Statues of Galileo and Michelangelo outside the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence
Japanese Shinkansen (Bullet Train)
Dutch prowess in Wind Mills
Mona Lisa...The 'most famous painting ever made' behind layers of high security glass.
The Holy Grail
'neath ancient Roslin waits.
The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates.
Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies.
She rests at last beneath the starry skies.
~ from the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence. Tombs of Galileo, Michelangelo, Marconi, Fermi, Machiavelli are all in here.
Miscellaneous
The Power of
Wind
The da Vinci
trail
(The Louvre Museum, Paris)
The
Renaissance Trail
(Florence, Italy)
Backwaters of Kerala
Who is
more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher
purpose for life? For a thousand years we have scrabbled after fish heads,
but now we have
a reason
to live: to learn, to discover, to be free!
~ from Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
While on a trip to Kerala in Dec 08, got to see and click this Rare Smiley with the Moon, Venus and Jupiter
"..here the
language of stone surpasses the language of man."
~ Rabindranath Tagore on Konark Sun Temple
