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Reecy Pontiff
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Journalist, historian and musician; singular Yank haunting Bristol, UK; half human on my mother's side; she/her/etc

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Nice visit to BBC Bristol today!
Reecy on set at the BBC Points West news programme in a snappy outfit
January 15, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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The British 2p piece is the perfect flipping coin
A hand with a British coin ready to do a heads or tails style coin flip
January 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Everyone knows that the best album pre-production is done in one's jammies.
Reecy in her jimjams sitting at a piano with various notebooks and a large cup of coffee
January 12, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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This is "The Truth". I miss her.

(marble sculpture by #Bernini, housed in Rome's Borghese Gallery)
A larger than life (twice the size of an average human), magnificent, realistic marble sculpture of a nude woman beaming confidently upwards. Like she knows something you don't. She holds the sun in her hand.
January 10, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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Last full day in Italy. Explored the ruins of Emperor Hadrian's country estate, the old town in Tivoli, then caught a lovely chiaroscuro sunset .
Ruins of a large Roman bathhouse Narrow Renaissance (?) cobbled streets in Tivoli's Centro Storico Reecy in a new hat with the sunset A blazing golden sunset over Tivoli and the surrounding countryside
January 9, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Oh hey, I rode a scooter in Rome today 🥸
A row of motor scooters on a scenic alley in Rome. At the end of the row is an electric scooter (The kind you stand up on) and Reecy smiling
January 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Reecy with a bit of floor in the atrium of St Peter Basilica that reads "Pontifex Maximus"
January 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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And it's Reecy (the) Pontiff feeling right at home in the Vatican
Reecy looking impish in front of St Peter's Basilica
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Raphael's "School of Athens"!

#vatican #arthistory
Reecy beaming in front of a giant fresco at the Vatican
January 8, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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I'm over here in Italy, giving off big Melpomene vibes
Marble classic statue at the Vatican of the Greek muse of tragedy. She holds a tragedy mask and has her foot propped up on a stone like a badass
January 8, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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A Roman sunset

#italy #vatican
A sunset scene over Rome with a monumental obelisk in the foreground and St Peters Basilica in the background
January 7, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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I'm loving the studious gay angel lion at the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome

#arthistory #renaissanceart
An ornate frescoed ceiling of a church with lots of gold. Also a lion with rainbow colored wings and a halo, holding a large book
January 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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The chains of St Peter reliquary at the basilica named for them in Rome. Insert two euros and doors open to reveal them. PT Barnum would be proud.
A gold display case on an altar with ancient chains inside of it. In front of it is a machine where you can insert your two euro coin to see it.
January 7, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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The view from the Naples fortress of Castel Sant'Elmo (and yes, I was tickled to be there)

#italy #naples #napoli
Reecy, hair blowing majestically in the breeze, looking out from the top of a hill at Mt Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in Italy
January 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Street art in Naples, Italy

#napoli #streetart #graffiti #vesuvius
A spray paint street mural of a classic masked Italian caricature. It looks out onto the real life Mt Vesuvius and city of Naples, Italy
January 6, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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I picked up this 1951 Disney comics digest in Italian from a street book vendor in Naples for a very special Disney adult in my life.

"Topolino" is apparently the Italian name for Micky Mouse -- who is seen here smoking a pipe.

#disney
A vintage comic book cover with Mickey mouse smoking a pipe The other side of the vintage comic book cover with Donald duck in a bathing costume diving for pearls A 1951 Disney comic book page featuring Chip and Dale, and Donald Duck... speaking Italian
January 5, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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#seashanty #arthistory

What do you do with a...
A museum label that reads "Drunken Satyr" A bronze statue of the aforementioned Drunken Satyr in the Naples Archeological Museum
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Enjoying a pizza a portafoglio (meant to be folded in half and eaten standing up) before heading down into Herculaneum, Pompeii's smaller cousin. #italy #naples #napoli
Reecy eating a small pizza on a walkway above the ruins of Herculaneum
January 5, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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Even the optometrists in Italy are sexy
An optometist shopfront on a Naples street. The name of it is "Superottica"
January 5, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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Visiting Venice was surreal because I've seen it in so much media. (Seeing the French Quarter for the 1st time must be a similar experience--I can't say as I grew up with it!)

But I was utterly unprepared for the gritty magnificent charm of Naples' Centro Storico when I wandered in tonight! #napoli
Revelers on an atmospheric narrow old cobblestone street festooned with pennants overhead A large statue on a pedestal in front of an old church. It has a spotlight shown at it that casts the shadow of it on the wall that surrounds the church. At the base of it is many bins overflowing with and surrounded by garbage An alleyway with a Catholic memorial shrine to a loved one with large iron gates A huge Renaissance (??) church crammed in between much more modern buildings on a cobblestone Street
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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The magnificent Pompeii archeological site

#italy
Reecy at an overlook above the Pompeii archeological site A house alter in a Pompeii "domus" The Pompeii basilica (a term and layout the Christians continued using for cathedrals The colliseum at Pompeii
January 4, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Almost made it onstage at the big teatro in Pompeii today
Reecy being silly next to a stage in the ancient ruin of an outdoor amphitheatre
January 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Five hours in Venice!
#italy #travel
Reecy in picturesque alleyway with a little bridge at the end The exterior of a renaissance cathedral with marble sculptures and a brick church (?) across the way The ahhhhh may zing ceilings of a completely different cathedral that Reecy just happened to wander into Sunset on the bay (?)
January 4, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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Five hours in Venice. Best layover ever!
#italy #travel
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Reecy on a bridge in Venice, Italy The grand canal waterway in Venice A plate of pizza crusts from a pretty large pizza Reecy managed to eat by herself A seagull perched overlooking the ducal palace and San Marco cathedral across the water
January 4, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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Water transport from Venice airport! 😍
View of wake from a motorboat looking at the airport docks
January 3, 2026 at 11:44 AM