Holiday lights and a beggar on Čopova Street, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15-Dec-2015.
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Predil Lake Notebook (and a Frozen Alpine Lake Ice Composition)
In Transit: Marano Lagoon
Nature Climate Change study: Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years.
Glaciers in the European Alps are likely to reach their peak rate of extinction in only eight years, according to the study Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century published in Nature Climate Change today (15 Dec 2025), with more than 100 due to melt away permanently by 2033. [via The Guardian.]
Holiday Lights, Nice – 2025
10 Images from the Entrevaux Cathedral
This stunning blue ceiling towers over the altar in the Gothic Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption in Entrevaux, France, a town of about 900 in the southern French Alps about 50km north of Nice.
Continue readingHow to Retrieve Your Wallet from a Pickpocket on a Barcelona Metro
Yelling obscenities at the top your lungs may help. No guarantees, but it worked for me.
Continue readingSix Images from the Île aux Cygnes, Paris
Or, the Isle of the Swans, a small man-made island on the Seine. At 850m long and 11m wide, it’s the third largest island in Paris.
Continue readingFive Photos from the Livraria Bertrand, the Oldest Continually Operating Bookstore on the Planet
21 Photos From the Saturday Market in Arles
Three Photos and a Video from the Vila Franca de Xira Train Station
Last Week in Nice – September 28, 2025
Nine snaps taken while out and about the past week after returning from two weeks in Tokyo. Mostly scenes from the Liberation market, topped above by Friday’s sunset as seen from the Nice-Ville Gare.
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Nice Urban Agricultural Festival – 2025
August Heatwave Among Most Severe Ever in South of France
The 11-day August heat wave that ended on Monday (17th) was deemed a ‘rare event’ by Météo-France. It ranks among the most severe ever experienced in the south of France, rivaling the historic August 2003 event, according to the French weather forecasting adminstration. It was also the second-longest recorded in August.
Continue readingVertigo at the Hotel Bristol Palace, Genoa
This is the view looking down on the elliptical pearly white and blood red staircase at the Hotel Bristol Palace in Genoa. As the headline suggests, it did inspire scenes in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’, who was a guest at the hotel in 1925 when the then-unknown filmmaker was working on his first film, ‘The Pleasure… Continue reading
Kukova Spiča – Martuljek Group, Slovenia
This was last night’s sunset lightshow reflected from Kukova Špica (2427m/ 7962ft), a peak at the western end of Slovenia’s Martuljek mountain group, widely considered to be one of the most rugged and picturesque sub-ranges in the Julian Alps.
Continue readingYes, it is a genocide.
What’s Blooming in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on April 21 2025
European State of the Climate 2024 Report: Striking east-west contrast and widespread flooding in Europe’s warmest year
Via Copernicus: Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change here are clear. 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe, with record temperatures in central, eastern and southeastern regions.