2016 population of 3,976,322, it is the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in the state […]
Images of Niagara Falls in Canada, taken in October 2017. “Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and New York state. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge. “From largest to smallest, the […]
Images of Oxford in England, taken in August 2017. “Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire. The city is known worldwide as the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Buildings in Oxford demonstrate notable examples of every English […]
Images of Kronborg Castle, the M/S Maritime Museum and Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark, taken in June 2017. “Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør. Immortalised as Elsinore in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The castle is situated on the extreme northeastern tip of the island of Zealand at the narrowest point of […]