Speechless

The Capitol Building in Washington DC – from a safe distance.

… no comment today.

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  1. … or maybe one short comment: yesterday’s footage on the TV news about what happened at the Capitol may have left me pretty speechless, but many others did have something to say afterwards. Out of the countless quotes I read today I pick one made yesterday by the last previous Republican US president, George W. Bush: “This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic – not our democratic republic. I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement.”

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Pompeii & Herculaneum

As promised in the previous Blog post, with its overview of my recent trip to Naples, I now bring you a post that concentrates entirely on Pompeii and Herculaneum, both of which I visited from Naples as day excursions during that recent trip.

Both places were wealthy ancient Roman cities that were destroyed in a catastrophic two-day eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius in (probably) October 79 CE. The first phase of the eruption produced a gigantic column of pumice and volcanic ash, which, when it collapsed, began to rain down volcanic material mainly over Pompeii, whereas

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Back from Naples

I’ve meanwhile returned from my eight-day trip to Naples, Italy, which I also used as a base for excursions to Pompeii and Herculaneum. As before I’ll provide a brief first overview and photo essay with shots taken by smartphone, while the photos taken with my proper dSLR camera still await processing. But the smartphone images are good enough for this purpose of a quick overview.

As a first image, here’s a panoramic shot of the city taken from a hilltop terrace next to Castel Sant’ Elmo – with Mount Vesuvius looming large in the background

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Rapideum, or: DT and Football

This post features something in my adopted home city of Vienna. Recently I paid a visit to the “Rapideum”. That’s the name of the museum of the football club Rapid Vienna (official full name: Sportklub Rapid, hence the abbreviation SKR), originally a working-class club of western Vienna (Hütteldorf). I had read about this museum in a book about hidden gems in Vienna and when I learned that the museum doesn’t shy away from the darker aspects of the club’s history, I was keen to go. I wasn’t disappointed. Read on …

Of course, much of the museum

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