Easter fell in March last year and I grabbed the opportunity to spend a long weekend in Barcelona. If you’ve followed my architectural taste on this blog (think of Hundertwasser in Austria and Switzerland, or Moscow’s St Basil’s), then it’ll come as no surprise that the bizarre buildings of Antoni …
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These boots … Russia and Eastern Europe
From Moscow's Red Square, where my mother and I found our feet (above; and read commentary of our trip in the September archive of Not a Ballerina), up to the Baltics and down to the Balkans, and so many memorable spots in between, the region of Russia and Eastern Europe is for me one of the most …
A roof obsession
I blame the never-ending presence of scaffolding on the Stephansdom in Vienna for my obsession with a particular kind of tiled roof, found now and again on churches and town halls around Europe. I’ve always wanted a closer look at the beautiful tiles on the cathedral in Vienna but even with more …