Tag: World War II

• June 4, 2016

  WPC Numbers: War Memorials (World War I and II)

  Today’s entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers is just a few of the photos I collected around Europe showing the numbers of people who died in the two world wars. In Britain, every town, every village, every city has its war memorial.  It is a constructed object, such as a sculpture or a stone alcove, […]
• February 5, 2016

  11 words British people don’t actually say.

  This article is about the “British” words and phrases we don’t actually use in Britain, so if you’re planning a holiday to England, Scotland or any other part of Britain, and trying to learn some colloquialisms, scratch these from your list – the consequences of saying some of them can be a fist to the […]
• February 4, 2016

  Photographs of Salzburg, Austria

  After a two day car drive to Salzburg, Austria, I arrived with a big list of things to do in Salzburg.  I was expecting it to be cold, but instead I found Salzburg to be a mountain-surrounded retreat bathed in brilliant sunshine with clear air and perfect light for photography: This big gold ball was a mystery, […]