Be merry on Place Gutenberg!

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg invented printing in Strasbourg. He didn't invent this merry go round on his homonymous square.

A bubbly weekend reflection

Old photo, at the cathedral. More weekend reflections here.
 

"I'm well done on this side. Turn me over!"

St Lawrence is supposed to have said it, when he was martyred on the grill. Immortalised in stone on our cathedral here in Strasbourg. The pink sandstone  stonework dates back 800 years... 

More b&w for this weekend here.
 

Last autumn

 

Abundance

Well, I'm not a vegetarian... But I do love veggies! The region is extremely fertile.
 

Chanterelles

Nice omelette coming...my way!
 

A Masked Mexican Monday Mural, aka MMMM

Pre-covid Mexican wrestler masks in Strasbourg? How curious.

More Monday Murals here. 

PLEASE, WEAR A MASK, MUCHACHOS Y MUCHACHAS!

 

Delivery!

Don't want cooking? Well,  all restaurants are closed since October, open only for take away and deliveries.
 Delivery companies take 30% of the food you order from struggling restaurants... Capitalism. I don't use them, I prefer take away or cooking myself. Ubereats and other vultures? NO WAY! My money goes to the few open restaurants. Directly.

A weekend reflection

A tourist office in Amsterdam. More weekend reflections here
 

Waterloo in black and white

OMG! Now why did I choose this photo??? Now I have this horrible earworm plaguing me! Do you know Abba? I HATE ABBA!!! Their ""muzak"" literally makes my skin crawl.

Anyway, click here to see more b&w photos this weekend. Or later. Oh, btw: this is Waterlooplein metro station in Amsterdam, me olde home.

Sincere apologies for the earworm!!!!!
 

Café 500

My next car!!!
 

Quoting Benjamin

 

Cloudy day

It was on cloudy day, near the museum of modern art, the glass building on the side.
 

A fishy Monday Mural reflection

Rue du Jeu Jeu des Enfants, Strasbourg

More Monday Murals right here.
 

Love or honey?

You decide.
 

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here
 

Campiello de l'Anconeta

I miss Venice!

More b&w here this weekend, as usual 

 

Winter fairyland

The Petite France area, a world heritage site, is specially beautiful during a rare snowfall.
 

Getting "warmer"!

Well, it's getting slightly "warmer", minus 12 degrees C, 10 degrees F with the wind chill, a good deal "warmer" than this morning.
 

Modern

Along the river, on the museum of modern art
 

Μια τοιχογραφία της Δευτέρας/A Monday Mural

Mia toichografía tis Deftéras... Nice musical mural in a Cretan kafenio.

More Monday Murals here
 

I want to ride my bicycle...

But... My bicycle is broken. Damn. What to do??? 

Easy peasy: I use one of the free bike repair stations!
 

A reflection

 

La Voile

More b&w for the weekend? Click here! And more weekend reflections right here.
 

Red Dwarf

I am a big science fiction fan, always have been. I used to love a british scifi comedy series in the 90es, Red Dwarf.

This said, this is the ensign of a bar. Closed since October, like all restaurants, cafés, cinemas, theatres, museums.................
 

Hortus conclusus, the enclosed garden

Mimmo Paladino is the author of this... strange beast at the museum of contemporary art in Strasbourg.

"Without ears, mane or tail, this primitive equine evokes the Trojan horse and the cunning of the Greeks to enter the city. But made of precious materials, hieratic and hoisted on a terrace, this horse is not a wooden horse or a decoy. Recurring in the artist's work, it evokes more the passage from the world of the dead to that of the living, like a psychopump god, who in mythology leads and guides the souls of the dead. Other works by the artist bear the same title and refer to this same symbolism which escapes that of the medieval representation of the Hortus conclusus, that is to say of the Virgin and Child in the garden of Paradise."
 

Street light

 

City Daily Photo February theme day.. Smile

More smiling people right... here