Happy Photo Friday! The first thing to appear on the site from my recent time in Bologna is…  Pasta!…
I had my first attempt at handmade Italian pasta with

Happy Photo Monday née Friday! This birds eye view is of a little cluster of rustic Sicilian cottages and farm buildings, in the dead centre of Sicily near Resuttano. It is…

Happy Photo Friday! This week saw the worlds first International Day of Happiness…, as orchestrated by the UN, and supported by the Happiness 1st Institute and the International Society

Happy Photo Friday! Today’s picture of the week is Guimaraes Castle in Braga, a region of Northern Portugal.
This bold imposing structure is open to the public, and the high walkway…

Today for Photo Friday I’m sharing a South Indian landscape photo from the state of Karnataka that is etched into the sights, sounds, smells and textures of my memory.
I was…

This is one of the first shots I took in Sicily with a tripod. I’d just arrived to a new WWOOF host near the Sicilian town of Acireale, and Mount …

A couple of rediscovered photos dug out of the archives today, from backpacking around Eastern Europe in 2004. With a terribly low quality digital camera (some unknown brand) I still…

Sitting at the edge of Loch Duich, Eilean Donan Castle in the Highlands of Scotland was destroyed in 1715. Just over 200 years later it was rebuilt to within 98%…

A gentle afternoon exploring Alfama, Lisbon, with my camera, watching without being noticed, savouring the Portuguese pace of life.

Copyright Peter Parkorr 2013…

I took this photo less than 100 feet away from the smoking crater of active volcano Mount Stromboli in Sicily, after watching it blast liquid rock and clouds of gasses…