I wonder whether BAR is an acronym for: British Affable Rhapsode.

I found this hybrid FE that looks like a chrome body but has four black parts: the front with the NIKON logo, the bottom plate, the film advance lever, and the base of the film scale index. Is it a joke or a mistake?

Why don't you check them out on Ebay? They usually have a list of about 4,000 items, well priced and described. Very professional and reliable.

Your photographs are as beautiful as the island!

You probably don't believe me, but just try serving the same wine to friends in the glass you show and one made by Riedel. You and they will think one is better than the other.

I agree with Linda. The composition will improve with a bowl of grapes and two real wine glasses.

I have written here about...(Paul Diamond)
I wonder whether you have the same praise for the older AF Tokina 28-70mmmm AT-X Pro.

A piano is still the most amazing and complicated instrument: it has 88 keys for as many notes form the lowest that sound like a large church bell to the highest piercing sounds. A human being can play as many as ten at a time but when played fast it sounds like an entire orchestra. Beethoven would have loved the Yamaha or a Steinway, his was a poor instrument by comparison but he loved it so much he composed 32 sonatas for it. A few great pianists memorized and performed or recorded all of them, millions of notes. For starters, listen to these great works, it will keep you busy for a while.

I hope you can figure it out and show us a series of images as it progresses toward us. I wonder if it is a giant comet. There was one giant comet that appeared in the western horizon in the winter of 373-372 BCE and observed by Aristotle who was 12 years old at that time. Its appearance coincided with a major 'earthquake' that destroyed several towns. The historian Ephorus recorded that when the comet came close to the sun it was split in half. In my opinion, there is other evidence to show that a smaller piece of it fell in the Corinthian Gulf in Greece causing not only an 'earthquake' but widespread destruction of towns at a radius of 100 miles from the compact site. Eye-witnesses reported seen fire in the sky before the 'earthquake' and the huge tsunami that followed.
I believe you ought to link up with astronomers, you may have been the first to discover it.

In a retired stroller!

Did you visit the Archaeological Museum? I believe it's there

I made it a habit to always photograph the labels too!

Wonderful tour of Arezzo. Would you identify the statue of image #2?

Small correction: the name is Jerash and it's not Roman but one of the ten Greek cities East of the Jordan River. These cities are the famous Decapolis that included Philadelphia (modern Amman) and Damascus. The Romans respected their independence until the reign of Trajan (98-117 CE). Only Scythopolis was just West of the Jordan (modern Beit She'an, Israel).

You are the king of reflections!