Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Summer???

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

Monday, 28 April 2025

Lunch break

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

Sunday, 27 April 2025

Pink and blue

And a little yellow and brown, at the European Parliament 
 

Friday, 25 April 2025

Storks a plenty

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

Wednesday, 23 April 2025

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...  
 

Tuesday, 22 April 2025

Second hand

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

Sunday, 20 April 2025

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!

Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Bunnies

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

Tuesday, 15 April 2025

L'Aubette

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

Saturday, 12 April 2025

Se faire monter la tete

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

Wednesday, 9 April 2025

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.
 

Tuesday, 8 April 2025

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.
 

Monday, 7 April 2025

Sunday, 6 April 2025

2 rue des Hallebardes

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

Friday, 4 April 2025

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.
 

Thursday, 3 April 2025

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.
 

Wednesday, 2 April 2025

The old wine market

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

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

CDP April theme day: stripes

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