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index
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Leysin,
Switzerland
American
College of Switzerland
Leysin
village & environs
Chalet
Pollux
Kids
American
College of Switzerland
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
American
Library of Geneva
Ramsar
COP8, Spain, 2002
Ramsar
COP9, Uganda, 2005
COP10, South Korea, 2008
Standing Comm., Georgia, 2010
Ramsar COP11, Romania, 2012
Ramsar COP12, Uruguay, 2015
Travels
Index
Tunisia
1981
Scotland
1983
Turkey
1987
Scotland
1985, 1988, 1990
New
Mexico 1997
Québec
on a bicycle, 2001
Vienna,
Austria, 2003
Gran
Paradiso, Italy, 2003
Devon
& Cornwall 2003
Olympic
NP, Washington, 2004
Devon
& Cornwall 2004
Vanoise
NP, France, 2005
Uganda's
Mabamba Bay 2005
Newport,
Rhode Island, 2005
Devon
& Cornwall 2006
Newfoundland
2006
Rome,
Italy, 2006
Cinque
Terre, Italy, 2007
Northern
Ireland 2007
Maine,
USA, 2007
Corsica
hikes 2007
Back to Rome 2008
Bernese Oberland 2008
Southwestern France 2008
Southwestern France 2009
Wisconsin USA 2009
Cornwall & Devon 2009
Northern Corsica 2009
Rome 2010
Georgia 2010
Venice region 2010
Wisconsin USA 2010
Naples & Amalfi coast 2010
Florence, Pisa, Mantua, 2011
Wisconsin USA 2011
Southern Italy 2011
Northern Italy 2011
Andalucia, Southern Spain, 2011
Genoa region, Italy, 2012
Chartres, Le Mans 2012
Wisconsin USA 2012
Toledo & Madrid 2012
Sicily 2012
Ferrara & Ravenna 2013
Wisconsin USA 2013
Trento & Brescia 2013
Bologna & Modena 2014
Northern Wisconsin 2014
Aosta & the Valpelline 2014
Piemonte & Tuscany 2014
Southern France 2014
Southern Tuscany 2015
Montevideo, Uruguay 2015
Northern Wisconsin 2015
Umbria & Marche, Italy 2015
Fort Bard & Turin, Italy 2015
Parma & Emilia Romagna 2016
Sirmione, Verona, Vicenza 2016
Northern Wisconsin 2016
Viterbo, Orvieto, & Lazio 2016
Treviso, Padua in Veneto 2017
Southern Veneto, Italy, 2017
Northern Wisconsin 2017
Lisbon, Portugal, 2017
San Marino & Romagna 2017
Lodi & Lombardy sights 2018
Langhe region, Piemonte, Italy, 2018
Northern Wisconsin
Bobbio, Mondovì in Piemonte,
Torino, Canavese district, Piemonte, Italy, 2019
Northern Wisconsin, USA,
The lake in northern
3 Kentucky visits: Carter Caves , Natural Bridge , Cumberland Falls , 2020-2021
A road trip in South & North Carolina 2021
Back to northern Wisconsin & Upper Michigan 2021
The Outer Banks of North Carolina 2022
Back to Wisconsin & Upper Michigan (& Duluth) 2022
Two weeks in Rome, Italy,
Ascoli Piceno & hilltop
Wisconsin Northwoods & the UP's Keweenaw Peninsula, 2023
Three weeks in Castel Gandolfo & Naples, Italy, October 2023
Back to the Northwoods for a special Xmas party, 2023
A little background
Physiognomy:
an essay on faces
Recent
events
[Index to towns & cities in France ]
Towns
and Cities
[Index to towns & cities in Italy ]
Acqui Terme, Piemonte, Italy
Agde, southern France
Agliè, Piemonte, Italy
Agrigento, Sicily
Aigle, Vaud, Switzerland
Aigues Mortes, France
Alba, Piemonte, Italy
Albano Laziale, Lazio, Italy
Albenga, Liguria, Italy
Alcala la Real, Jaén, Spain
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Alhama de Granada, Spain
Allaman, Vaud, Switzerland
Altamura, Apulia, Italy
Amalfi,
Salerno, Italy
Aosta,
Piedmont, Italy
Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
Arles, southern France
Arquà Petrarca, Italy
Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy
Ashland, Wisconsin, USA
Asolo, Veneto region, Italy
Assisi, Umbria, Italy
Asti, Piedmont, Italy
Aubonne, Vaud, Switzerland
Avenches, Switzerland
Avignon, France
Bard, Val d'Aosta, Italy
Bari, Apulia, Italy
Barletta, Apulia, Italy
Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Bassins,
Vaud, Switzerland
Bastia Mondovì & the frescoes
Bastia,
Corsica, France
Bayfield, Wisconsin, USA
Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, France
Bergamo,
Lombardy, Italy
Bertinoro, Forlì, Italy
Besançon,
Franche-Comté, France
Béziers, southern France
Biella, Piemonte, Italy
Bobbio, Emila-Romagna, Italy
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Bolsena, Lazio, Italy
Bolzano, northern Italy
Brantôme, Dordogne, France
Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
Brisighella, Emila-Romagna, Italy
Brugnello, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Bucharest, Romania
Bulle, Fribourg, Switzerland
Burano, Veneto, Italy
Calci, Tuscany, Italy
Calvi, Corsica, France
Cannobio
and Lago Maggiore
Capri, Italy
Carcassonne, southwest France
Casale Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy
Castel Gandolfo, Lazio, Italy
Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Castiglione del Lago, Italy
Castiglione Olona, Lombardy, Italy
Cefalù, Sicily, Italy
Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Chambéry,
Savoie, France
Champagny-en-Vanoise, France
Changwon, South Korea
Chartres, Loire, France
Chioggia, Veneto, Italy
Cittadella, Veneto, Italy
Civita Bagnoregio, Italy
Civitella del Tronto, Italy
Colmar, Alsace, France
Comacchio, Emilia-Romagna
Como, Lombardy, Italy
Conques, southern France
Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Corolla, Outer Banks, NC
Corte,
Corsica, France
Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
La Couvertoirade, France
Crema, Lombardy, Italy
Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
Culpeper, Virginia, USA
Cuneo, southern Piemonte, Italy
Dijon,
Franche-Comté, France
Domme, Dordogne, France
Domodossola, Italy
Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Erice, Sicily, Italy
Escanaba, Michigan, USA
Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland
Este, Veneto, Italy
Exeter, Devon, UK
Fano, Marche region, Italy
Féchy, Vaud, Switzerland
Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Rocca di Forlimpopoli, Italy
Fossano, Piemonte, Italy
Frankenmuth, MI (Little Bavaria)
Fribourg,
Switzerland
Front Royal, Virginia, USA
Galatina, Pulia, Italy
Galena, Illinois, USA
Gandria,
Ticino, Switzerland
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Gradara, Marche region, Italy
Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Greensboro, NC, USA
Gubbio, Umbria, Italy
Houghton, UP, Michigan, USA
Huntington, West Virginia, USA
Istanbul, Turkey
Ivrea, Piemonte, Italy
Kampala, Uganda
Kobuleti, Georgia
Le Landeron, Switzerland
Le Mans, France
Lecce, Apulia, Italy
Lerici, Liguria, Italy
Lisbon, Portugal
Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
Lodi, Lombardy, Italy
Longiano, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Lu Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy
Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Lucerne, Switzerland
Lyon, Auvergne, France
Manteo, NC Outer Banks
Mantua, Lombardy, Italy
Matera, Basilicata, Italy
Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, Italy
Meyrueis, Lozère, France
Middleburg, Virginia, USA
Milan, Lombardy, Italy 2011
Milan, Lombardy, Italy 2018
Minocqua, Wisconsin, USA
Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Mondovì, Piemonte, Italy
Monselice, Veneto, Italy
Montagnana, Veneto, Italy
Montelimar, Drôme, France
Montevideo, Uruguay
Montpellier, France
Morat (Murten), Switzerland
Morges, Vaud, Switzerland
Naples, Italy
Nemi & the Lago di Nemi, Lazio, Italy
Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Novara, Piedmont, Italy
Nyon,
Vaud, Switzerland
Ollon,
Vaud, Switzerland
Nîmes, southern France
Occoquan, Virginia
Offida, Marche, Italy
Omegna, Piedmont, Italy
Ontonagon, Michigan, USA
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Orange,
Provence, France
Orta San Giulio, Italy
Orvieto, Umbria, Italy
Ostia Antica, Lazio, Italy
Ostuni, Apulia, Italy
Otranto, Apulia, Italy
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Padua, Veneto region, Italy
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Palestrina, Lazio, Italy
Paris (Louvre)
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Pavia, Lombardy, Italy
Périgueux, Dordogne, France
Perroy, Vaud, Switzerland
Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Pesaro, Marche region, Italy
Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Piazza Armerina, Sicily
Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy
Poppi, Tuscany, Italy
Prague,
Czech Republic
Prato, Tuscany, Italy
Punta del Este, Uruguay
Ragusa, Sicily, Italy
Ravello, Salerno, Italy
Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Ripatransone, Marche, Italy
Riva del Garda, Italy
Rocamadour, Lot, France
Rolle, Vaud, Switzerland
Romainmôtier,
Switzerland
Rome,
Italy
St-Céré, France
Sainte-Énimie, France
St-Flour, Auvergne, France
St-Prex, Vaud, Switzerland
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France
Salers, Auvergne, France
Saló, northern Italy
Saluzzo, Piemonte, Italy
San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy
San Leo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
San Marino
Sarlat, Dordogne, France
Sarzana, Liguria, Italy
Savigliano, Piemonte, Italy
Savona, Liguria, Italy
Scicli, Sicily, Italy
Sestri
Levante & Cinque Terre, Italy
Sète, southern France
Settimo Vittone, Italy
Sevilla, Spain
Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Sintra, Portugal
Sirmione, Lombardy, Italy
Staffarda Abbey, Piedmont, Italy
Staunton, Virginia, USA
Strasbourg, France
Subiaco, Lazio, Italy
Syracuse Ortygia, Sicily
Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy
Thonon, Haute-Savoie, France
Thun,
Switzerland
Toledo, Spain
Tournon-sur-Rhône, France
Trani, Puglia, Italy
Trento, northern Italy
Treviso, Veneto region, Italy
Turin, Piemonte, Italy
Urbino, Marche region, Italy
Venice,
Italy
Verbania, Piemonte, Italy
Vercelli, Piemonte, Italy
Vers
l'Eglise near Diablerets
Verona, Veneto, Italy
Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Vicoforte Sanctuary, Piedmont
Vienna
& Durnstein, Austria
Vignale Monferrato, Italy
Villeneuve, Vaud, Switzerland
Viterbo, Lazio, Italy
Vogogna, Piemonte, Italy
Volterra, Tuscany, Italy
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
Wells,
Somerset, England
Winchester, Virginia, USA
Winona, Minnesota, USA
Wytheville, Virginia, USA
Yvoire,
France
Zuccarello, Liguria, Italy
Zürich, Switzerland
[Index to castles in France ]
Castles
[Index to castles in Italy ]
Fortezza Medievale di Acquaviva Picenza, Italy
Acqui Terme, Castello Paleologi
Alcalá la Real, Spain
Allaman,
Switzerland
Château d'Anjony, France
Forte Malatesta, Ascoli
Fortezza Pia, Ascoli
Fort Bard, Val d'Aosta, Italy
Castello Falletti di Barolo, Piemonte
Beynac, France
Bobbio, Castello Malaspina, Italy
Bolsena, Castello Monaldeschi
Bourdeilles, Dordogne, France
Bracciano, Castello Orsini, Italy
Brescia, Italy
Brisighella, Rocca Manfrediana, Italy
British castles
Caprarola, Villa Farnese, Italy
Carcassonne, Château Comtal
Cardiff Castle, Wales
Carimate,
Italy
Castel del Monte, Italy
Château de Castelnau-Bretenoux, France
Château de Castelnaud, France
Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena, Liguria, Italy
Castiglione del Lago, Italy
Castello del Catajo, nr. Padua, Italy
Château de Chillon,
Switzerland
Córdoba, Alcázar, Spain
Corte,
Corsica
La Fortezza di Civitella del
Doe
Castle, Donegal, Ireland
Dunluce,
Northern Ireland
Durnstein, Austria
Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, Italy
Enna, Castello di Lombardia, Sicily
Erice, Castello di Venre, Sicily
Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland
Este, Castello dei Carraresi, Italy
Fenelon, France
Fénis,
Val d'Aosta, Italy
Ferrara, Castello Estense, Italy
Forlimpopoli, Italy
Fossano, Castello degli Acaja, Italy
Gradara, Marche region, Italy
Granada, Alcazaba, Spain
Grandson,
Switzerland
Grinzane Cavour, Langhe region
Gruyères,
Switzerland
Château
de Joux, France
Castelli Tapparelli di Lagnasco
Castello di Lerici, Italy
Longiano, Castello Malatestiano
Castello della Manta, nr. Saluzzo
Château de Marqueyssac, Dordogne
Melfi, Italy
Milan, Castello Sforzesco, Italy
Monselice, Castello Ezzolino, Italy
Montagnana, Rocca degli Alberi, Veneto
Château de Montal, France
Castello Roero di Monticello d'Alba
Nyon,
Switzerland
Otranto, Italy
Pesaro, Rocca Costanza, Italy
Peyrepertuse, SW France
Castello di Poppi, Italy
Château de Puyguilhem, Dordogne, France
Rimini, Castel Sismondo, Italy
Castello di Roddi, Piemonte
St Mawes, Cornwall, England
Rocca di San Leo, Marche, Italy
San Marino, Torre Cesta
Pyrgi, Castello di Santa Severa
La
Sarraz, Switzerland
Fortezze di Sarzanello, Italy
Savona, Priamar Fortress, Italy
Serralunga d'Alba, Langhe area
Sevilla, Alcázar, Spain
Sirmione, Castello Scaligero, Italy
Soave, Castello Scaligero, Italy
Spiez,
Switzerland
Syracuse, Maniace Castle, Sicily
Trani, Apulia, Italy
Trento, northern Italy
Castello di Valbona, Italy
Venosa, Basilicata, Italy
Verona, Castello Scaligero, Italy
Château de la Vigne, France
Vogogna, Piemonte, Italy
Castello di Zuccarello, Liguria, Italy
Cabanes, Huts, and Berghotels
Cabane
de Carroz
Chanrion
Iffigenalp
Cabane
d'Orny
Plan
Nevé
Cabane
Rambert
Berghotel Rosenlaui
Pension Sonnenberg
Rifugio
Vittorio Emanuele II
Wildhornhütte
Other
Grottes
de Naye
Trient
Glacier
Grottes
de Vallorbe
Grotte
à Chenuz
Luray Caverns, Virginia, USA
Col
du Marchairuz
Mountain
stuff
Index
of photo essays of the Jura, the Préalps, and other mountains
Some
long Alpine walks
The
High Route à pied
Swiss
Alpine Pass Route
A
walk to Italy and back
Deirdre's
cross-Suisse hike, 1982
Hikes
in Gran Paradiso, 2003
Index
of photos of snowcaving and camping in Switzerland
Index
of snowshoeing pix
Limestone
holes of the Jura in winter
Tourist trains of Europe
Farms
of the Jura in winter
Cats with attitude
Swiss towns and villages
Collectibles: odds and ends
Anthills
of the Jura
Forest
refuges of the Jura
Steamships
of Lake Geneva
Running
wherever
World
records in relays of the previous century
Monster
running routes in the Swiss Alps
Large
stories
Castle-Come-Down
Derborence
Bibliography
(Trail of Blood)
List
of scholarly writings, mainly on the 16th century, some reprinted here.
Dwight Peck's personal website
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.
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