Category Archives: Travel

Florence

Posted by Aiden on
Caravaggio’s Medusa.
Palazzo Pitti.
Boboli Gardens.
The Duomo from the Boboli Gardens.
Lost art?
Nefertitty?
Lion on a door on the Ponte Vecchio.
Sunset on the Arno.
Dante Street!
The tomb of Cosimo de Medici.
Donatello’s tomb at the Basilica di San Lorenzo.
The Pazzi Chapel.
The bell tower at San Lorenzo.
Tomb at San Lorenzo.
Exterior of the Pazzi Chapel.
Sculpture outside San Lorenzo.
Bronzino’s pietà inside Santa Croce.
The altar at Santa Croce.
Donatello’s ‘Annunciation’ inside Santa Croce.
Memorial to Dante Alighieri.
Palazzo Vechio during the golden hour.
Botticelli’s Primavera.
Casa Buonarroti.
Michelangelo in the Casa Buonarroti.
Santa Croce.
Statue of Dante outside Santa Croce.
Inside the Duomo.
Memorial to Sir John Hawkwood inside the Duomo.
Santa Maria del Fiore with Giotto’s campanile.
The Duomo from the tower of the Palazzo Vechio.
Dante’s death mask.
Florence.
Florence.
Floor tiles with the name of Cosimo de Medici.
Homeless Jesus.
The Duomo.
Reproduction of David outside the Palazzo Vechio.
Lion head at the Loggia della Signoria.
Palazzo Vechio at night.

Talking Turkey…

Posted by Aiden on

I love Turkey. I’ve visited the country more times than I can remember and travelled all over. I also have many friends there who are in my thoughts at the moment.

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I recall sitting in a restaurant in Fethiye a few years ago when Erdoğan first started to tighten his grip on power. I was talking to my friend Mehmet and warning him that there was something sinister about their new leader. He was most optimistic and dismissed my concerns, “I think he will be good for Turkey” was his reply. I wish he had been right and that I was wrong.

They’ve started arresting intellectuals now: Turkey ‘suspends 15,000 state education employees’ after attempted coup

I guess the book burning comes next…