One of the most famous roads in history, but I don’t think I did it justice at all. In my defense the afternoon sun didn’t help 
Anyone care to take a guess where it is?
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Is it The Appian Way?
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Yep 
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Yep, it’s quite contentious too. Tax payer dollars not being used well.
Saw that
Great shots, they make the trees look really huge.
I once walked bit on the Via Appia within Rome during some vacation. I was really looking forward to that famous, historic road, just to find a rather mundane, small road with cars and no sidewalk. Was really not much fun to walk there. The part you’ve been to looks so much nicer
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I felt the same way at the start… Had to cycle a good 20-30 minutes to get to that point, but afterwards it does look like in the pictures we often see on the internet If you’re ever in Rome again I recommend renting some bikes(electric or normal) near the circus maximus and going there
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Wandered around the streets this evening. This was what I got. I kinda liked the male and female coded hairdressers next to each other. Closer and fewer bins might have helped. Tried to contrast the blue hour outside with the contrasting artificial lights of the interiors. Not sure if crushed blacks too much.
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Yesterday evening almost all businesses were closed due to approaching Tropical Cyclone Alfred. I was pleased that the local fish & chip shop was still able to sell me our usual Calamari Feast. Whilst waiting, I snapped this with my phone, my eye drawn to the menacing dark clouds in the direction of the ocean, some 30km away:
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Yes that is Lindisfarne in the distance. One of my favourite areas to come back and visit…
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I’d thought about going there when I was looking for places the night before but saw that the tide was in through the day and the causeway submerged.
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A static display or was this on an active flight line? I didn’t know any Sabres were still flying (other than in private hands maybe)…
Ha, you got me doing some research; it appears the F-86 is the most prevalent static aircraft display of all time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_North_American_F-86_Sabres
There’s one at the old England AFB, near you…
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And a Thud as well! There’s also actually an F-104 next to an office building in Alexandria.
F-104… German AF was training in these when I was at Luke AFB near Phoenix in the 70s. 190kts on final approach, with flaps 
. I think they put itty bitty wings on it just so it wouldn’t look like a missile…
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