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| rich knopman | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> London and Italy, May 7-21, 2008 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 we stayed with vik and joni about 500 meters from victoria station (R) |
 walking around city of westminster by the parliament building (R) |
 big ben the clock (R) |
 millenium bridge for our walk back across the thames (R) |
 at sainsburys-- gross hot dogs in a can (R) |
 vik and mohan (R) |
 we had a great lunch at the duke of wellington pub up at notting hill along portobello road (R) |
 stalls and stores along portobello road (R) |
 royal mail notting hill office (G) |
 sign in kensington gardens points to lots of places (R) |
 not your usual wide vehicle (G) |
 gorgeous kensington gardens (G) |
 storefront near knightsbridge (G) |
 next step harrods- theres some beautiful marzipan fruit (R) |
 more expensive caviar at harrods (R) |
 mannekin looking out over harrods escalator |
 theres mo and a sign for his diner at harrods (R) |
 harrods corner entrance (R) |
 galina happy carrying mohan (R) |
 pretty peach rose in london (G) |
 fish and chips at the local pub- joni, vik and mohan (R) |
 thanks Joni for introducing us to yummy warburtons crumpets (R) |
 sign warning trucks that the trees lean (R) |
 thanks harold for the idea to ride a thames tour boat-here's the london tower bridge (R) |
 vik and mohan on thames tour boat (R) |
 first shop in the world-nauticalia, in greenwich (R) |
 thats where vik works for google (R) |
 galina and rich go from london to venice via ryanair (R) |
 along the main drag after meeting zach and adryon in venice (R) |
 cool bedroom in our apartment on the canal in venice (R) |
 theres ginos - great homemade italian cooking (R) |
 best gnocchi ever at ginos on the tourist strip - we were pleasantly surprised (R) |
 rich is happy galina can eat dairy-free pizza - and it's good (R) |
 zach and adryon leave venice to go to florence ahead of us (R) |
 we loved walking around venice (R) |
 hard not to fall in love with venice (R) |
 rich enjoying prosecco at venice campo (G) |
 still pondering the difference between a piazza and a campo (G) |
 no cars, only foot or boat (R) |
 hey theres some cool pasta here (R) |
 looking down the grand canal from the ponte rialto (R) |
 piazza san marco campanile-bell tower (R) |
 edge of piazza san marco and tile roof expanse of venice (R) |
 cool teeny island of san giorgio maggiore with church (R) |
 view of doges palace and eastern tail of venice (R) |
 venice canal multiple bridges and multiple gondoliers (R) |
 crowded small canal without street in venice (R) |
 narrow streets at calle correr (R) |
 excellent kosher food in the jewish quarter-galina sure is hungry, rich is on a diet (R) |
 meeting up with Adryon and zach in firenze-cool heart-shaped pizza (G) |
 at entrance to da vinci museum-mona lisa impersonator (R) |
 and the real mona lisa (G) |
 da vinci museum-bicycle (R) |
 inside a design store--murder knife block for sale (R) |
 funky foot gloves at shoe store (R) |
 tons of bicycles parked here at the duomo (R) |
 long row of scooters stretches the entire block (R) |
 lots of statues above entrance to the duomo (R) |
 head detail of the david outside palazzo vecchio (R) |
 huge selection of meats and salamis and some cheese (R) |
 Zach and Rich safely navigated our way out of firenze (R) |
 entering san gimignano in tuscany (R) |
 view of tuscan hillside at our farmhouse outside of san gimignano (R) |
 view from galina and rich's patio (G) |
 galina walking with groceries back to our farmhouse - podere casanuova (R) |
 rich and zach at our tuscan farmhouse (G) |
 homemade dinner on the patio, wine, crickets, fresh country air... (R) |
 after dinner and a lot of laughs-zach adryon galina and rich (R) |
 front of fattoria san donato (small local winery) (R) |
 view of tuscany from winery-fattoria san donato (G) |
 zach adryon and rich pose near winery (G) |
 recommendation from san donato to see reno schultz in san gimignano (R) |
 various farm implemnts on wall and olive oil on table (R) |
 front of fattoria san donato with foozball table (R) |
 little relief sculpture and gate in san donato (G) |
 tuscan poppy flowers (G) |
 lyre-shaped window bars (G) |
 vineyards and tuscan countryside (G) |
 tuscan winery number 2 (G) |
 zach and adryon taking in yet another magnificent view near tuscan winery number 2 (G) |
 cool painting over walkway at church courtyard in san gimignano (G) |
 zach and adryon in san gimignano (G) |
 san gimignano suburbs from hilltop (G) |
 rich ready to eat worlds greatest gelato (G) |
 cool wine bottles in shop in san gimignano (G) |
 family with unicyclist daughter in small san gimignano street (R) |
 san gimignano towers (R) |
 san gimignano towers (G) |
 theres the flautist playing to accompanying music-little kids look on (R) |
 small side street leading to tower in san gimignano (R) |
 we had dinner here at trattoria chiribiri in san gimignano (R) |
 absinthe makes the heart grow fonder while planning tomorrow in rome (R) |
 our kitchen in podere casanuova (G) |
 view from zach and adryons patio (G) |
 zach in front of podere casanuova (G) |
 our very nice host lucia (G) |
 road from farmhouse to san gimignano (G) |
 san gimignano and rolling tuscan countryside (R) |
 zach and sign to podere casanuova (G) |
 poppies near san gimignano (G) |
 grape vines and olive trees (R) |
 wonderful tuscan countryside (R) |
 bridge back into firenze (G) |
 arrival by train in rome-tower with spiral staircase (G) |
 signs for hotels-there are four hotels in this building (R) |
 on the road in walking into rome-stopped for an espresso at piazza indipedenzia (R) |
 beautiful rose-covered entryway to roman baths with headless statues (G) |
 rich and adryon being shutterbugs with cameras (G) |
 piazza della republica (G) |
 zach and adryon at piazza della republica (G) |
 galina inspired to be part of the fountain front of piazza della republica (R) |
 funky paint job on this smart car (R) |
 scooter sign with adam (G) |
 zach and adryon at basilica santa maria maggiore (G) |
 cool steps and building at basilica santa maria maggiore (G) |
 rich and galina at basilica santa maria maggiore (G) |
 zach and adryon don't realize there is more to eat in rome than gelati -galina can't believe she has found soy gelati (R) |
 roof dancers at st peters square (R) |
 st peters square with chairs (G) |
 no party sign along the tevere (G) |
 tevere and bridge (G) |
 smart car next to huge mini cooper (R) |
 smart cars doing their parking thing near vatican city (R) |
 kissing smart cars-aww-how cute (R) |
 painting over doorway in rome (G) |
 looking down off the spanish steps to shopping district (R) |
 spanish steps (G) |
 expensive store (G) |
 mini street cleaner truck (R) |
 galina adryon and zach with salad hanging from mouth (R) |
 obligatory shot of the roman colosseum (R) |
 cool view to colosseum (G) |
 tourists all around the inside of the colosseum (R) |
 rich taking pictures and zach taking in the sites at colosseum (G) |
 great shot of colosseum interior (G) |
 lady and flying chariot near the colosseum (G) |
 view of palatine hill and roman forum (G) |
 columns in roman forum (R) |
 roof dancers with pigeons-piazza venezia (G) |
 piazza venezia (G) |
 cool bar near campo de fiori (G) |
 richs yummy pizza with egg at bufettos (R) |
 wedding photos at trevi fountain (R) |
 zach and adryon at trevi fountain at night (R) |
 zach's about done with trevi fountain pictures (R) |
 zach and adryon sad to leave italy (for paris) (G) |
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