This is the inside of the Torre del Moro in Orvieto, a beautiful old tower more or less in the center of the town. We were in the midway through our romance with towers see the next paragraph when we climbed this one. We briefly debated whether or not to do it, but the description said there was an elevator to get us past the first steps.
But the view from the top along with the rather close-up sound of the bells! I photographed this scene as we descended. I suppose a smarter photographer would have taken advantage of the excuse to pause during the ascent⦠but then it might have been hard to hold the camera steady as the heart pounded!
We climbed a fair number of these towers during our trip, especially during the first half. But eventually⦠the lure of yet another tower began to diminish and we tended to enjoy new cities from street level. G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. Cavendish Mews is a smart set of flats in Mayfair where flapper and modern woman, the Honourable Lettice Chetwynd has set up home after coming of age and gaining her allowance.
To supplement her already generous allowance, and to break away from dependence upon her family, Lettice has established herself as a society interior designer, so her flat is decorated with a mixture of elegant antique Georgian pieces and modern Art Deco furnishings, using it as a showroom for what she can offer to her well heeled clients.
Today however, we have travelled twenty-five miles west of London into Berkshire to the picturesque town of Ascot, where the Ascot Racecourse is. The town, built up along meandering roads, is made up mostly of large red brick mansions nestled discreetly amidst well established manicured gardens behind trimmed hedges and closed gates.
