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View from the top of Torre Castello San Vigilto, in Bergamo.

Houses near the terracotta tiled roofs near the top of a hill, in the near distance, with mountains in the background

A day of site-seeing around Milan. Going through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II on our way to Duomo di Milano, the cathedral.

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, an open air mall with four spokes eminating from a central point. Around three stories up is a glass ceiling with a dome at the central spot. This was taken from one of the longer spokes, facing the dome and the opposite long spoke that opens out to the plaza.

Another sunning building, the Duomo di Milano. A lot more “traditional” than the Sagrada Família but still very impressive.

Inside the Duomo di Milano, the cathedral. Looking through the stone pillers and valted ceiling towards the alter and stain glass window at the back of the cathedral.

Arrived in Milan. It could just be the trams, but this feels like the closest city to Melbourne that I’ve visited so far. Of course, Melbourne doesn’t have buildings like the Castello Sforzesco.

Front of Castello Sforzesco, a castle, with a large tower above the front gate, with a slightly cloudy sky

This safe uses a curious choice of font for the keypad. I’d guess they wanted to go with something more interesting than boring Helvetica? But they didn’t go all in with maintaining the allusion, breaking it for the B, which would normally be shown in lower-case on a real seven segment display.

A numerical keypad on a safe with digits 0-9 and the letters A and B on either side of the zero in a seven segment display font. The left side of the B is a solid line, used to distinguish it from the loops of the B which are represented as they would appear on a seven segmented display. To the left is the safe's breading, which is a T in a circle.

Genova’s got this fun little lift near where I’m staying. It travels along rails to the end of the corridor, then goes around the bend to a transfer station, where it transitions to a traditional lift that rises to the street level at the top of the hill. Such a unique little thing.

Empty lift car showing red fold-up seats and hand-loops on the ceiling. There are windows on all three sides of the inside of the car showing the corridor.The horizontal section of the lift, which is a corridor with rails heading into the hill and fluorescent lights on the right wall.

Walking part of the Cinque Terre trail today. It was hard work — lots of steep runs of stairs going up and down — but it was great to be able to get out into nature for a bit of a hike.

Shot of the coastline along the Gulf of Genova, on a slightly cloudy day, with large hills descending down to the Ligurian Sea. Photo shot through branches of nearby trees.

Brief stop at Saintes Maries de la Mer today to look for some wild flamingoes. It was just a chance encounter that we found this small flock of them.

Flamingo wading in a swamp with its beak in the water looking for food.

Gare Aix en Provence, and the first railway line in France I’ve seen that is not electrified.

Railway station Aix en Provence showing empty platforms

Visiting the Dalí Theatre and Museum, in Figueres this afternoon. I’ve seen Dalí work before but I knew nothing about him before this visit. Some really evocative pieces in this collection.

The maroon wall and tower of the Dalí Theatre and Museum building.