Photo of the Week - Dublin Houses

Colours, originally uploaded by Tolby.

Sorry for the delay ....This week a shot of some brightly painted houses close to Dublin castle.

Photo of the Week - Valetta from Vittoriosa

Valetta from Vittoriosa, Malta, originally uploaded by Tolby.

Valetta, the capital of Malta is on a small headland that is built as an awesome fortress. Before they built Valetta, the Knights of Malta had a fort in Vittoriosa (then called Birgu, the Maltese name) which is where they were during the Siege of Malta when the Turks attacked them for ages and amazingly they survived.

All the stone has a kind of golden colour, being mainly sandstone I think, and it erodes pretty fast too.

The view you see here from Vittoriosa looks accross the famous Grand Harbour.

Photo of the Week - Ornö

On the trail of the missing lawnmower, originally uploaded by Tolby.

Ok, so it has been more than a week. To make up for it I'll put here a midsummer photo of the lovely house we stayed in on Ornö, a lovely island in the Stockholm archipelago.