Looking up from the Avenue of Stars

The Hong Kong Cultural Centre on an overcast evening after watching the famous lightshow from the Avenue of Stars. Advertising for the event advises of different language versions that play on different nights but, despite what this implies, there isn’t any commentary during the show.

Looking up through the open air of the first courtyard to the tower.

It was hot outside in Piazza della Signoria. Stiflingly hot and I was ready for any shred of shade after scouting out Neptune and his buddies. Neptune stood beside the Palazzo Vecchio, the main attraction of the square, and I stumbled my way inside to the first courtyard.

It seemed extremely dark given that I’d come from the hard midday sun in the Piazza, but my eyes soon adjusted to the moody amount of natural light bouncing in through the open air roof.