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Roger and Annies travels through Europe...


04 October

Paying Attention
Being talk to
Being talk to
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The guides were mostly good and this one was good. Giving really clear explanations of the builing and its history
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Cloisters


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I am always impressed by the knowledge that you need periods of quiet reflection to clear the mind. They must have had really clear minds
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Ceiling detail


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archangels up to something, there are so many Bible stories depicted in the pictures its impossible to go back to your school days and RE to remember them
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Repairing Mosaic
Repairing Mosaic
Repairing Mosaic
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This chap is a German repairing the Mosaic on the step just insid the chapel.

Interesting system of inserting 1 Euro to get more light on the ceiltin Mosaic's

TIP Have some ready

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Ceiling detail


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Cappella Palatina
Christ giving the blessing
Christ giving the blessing
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This is something else, not only the claim to have more square feet of mosiac than anywhere else the mix of styles is captivating
Posted by: panton - 05:25 PM
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In the mountains
Central Scicilly
Central Scicilly
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crossing the central plain on our way to Palermo and to see the Dumo Cappella Palatina.

This is something else, not only the claim to have more square feet of mosiac than anywhere else the mix of s

Posted by: panton - 05:19 PM
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03 October

Temple of Hercules


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The labours of, this temple has 8 columns so one labour too many
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Temple of Concord
Concordia
Concordia
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This temple has more of a colourful history, built to the Greek god then used by the Romans the Byszantines wanted to knock it down, but quick thinking Sicillians converted it into a Christian Church and so it remainined until 1700 when it was restord to its original style. No Wars or Earthquakes
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Valley of the Temples
Temple of Hera
Temple of Hera
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They call this the valley of the temples simply to trade off the name "Valley of the Kings"they really don't have to do this the site has some four temples a necropolis and other ancient ruins.

The main ones are:-
Temple of Hera
Temple of Concord
Temple of Hercules
Temple of Zeus
Temple of Castor & Pollux
All build tin the 5th Century BC

This temple was built out of sandstone, other mainly limestone. Sandstone is so soft the Greek painted the stone with a limstone wash to create a lay of harder material to protect the building.

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02 October

Kaos Pool
Pool
Pool
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Some of the adventures inspect this pool, it really looked great and very big. However there are problems with part of the pool side begining to separate from the supports.

Not really all that encoraging...

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Sicilly - Hotel Kaos
Kaos by Moonlight
Kaos by Moonlight
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Hotel Kaos, this hotel has seen better days, even years. Thankfully out most of the day so not really a problem. Apart from the indifferent food.

The journey took five hours longer than we anticiated due to problems with the plane not being in the right place at the right time.

We were never able to get to the bottom of this...

Posted by: panton - 04:15 PM
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