Back in the 1990s I managed to photograph a bird flying along il ponte vecchio (it's just above the people's heads).
Near Potter's Bar, this stone is on a piece of grass. It reads "Near this spot at 3.30 in the afternoon of September 15th 1784, Vicenzo Lunardi, the Italian balloonist, made his first landing whilst on his pioneer flight in the English atmosphere. Having handed out a cat and dog, the partners of his flight from London, he re-ascended and continued north-eastward."
This is the "great globe" in Swanage, Dorset. It was made in Greenwich in 1887.
It features an eroded Italy
This dates from 1993, before the euro. I brought it home as a souvenir.
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