Time for a holiday

This is a photo of the Liège train station just before the arrival of the train that will take us to Cologne and from there to Greece for a well-deserved holiday. I wish you all a perfect summer (or winter if you're down under) and I'll be back at the end of August.

Dynasty

Having grown up in the 80s, my only Denver experience prior to going there was seeing a couple of shots of downtown Denver in the Dynasty TV show opening sequence. I tried to recreate one shot from the sequence, taken from the capitol hill and featuring a cannon. Here is my shot:

and here is the original:

Clearly things have changed in 30 years. The cannon has been moved so that the view is now obscured by the tree. There's also at least three new buildings that didn't exist in the 80s. And the original shot was taken with a much narrower angle and far closer to the the ground. But, to me, the spirit of Dynasty is still there, even though all of the show was shot in California.

Mile High

My prolonged silence was due to the fact that I was in Denver Colorado over the last ten days or so. I went for a conference but we stayed a couple of extra days and we got the chance to visit Boulder and go hiking on the hills. I will post some more photos of our Denver adventure over the next couple of days.

Canned Skywatch

I don't have any recent sky pics for today's Skywatch so here's one from my summer holidays. Enjoy!

Holiday Skywatch

As the local weather does not permit any kind of Skywatching (see previous post), I am posting a sunset shot from my recent holiday in Greece. Wish I was there...

Training session

Still on holidays in Greece, last week we witnessed a training flight by two Canadair Scooper firefighting aircraft. We knew it was a training session because they kept dumping their load of water in the sea

and then coming round

to scoop water up again.

Naples sunset

Sunset over Naples, seen from Castel Sant'Elmo. Many more sunsets here.

Watery Naples

OK, one more pic from our recent trip, just for today's Watery Wednesday. A boat coming into the port of Naples at sunset.

Pompeii city daily photo

Here's a last batch of photos from Pompeii. After this I must to revert to Liège photos, otherwise I'll have to change the name of the blog...

More Pompeii

OK, here's a few more Pompeii photos!

Up Pompeii!

My recent blogosilence was due to our long weekend in Naples. Here's proof: the ruins of Pompeii in the foreground, the guilty party in the background, a tourist contemplates the meaning of life.

Skywatch from 30,000ft

Today's Skywatch pic was taken last week during our plane ride towards Greece. Tomorrow we're flying back to Liege. More celestial wonders can be browsed here.

The bright blue skies of Greece

This is a view of the waterfront of Thessaloniki, Greece. It's been like this since we arrived.

And here's a view of the Old Town of Thessaloniki, lost in the fog and the clouds.

Last time we saw the sun

We've been in Greece since Saturday but the last time we saw the sun was during the flight, as it was setting behind the fat clouds that envelope all of Northern Greece. Bye-bye sun!

Σαν την Χαλκιδική δεν έχει!

We've been spending some time in Halkidiki, Greece. Magical sunsets are just one of the attractions...

Jet lag Saturday

Well, we're back in Liège after an epic journey across two continents and an ocean. I am jet lagged. Big time. My brain feels like this:

which also happens to be the exterior of the Experience Music Project in Seattle Center. This is the last photo I will post from our trip in the US. From tomorrow it will be back to more familiar territory.

Seattle by night

The Seattle Library at night.

Watery Wednesday from Seattle

And here's my Watery Wednesday post from Seattle. A ferry boat coming in to Seattle harbor yesterday.

Sunny Seattle

This is our second full day in Seattle and we're loving it. By the way, who said that it always rains in Seattle? Here's proof of the contrary, a gloriously sunny downtown view featuring Mt Rainier, taken from the Space Needle:

The Space Needle itself is working on its suntan:

And the Science Fiction Museum looks as weird as usual, despite the clear blue sky:

My kind of town

This is my first ever blog post from the US! We're in Seattle and I've finally got the time and internet connection to post. We've already been to Chicago so I will start with photos from there. I've taken a lot of shots but there's no way they could ever do justice to the city; I found it impressive, charming and larger than life. Here's a photo from downtown:

the Trump building basking in the sun:

and my take on the view from under the Bean in Millennium Park.