Another stop on the Budapest whirl wind tour is St Stephen’s Basilica. One of the top ten most photographed buildings in the world it’s named in honour of Stephen, the first King of Hungary. Apparently his mummified right hand is rather gruesomely still housed in the Basilica’s relic shrine. Today, it is the third largestContinue reading “St Stephen’s Basilica”
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Vatican city, steps and icecream
Off to Vatican City on my non stop tourism quest. Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the world by area, and also the world’s least populated. (Cheers Wikipedia, as always) First up St Peter’s Square and Basilica. St Peter’s is a late Renaissance church with the largest interior of any Christian church inContinue reading “Vatican city, steps and icecream”
Venice Nov 2008
Back through the whirling mists of time now peeps, back to a fantastic break to Venice, the elaborate, gorgeous, decaying, sinking city of canals, mists and gondolas. We arrived in the dark to find the B and B we had chosen had doubled booked our room and had an alternative for us for one night.Continue reading “Venice Nov 2008”