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 Dwight Peck's personal website
Winter 2011-2012
Better and better.
The snows in the mountains are meeker and thinner every year, but, semi-retired now, we're taking up the slack by checking off the boxes on some great tourist destinations.
You may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.
Southern Italy, mid-October 2011
Southern Italy on the trail of Stupor Mundi. (Click on the photos to proceed.) |
Bari in Puglia |
Matera, city of biblical movies |
Castel del Monte, Barletta, Trani, Giovinazzo |
Altamura, Venosa, Melfi, Lagopesole |
Lecce for a base, and Galatina for the frescoes |
Otranto |
Ostuni "the White City", and back to Lecce |
Rome again, Rome again, jiggity jog |
Autumn hikes, September to December
Lago di Orta, and Milan for art
A long weekend to the Lago di Orta and to Milan for the Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition, 20 November 2011 |
Orta San Giulio and the Sacri Monti |
Milan for the art, then back to Orta San Giulio |
Two weeks in Andalucia, December 2011
Kristin and the Alhambra in Granada in southern Spain |
Granada, the Albayzin neighborhood |
The Alhambra of Granada |
More Granada scenes |
Alhama de Granada and hikes in the gorge |
Alcalá la Real |
A brief three days in Córdoba |
A brief three days in Sevilla |
A brief three days in Sevilla (bis) |
Back in Switzerland for the New Year -- and still waiting for the snow
January-February walks
Alison's visit, and the sources of the Toleure |
The mouth of the Aubonne |
The sources of the Toleure bis |
Snowshoes in the rain, January 2012 |
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The European Cold Wave |
Genoa, Italy, and a side trip to Savona, February 2012
A restorative February interlude |
The Genoa skyline from the rooftops |
The museums of the Strada Nuova |
Genoa in hard hats |
Savona, and the Fortezza del Priamar |
More walks in the winter (if you can call it that)
Mont Bailly, and other February hikes |
Luxuriating in the March sunshine |
March 2012 views in the Jura |
Dog-walking on Grand Cunay, and more |
Penultimate hikes of Winter 2011-2012 |
Chamois on La Dôle, limestone holes near Mont Tendre, May 2012 |
Chartres, Le Mans, and the Louvre, April 2012
Chartres Cathedral |
A first look-round beautiful Chartres |
A side trip to Paris for art, etc. |
A fairly thorough look around Chartres |
A side trip to Le Mans |
Back to the Louvre (more art, etc.) |
A last day in Chartres |
What’s next? A two-week meeting of all the 160 governments and observers in early July, in Bucharest, Romania, possibly a nightmare in the “Palace of the People”! Then another lengthy sojourn amongst the hydrobikes in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Then . . . on verra.
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 17 May 2012, updated 27 September 2013.
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