This one was in France and I love the saying !  

8-20-20.      11 months ago in September 2019 a friend of mine, Peter, took two pigeons for me to Iran.  He mailed them there -- one in Tehran and one in Isfahan.  They didn't return even after he got back and I gave up on them as lost.  ALAS ! or as Peter said, [...]

This one I believe was in Brussels, Belgium:  

A friend of mine, Mary is a scuba diver and snorkeler and is headed to Asia on a diving trip in October. She has graciously ( again ) offered to take some pigeons and so I was thinking about it the other day in an odd way.  I thought hey, the earth is kind of [...]

Here is one from Bellagio, Italy in the northern Lake District: