Tag: photography
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Discovering St Paul’s Church: A Hidden Gem in London
St Paul’s Church, aka The Actors’ Church, Bedford St, London You may have seen the entrance to this church yourself. I have – many times – but I normally have somewhere to go, an appointment I’m late for, but the other week I stopped. And I’m so glad I did. St Paul’s church is known…
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The lost Botanical Garden of Siena
If you’re thinking, hmmm that photo above doesn’t look like a garden, you are quite right. But when we went searching for the Sienna Botanical Gardens on a recent trip this is where the map took us. There was a patch of grass outside that didn’t look exactly botanical so we soon gave up. (The…
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Exploring Balloonomania: Paris’s 18th Century Craze
I was lucky enough to spend lots of time in Paris last year, and fell in love with the Musee Carnavalet. There were lots of insta influencers taking photos in the garden there, just as I imagine there would have been when Balloonomania hit Paris in 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers first took to the…