7 days ago by Alison

Tagged: domtoren, gothic architecture, photography, siteseeing, Utrecht, wordless wednesday

29 days ago by Vibri Wulandari

Date of Travel: March 2008 and October 2009 Unlike our first trip to Paris, the second and third ones actually made me say, "I think Paris stole my heart". I think it's because we had more time to enjoy the city, food and culture instead of just rushing from one tourist site to another until I almos ...

29 days ago by Fernanda Peruzzo

Although the historical background, the major attraction in Rouen is this church below, one of the gothic masterpieces in the country: the Notre-Dame-de-Rouen is the highest cathedral in France, with 151 meters high. The building also served as subject of the series of 31 canvas painted by Claude Mo ...

66 days ago

Preview of Callfas10′s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Segovia, Spain Entry Title: “The Best Gothic Architecture EVER” Entry: “This was the day we traveled from Madrid ...

70 days ago by ms6282

Edinburgh New Town is renowned as an archetypical example of Georgian town planning and neo-classical architecture. During our recent weekend break we stayed in a hotel in the New town in a street of Georgian town houses built during the second phase of development. The hotel occupied four such hous ...

77 days ago by Tony Boughen

click photo to enlarge The exterior of Ely Cathedral looks its best, in my opinion, from a distance of several miles as it rises above the small city on a low eminence in the flat Fenland landscape. To someone who is familiar with English cathedrals the exterior of Ely is a decided oddity, and the c ...

91 days ago by arybin

NOVA’s Building the Great Cathedrals is now available to watch on the PBS website. Take a dazzling architectural journey inside those majestic marvels of Gothic architecture, the great cathedrals of Chartres, Beauvais and other European cities. Carved from 100 million pounds of stone, some cathedral ...

96 days ago by Alison

This week’s photo challenge post will probably be a two-parter, because I got so much inspiration today while walking through town. My first thought was to photograph some of the windows at St. Maarten’s Cathedral, the French-Gothic cathedral in the center of Utrecht. Pictured above is the north tra ...

100 days ago by Tony Boughen

click photo to enlarge There's no easier way to announce yourself as an outsider to this area of Lincolnshire than by pronouncing the name of the village of Osbournby phonetically, just as it's written i.e. "Ozbornbi". For reasons that I'm sure few, if any know, the local pronunciation is "Ozzenbi". ...

101 days ago by Kathy Hester geekypoet

Saturday we had our annual Gothic dinner party and I have to say it was our best one yet! Everyone brought super yummy treats that they made themselves, and of course Cheryl transformed the house into an amazingly spooky haunted house. I took today off work, but I’m trying to decide if I should be t ...