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A few more of the pictures my daughter took when in Florence are below the cut. The daughter in question is currently at a hog-roast with the local young lawyers association, which sounds like good fun!
I am currently watching a television programme about the sex trade in Pompeii - which reminded me that I had these pictures uploaded to Flickr, but I hadn't shared them. The link is only Italy, though - although there is a statue of a male with a couple of semi-naked females...
Firstly a wee bit of statuary -


All very heroic... nudity has almost always been acceptable proving that it's classical and heroic!
I love these ones -


Can you imagine living somewhere with such a lovely cloistered central courtyard? And the carvings and paintings just fascinate me.
And, last for now, the cathedral. Although we will see more of it in another post.

A close-up of that frontage -

Aren't all those carved saints and bishops wonderful?
Going back to the brothels of Pompeii - which is a bit like going from the sublime to the ridiculous - I am reminded of something very weird I saw today. Sadly somewhere where I couldn't get the camera out.
As I drove along the promenade I was stuck behind a horse-tram for 50 yards or so. Just long enough to wonder about the figure sitting on the back seat; a dark haired male in his thirties or so, wearing a small red net skirt and a pair or red 'fairy-wings', and carrying a four foot long inflated penis...
Not the sort of thing you see every day, that!
I am currently watching a television programme about the sex trade in Pompeii - which reminded me that I had these pictures uploaded to Flickr, but I hadn't shared them. The link is only Italy, though - although there is a statue of a male with a couple of semi-naked females...
Firstly a wee bit of statuary -


All very heroic... nudity has almost always been acceptable proving that it's classical and heroic!
I love these ones -


Can you imagine living somewhere with such a lovely cloistered central courtyard? And the carvings and paintings just fascinate me.
And, last for now, the cathedral. Although we will see more of it in another post.

A close-up of that frontage -

Aren't all those carved saints and bishops wonderful?
Going back to the brothels of Pompeii - which is a bit like going from the sublime to the ridiculous - I am reminded of something very weird I saw today. Sadly somewhere where I couldn't get the camera out.
As I drove along the promenade I was stuck behind a horse-tram for 50 yards or so. Just long enough to wonder about the figure sitting on the back seat; a dark haired male in his thirties or so, wearing a small red net skirt and a pair or red 'fairy-wings', and carrying a four foot long inflated penis...
Not the sort of thing you see every day, that!
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Date: 14/08/2010 09:06 pm (UTC)And you didn't follow him to ask where he was going dressed like that? LOL
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Date: 14/08/2010 09:11 pm (UTC)And yum, pig roasts! I've only been to one, and the pork was excellent!
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Date: 14/08/2010 09:53 pm (UTC)D-d had had good news about her training contract, for when she finishes her LPC next year. Nothing in writing yet, but still very positive - so going with the young lawyers for their hog roast seemed a very good way to celebrate and get to know some of them better.
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Date: 14/08/2010 09:37 pm (UTC)I wonder if Minas Tirith is full of statues like that!
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Date: 14/08/2010 09:37 pm (UTC)Great courtyard. (Palace? Monastery? I don't recognise it). You're making me wish I could go back to Florence, but twice is enough for now considering the length of my list of Places I Must Visit Before I Go Back To X. It takes time, without planes... sigh.
I hope your bloke had some friends, or found some pretty quickly. It sounds a drafty get-up!
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Date: 14/08/2010 10:00 pm (UTC)I must ask her, again, where that courtyard is - I'm sure she did tell me...
As for the bloke - there seemed to be another male dressed somewhat similarly, sitting in front of him - but he was less in my eye-line!
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Date: 14/08/2010 09:42 pm (UTC)And I so wish you'd got a pic of that guy :)
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Date: 14/08/2010 10:01 pm (UTC)I wish I'd got a picture of that guy, too.
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Date: 14/08/2010 11:04 pm (UTC)Sad, really.
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Date: 15/08/2010 12:11 am (UTC)Funny thing: I saw the same show on prostitution in Pompeii - very interesting.
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Date: 15/08/2010 08:48 am (UTC)There are a few more pictures of Florence yet... :~)
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Date: 16/08/2010 07:04 am (UTC)Thanks for sharing!
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