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Likes Photography, Italy, Whisky, The Magnetic Fields, Autonomy, Glasgow, &c

Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.

Glasgow, Yr Hen Ogledd
A gift to Krakow from the famous pianist Paderewski. Destroyed by the Nazis in WWII but reconstructed and returned to its original site in 1976.
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania on the monument in Matejko Square Krakow erected in 1910 on the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald, where an alliance of Poles and Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic Knights.

#Photography #Krakow
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Epitaph of Benedictus Cosminensis (Benedykt Koźmińczyk) - humanist, professor at the Kraków Academy, poet, orator - the "Polish Erasmus". 1497-1559. Cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Photography #Architecture #Krakow
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Sea Snail! Turritella communis.
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Ah yes, the Were-Rabbit!
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Baroque Lobster.

(sorry)

#Krakow #Poland #baroque #Photography
November 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Of course, there is a reason the Dominicans kept getting martyred. They were nasty to women and board gamers....
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Monument to Jan VIII Zaborowski. Died 1577, just after being appointed Bishop of Chelm. Cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #monument #Photography #beard
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Monument to Stanisław Maleszewski, who died of the Plague, 1555. Cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #Monument #Photography
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Magi at the #Nativity.
Stained glass fragments in the cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #StainedGlass #Photography
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
St Andrew.
Stained glass fragments in the cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #StainedGlass #Photography
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Stained glass fragments in the cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #StainedGlass #Photography
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
They walk past this stuff EVERY DAY. Huge paintings of previous Dominicans that got martyred..
November 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A Dominican monk in the cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Ghost #Krakow #Poland #photography
November 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
1496 bronze tomb relief of Filippo 'Callimachus' Buonaccorsi from the Republic of Siena. Homoerotic Poet, politician, philosopher, diplomat, historian, rhetorician, teacher, one of the foremost humanist figures in Poland. Holy Trinity, Kraków.

(see alt text for why he had to flee Rome...)
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Detail of the High Altar, Dominican monastic church of Holy Trinity, Stolarska Street, Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #photography
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Remnants of brick gothic detailing high on the nave of the Dominican monastic church of Holy Trinity, Stolarska Street, Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #photography
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
1614 dedicatory epitaph of Sigismund Myszkowski, Margrave Gonzaga (he was adopted by the Duke of Mantua) and Mirow. Outer wall of the family mausoleum in the Dominican monastic church of Holy Trinity, Stolarska Street, Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #photography
November 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Charming as Kraków was, it's good to be back in the Pot Still - via a call at Good Spirits to pick up some Springbank 10.

#whisky
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Father Clyde’s salmon-bearing beard on the Clydesdale Bank HQ.

#Glasgow #FishOnFridays
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Oh dear...
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The much missed Mr Titley..

#Liberalism
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM