Incredible trip, amazing photos, bumps Italy up a few notches on my personal list. Fun fact, taking Communion in a Catholic church without yourself being a Catholic in good standing is extremely, extremely verboten. Did you not know this, or are you so based that you simply didn't care?
As an Aussie who was living in Europe for a bit, the history on display really is amazing.
It might be a bit different for you, having originally come from a country that's also home to millenium old architecture, but landing in London was legitimately the first time I'd ever seen a building older than 200 years old.
Unfortunately as much evidence of Aboriginal habituation of Australia was destroyed as physically possible, up to and including large feats of geotechnical engineering (feats like rerouting rivers to more easily catch fish in automated traps https://blog.doublehelix.csiro.au/fishing-machine/, or permaculture forests down south in Tasmania) being turned into things like gravel pits; so a lot of our history has been lost.
Actually, on second thought, it was almost certainly in Japan that I first saw historical architecture; but the retrofuturism of Japanese cities is really what caught my attention there (and the trains!)
Seagulls are the same everywhere, I think. Once, years ago, I was at the San Francisco Zoo with my wife and daughter, and while we were having lunch, a seagull swooped in and snagged the hot dog right out of the bun my daughter was holding. The vendor gave us another one free when we told her what had happened.
Not a coincidence. I visited in 2022; according to a tour guide, the government knowingly allowed a terror attack on the synagogue some decades ago and now provides a gendarme by way of apology.
Incredible trip, amazing photos, bumps Italy up a few notches on my personal list. Fun fact, taking Communion in a Catholic church without yourself being a Catholic in good standing is extremely, extremely verboten. Did you not know this, or are you so based that you simply didn't care?
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As an Aussie who was living in Europe for a bit, the history on display really is amazing.
It might be a bit different for you, having originally come from a country that's also home to millenium old architecture, but landing in London was legitimately the first time I'd ever seen a building older than 200 years old.
Unfortunately as much evidence of Aboriginal habituation of Australia was destroyed as physically possible, up to and including large feats of geotechnical engineering (feats like rerouting rivers to more easily catch fish in automated traps https://blog.doublehelix.csiro.au/fishing-machine/, or permaculture forests down south in Tasmania) being turned into things like gravel pits; so a lot of our history has been lost.
Actually, on second thought, it was almost certainly in Japan that I first saw historical architecture; but the retrofuturism of Japanese cities is really what caught my attention there (and the trains!)
This was delightful.
Cemetery Man is fantastic!
I feel like I was there! Looks so fun and delish
Seagulls are the same everywhere, I think. Once, years ago, I was at the San Francisco Zoo with my wife and daughter, and while we were having lunch, a seagull swooped in and snagged the hot dog right out of the bun my daughter was holding. The vendor gave us another one free when we told her what had happened.
LOL. Your modeling is the real hidden gem. The talent there, it just points out that you’re in the wrong profession, ultimately.
Also, you did us honor with that Civ 5 reference. Steam claims I’ve played 1200 hours of that, roughly. That can’t be.
Not a coincidence. I visited in 2022; according to a tour guide, the government knowingly allowed a terror attack on the synagogue some decades ago and now provides a gendarme by way of apology.
Interesting. This seems to be what you're referring to: https://www.timesofisrael.com/italy-to-probe-claims-government-enabled-1982-terror-attack-on-rome-synagogue/
The allegation is still denied, so it doesn't seem that the gendarme is part of an official apology.