Sveti Marka, Zagreb This is St. Mark's Church in Old Zagreb, Croatia.  As you can see in this photo, when we were there they were ...

Half-Dome  Half-Dome is an iconic granite peak in Yosemite National Park.  It is very beautiful, and definitely something to put on yo...

eXcitement: Thanksgiving Day parade   This is the small town of Lansdale, Pennsylvania.  And this is their Thanksgiving Day Parade, he...

why am I looking so grumpy? :=)  Perhaps the lack of dinner the previous night  This is the Wawona Hotel at the edge of Yosemite Natio...

Yours truly standing in front of a damp St. Peter's Basilica    What an utterly incredible place this is.  Hubby and I were gobs...

lots of umbrellas just hangin' around This is what comes of looking up in a shopping arcade in Melbourne CBD.  Mr P. and I were do...

torso in Townsville QLD Last July we headed up to Townsville in Far North Queensland for our niece's wedding. We were pleasantly...

Firewatch Tower, Sopron   We really loved Hungary when we visited as part of our big backpacking trip in our younger days.  It was s...

statues showing their rudey nudey bits off This is Bernini's fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome.  No qualms about showing off ...

stunning Queenstown I don't have a clue who the photo bombers are!  This was the Christmas we all met up in NZ for a blissfully c...

Poseidon's Temple  Here we are on our backpacking adventures when we were young and foolish.  We were staying in a very insalubri...

can you see the seals? A few years ago, we did a family trip to New Zealand with in-laws and nieces.  We had a cold Christmas Day in...

The Monastery at New Norcia New Norcia is Australia's only monastic town, founded in 1847, and a fabulous place to visit.  The bui...

Miss Marples Tea Room, Melbourne Victoria    I used to love the old Miss Marple movies with Margaret Rutherford when I was a child. S...

Remember that film Witness with Harrison Ford?  He was trying to solve a murder that was witnessed by an Amish boy, and subsequently he him...

Mr P. and his lady friend in Kaikoura New Zealand       Hubby and I have been to New Zealand half a dozen times over the last several...

a younger me and a younger Jill    This is me and my friend Jill at Tintern Abbey in Wales, in our somewhat younger days. Crumbs if I...

stunning street art in Ipswich    I love street art, and I love owls so this beautiful artwork on a traffic signal box in the histori...

See that wall?  Yep that's me leaning on it.  (Wow, look at those insane pants.)  Mr P. and I did the backpacking thing some years ago, ...

Ghent in Belgium   You know all those jokes about Belgium?  Well forget them 'cos Belgium is fabulous.  It is full of pretty an...