Images of Cleeve Hill (near Cheltenham) and Bristol. September 2020. “At 330 metres above sea level or 1,083 feet, Cleeve Hill is the highest point in Gloucestershire and is also the highest peak of the Cotswold Hills.” Bristol is a city and county in South West England. It lies between Gloucestershire to the north and […]
Images of Denver. October 2019. “Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the US state of Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.” Ref: Wikipedia. […]
Images of Tokyo. August 2019. “Tokyo forms part of the Kantō region on the southeastern side of Japan’s main island, Honshu. “Originally a small fishing village named Edo, the city became a prominent political centre of Japan when Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters in 1603. When Emperor Meiji moved the imperial seat […]
Images of Sydney. October 2018. “Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. “Indigenous Australians have inhabited the Sydney area for at least 30,000 years, and thousands of engravings remain throughout the region, making it one of the richest in Australia in terms of Aboriginal […]
Images of Auckland and Hobbiton Movie Set. October 2018. “Auckland is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the largest urban area in the country. The Māori-language name for Auckland is Tāmaki or Tāmaki-makau-rau, meaning ‘Tāmaki with a hundred lovers’, in reference to the desirability of its fertile land at the […]
Images of Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. October 2018. “Las Vegas (Spanish for ‘The Meadows’) is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. It was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. “The Grand Canyon is […]
Images of Prague. September 2018. “Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 2.6 million. […]
Images of Köln, Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Bonn and Düsseldorf. June 2018. “Cologne (German: Köln) is the largest city of Germany’s most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Cologne was founded and established in Ubii territory in the 1st century AD as the Roman Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, the first word of which is the […]
Images of Miami, the Everglades and the Keys in Florida. April 2018. “Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States. It is nicknamed the ‘Capital of Latin America’ and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. The Miami area was inhabited for thousands of […]
Images of Rome and Ostia Antica. March 2018. “Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. The Vatican City is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome […]