I've started combining my travel illustrations with a bit of creative writing.
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We hit the streets at rush hour and fought through traffic along narrow roads, against wide busses, and between the press of cars coming across blind intersections.
Everyone in competition for a place in line to get to the places we were all going. Lots of honking. People on foot took their chances.
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Borgo di Val Saguna.
Rodolphe Töpffer & Karl Girardet from "Voyages en zigzag" by Rodolphe Töpffer, Paris: 1844
Temple of Aesculapius, Villa Borghese.
Jean-Baptiste Isabey, from "Voyage en Italie," Paris: [1823]
Palace of Donn'Anna.
Jean-Baptiste Isabey, from "Voyage en Italie," Paris: [1823]
The Appennine Colossus at Pratolino.
Jean-Baptiste Isabey, from "Voyage en Italie," Paris: [1823]
Elon Musk was on hand to award fascist Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni an award from the Atlantic Council last night.
He said she was “someone who is even more beautiful on the inside than she is on the outside.”
Pisa
#Abandoned indoor garden features the remains of a rockery, and what was once a spiral-armed water feature. Wicker lanterns are suspended from the ceiling hanging on sturdy chains. At one end, a large fan-shaped window leads into a smaller greenhouse. Vines and branches reach in through smashed windows, and creep across the floor in an attempt to reclaim this magical place.
Explore more #photos and learn the history -
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/villa-scorpio-greenhouse-italy/
