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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 19h

The biggest cruise ship ever to exist. It is a monster!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just arrived in Rome and have immediately received mosquito bite 154.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just got splashed so badly on the back of a vaporetto that I look like I've pissed myself

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was out of bed at 4.30am this morning to film the city with no people it. 100% worth it.

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The Floating Nomads @thefloatingnomads.com · 27/09/2026

A castle with a curse on it. A language for coffee that belongs to nobody else in the country. A cave so enormous we hid from a storm underground rather than risk the streets. We kept asking ourselves if we were still in Italy. Trieste, in full: youtu.be/Y262a6uHkVM

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The Floating Nomads @thefloatingnomads.com · 25/09/2026

The 42nd most visited city in Italy has a square bigger than anything in Venice Trieste was the Austro-Hungarian Empire's only seaport for five hundred years, and it still looks like it. They even have a different language for coffee! Most surprising place we've been all year: youtu.be/Y262a6uHkVM

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Once you realise that this lion is a Chinese dragon with legs and wings stuck on you can't really unsee it.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm saving this in case I ever meet someone sympathetic to this grifter. 'Tommy Robinson' pays for his children to fly by private jet at the same time as begging for donations. Hilarious.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trying to enjoy my morning coffee on the balcony and him in doors is there with his camera.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm trying to suppress the opera this evening, but it's challenging

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Vicenza remains one of my favourite cities in Italy. ❤️

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm about half a bottle of wine away from belting out Nessun Dorma from this balcony.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're filming some stuff about Palladio and look at the view from the Airbnb 😍

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The most copied house on the planet 💙

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This has arrived in the last couple of days. It is ENORMOUS. I Googled who owned it and apparently it is "a secretive American billionaire" So that's nice.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.

Independent front page.

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000

Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position 18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's quite a lot going on here

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's biennale day for us. Spain is my favourite so far. So simple but I spent ages in there. Just post cards stuck to the walls but they suck you in.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Ha ha this-away, Ha ha Hathaway

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some shots of yesterday's sunset:

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In which you can watch me travel Europe by train on very little sleep [trying very hard not to swear]

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The catholic church using AI 🤮

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just had my first experience with AI generated music in the wild. It was on the in-store radio in Caddy's (like Superdrug but Italian), I can't really explain how I knew it was AI, something about the Americanised voice and a mismatch between the words and their meaning. Thoroughly depressing.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 17/09/2026

A poor, infirm, weak, and despis’d old man

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm very annoying to walk around Venice with because I'm constantly stopping to take photos of things I see. I'm not sorry.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Having a nice time. (I've had a campari or two).

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I haven't really enjoyed taking pictures for ages. Then I come back here and remember.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I love Venice but we've not even been here 24 hours and currently have 15 mosquito bites between us.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me being a Palladio geek 🏛️

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honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

vivaldi implies the existence of vivlidl

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We just arrived in Venice the way they used to when it was still a republic... by boat down the Brenta Canal from Padua. I never thought I'd be arriving in my favorite city through a series of locks and swing bridges... kind of like being at home! 💙

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some of the most breathtaking coastline we've ever seen... but which island was the winner?

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Visited Grotta Gigante today the largest show cave in the world. It’s so massive you could fit St. Peter's Basilica inside. Those tubes in the middle are pendulums used to track movements in Earth’s crust! Currently recovering with pasta...if you zoom in on the stairs you'll see why.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just been through Prosecco on the bus. I had no idea it was an actual village.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Castello di Miramare is as stunning as expected. I would quite like to live there (if not for the curse).

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Want to know how to make sure I don't visit your bar (that otherwise looks quite nice)? Have an AI-generated sign outside.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The original spritz in the city it was invented 😍

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Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very funny description of Diana Rigg not giving up smoking (as written by her daughter, in Vogue)

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The Floating Nomads @thefloatingnomads.com · 07/09/2026

We went to Guernsey not really knowing what to expect. What we found was French street signs, a town built on piracy, and Victor Hugo finishing Les Misérables there after France, Belgium and Jersey had all thrown him out. The coastline was the best thing though! Full video: youtu.be/z9YznskEU74

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I absolutely love that this city faces the sea and you get these glorious sunsets over it.

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Trieste is on an absolutely crazy scale. It's like Vienna by the sea.

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