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Feeling antsy?
 

Alone in the big city

More b&w here.
 

Metro

Hello from Paris! Phone post, not sure how it's gonna come out ..
 

Collegiate Church Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune

Young Saint Peter, a gothic church with 14th century frescoes. La most beautiful church in town., 
 

Music

Music from the excellent Musicâme ensemble, last Thursday. I was too far away for a better picture.
 

Quai des Bateliers

To eat and to drink on the Boatmen's Quay. The red barge, Café Atlantico,  is a restaurant, the blue one, le Rafiot, a bar.
 

Orangerie park

 

Via Praetoria

The street called Via Preatoria by romans over 2000 years ago, is now named rue des hallebardes, halberd street. Much later, 16th century, many weapon factory shops were located there. Weapons to fight the invaders, mainly French... 
 

Canals

My next palazzo... LOL, probably damp...

More b&w here.
 

Autumn in Paris

Old photo, taken before the fire.
 

On a hot summer day...

... last Saturday.
 

Printemps

A huge department store in the city centre called Printemps, springtime. The shop closed a few years ago, didn't survive covid. 2 or 3 months ago, one of the big metal claddings fell on the street, no one was injured, fortunately. Now, finally, they're putting nets, to protect people waiting for the tramway underneath...
 

Play with me, mum.

 

Down by the river

A few minutes away...
 

Crossing the bridge

Yet another hot summer day...in April.
 

Vittorio Emmanuelle 2

The Galleria Vittorio Emmanuelle the second, former king of Italy, in Milan(o). I've been to Italy countless times, but only rarely to Milan(o).

More b&w here.
 

CDP theme day: very small

A sunflower on my balcony in Barcelona, ages ago. More 'very small' photos right...here.
 

Al fresco

Lunch on the water...
 

Summer???

Definitely feels like it, expecting up to 28 degrees C/82F the whole week. NICE!!!
 

Lunch break

It's getting warm, 25-27 degrees C this coming week. Summer in April?
 

Pink and blue

And a little yellow and brown, at the European Parliament 
 

A walk in the park

 

Storks a plenty

Many storks in our huge Orangerie Park, near the European Parliament. More b&w here.
 

The view

A popular place for photographers.
 

Pink

The Strasbourg cathedral was built out of pink sandstone from the mountain range nearby, the Vosges. Pollution blackened it, cleaning is been done for as long as I can remember. A Sisyphus kind of task...  
 

Second hand

Several stalls selling second hand books and some posters and knickknacks, 3 or 4 times a week on the main square.
 

Monday

Another sign of spring.
 

Daliesque

It's EGG day! So, here are some, on top of Salvador Dali's museum-house in Figueres, Catalunya, Spain.

If you celebrate it:

 Happy Easter!

The tube

A different shoe shop.
 

Surf is up!

More b&w right...here.
 

Harley

 

Bunnies

Guess Easter is around the corner. The 13th yearly Easter Market, a few months after, you guessed it, the Christmas Market....
 

L'Aubette

The Aubette, a 1765 historical building on Strasbourg's main square.
 

Wisteria on Monday

 

Watching

 

Se faire monter la tete

Riding on someone's head... French for getting carried away... Why not.
 

The wall

More b&w here.
 

Danni Elizza

 

Red barrel street

Street named after an inn, Zum roten Faesslein, 1636 AD. This is the current name, since 1945, although the name changed 18 times since 1275AD. As a reminder, Strasbourg was founded in the year 8 BC, 2033 years ago by roman soldiers, but people were living here long before. When was your town founded?

Among others names, we have a Preaching Fox street, rue du renard prechant... More about it later.
 

The old city hall

Formerly known as the hôtel of Hanau-Lichtenberg. In France, during the Renaissance, a hôtel was the residence of a prince. Built between 0731 and 1736, in the baroque style.
 

Spring!!!

Gorgeous weather, almost summerly temperatures.

2 rue des Hallebardes

Originally a medieval wooden house, destroyed during WW2, rebuilt in 1954. Now a bank and a bookstore.
 

Berlin Strasbourg Karlsruhe

Stickers.
 

Dolphin 🐬

This is supposed to be a dolphin... Not many dolphins around here, the closest sea is hundreds of km away... Nice restaurant sign anyway.

More b&w here.
 

Au coin des pucelles

Meaning: to the virgin's corner. A good restaurant in the centre. But, I have another reason to post this, I don't want to promote a business... Someone removed the letter I in the word coin, corner, which totally changed the meaning... Au con des pucelles = to the virgin's...cunt. Naughty naughty... 

It's situated at the corner of the virgin's street, the virgin Mary.
 

The old wine market

Known as the frog ditch during the 14th century. No wine sold there anymore. And no frogs around either.
 

CDP April theme day: stripes

Zaandam, Netherlands, outskirts of Amsterdam. More stripey posts right... here.
 

Apples

A billionaire's shop on the main square, next to some coffee company based in Seattle. As a coffee aficionado, I avoid the place.
 Among other news, Apple just got fined 150 million euros in France for abuse of dominant position... My phone is Android, my desktop PC and my laptop are both with Windows...

Kinderspielgass

A pedestrian street in the town centre. The Alsatian name means children's play street, rue du jeu des enfants in French. Yes, streets here often have 3 names: Alsatian, French and German. In medieval times, it was the wine market.  The street goes was to roman times, BC.
 

Sunny and warm

Warm enough to leave the windows open