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19-09-22 - Nest on our window sill.
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19-09-22 - Mother pigeon, wary.
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19-09-22 - Tidying up round her doorway.
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19-09-22 - Neighbourhood.
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19-09-22 - A bus to wherever.
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19-09-22 - The Altamura sinkholes and museum today.
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19-09-22 - Framework digital map of the cave system.
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19-09-22 - We'uns, not spelunking today.
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19-09-22 - Serious caving gear.
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19-09-22 - He fell down into the cave long ago.
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19-09-22 - Viewing the sinkhole.
We go on an extended walk cross-country.
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19-09-22 - Down.
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19-09-22 - Rudimentary steps.
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19-09-22 - Fig clinging to the cliffside.
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19-09-22 - We were over there.
See cliffside figures near centre.
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19-09-22 - Looks like autumn crocus.
But our guide says no.
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19-09-22 - Modern latifundium.
The Romulans invented industrial-scale agriculture. Big farms,
run by slaves, owned by senators and speculators. Ruined the
country according to Pliny, the Elder.
19-09-22 - Fido followed us for kilometers.
Obviously weak and thirsty. He disappeared when we entered the next town.
19-09-22 - Mantis.
19-09-22 - Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Column drum. A recycled bit of old architecture to make a crude
fence. Could even have been Roman.
19-09-22 - Back at the hotel for dinner - fantasy.
I had grandiose plans to use this picture, and one of yours truly, to
photoshop myself into a Henry VIII impression with gold-plated codpiece and
bow legs, and my torso on top. I owe this absurd fantasy to a recent trip to
the NASA facilities at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
19-02-19 - "I'm 'Enery the 8th ...
I am, I am." Was an English pop song, way back.
- Web: Henry 8th armour and codpiece.
19-09-22 - Outside this evening's eatery.
19-10-10 - Outside our hotel room window.
Voluble teenagers at 1:00am.
19-10-10 - Resident pigeon, sitting on her eggs.
The container turned out to be a nesting box, containing, apparently, a kestrel.
More pictures to come.