City Daily Photo's April theme day: medicine

My first ever brush with intensive care, 14 years ago, as my heart wasn't ticking properly. Fixed, at the Sant Pau hospital in Barcelona.

More photos about this theme here.
 

CDP March theme day: reflections in windows

More about this theme right...here
 

CDP February theme day: street corners

Madrid, a few years ago, on a business trip. Many more street corners from all around the world to be seen... here.

Also linking to the weekend in black and white.
 

Photo of the year

On a ferry, between Corfu, Greece, and Saranda, Albania.

More about the photo of the year CDP theme day right...here. Prepare to be amazed!!!
 

December theme day: local history

Well ok, this is in Venice, not Strasbourg. But the theme is local history, and I'm not living in Venice anymore... Then why? The Valentine's day 1349 massacre, or pogrom, that's why. The Black Death killed about 25 million people in Europe. The church authorities were sure the Jews poisoned wells, therefore causing the plague. So, February 14th, 1349, they decided to burn the entire Jewish population of Strasbourg, 2000 men, women, children. It didn't stop the plague.

A few families, fearing what would be happening, managed to escape before. They settled down at the only place allowing Jews, in the old foundry in Venice. Foundry = ghetto in the Venetian dialect. Many Venetian Jews are descendants of there Strasbourg Jews.

More theme day posts right... here.

November CDP theme day: my favorite part of town

A good for a drink, weather permitting. This part of town, the Petite France, has always been my favorite.

More about this theme here.
 

City Daily Photo theme day: transportation

Some of the hundreds  (thousands?) of ferries on the Bosphorus strait in and around Istanbul. More transportation theme photos right... here.

 

Cheers!

September. Wishing you all a good weekend.

For more b&w, just click... here.

The September City Daily Photo's theme day, bottle, is right...here
 

August CDP theme day: garden

My favorite type of gardens... No maintenance or TLC needed... Everything I plant dies, except cacti. This is the huge cactus garden on Montjuic hill in Barcelona.

More garden photos here
 

CDP July theme day: climate

Well ok, this is an Imoca 60, a very nice way to go around... the world, if you have the time (and the money) for it. Or a sponsor.

Why this photo??? There is an engine on board, but it is mainly wind powered. There are more and more wind powered cargo ships, some of them gigantic, like the Japanese MOL, the French Canopée, the Swedish Oceanbird, an American whose name I forgot, to quote just a few. There are solar powered ships as well. Wind- and solar power are the future, furthermore as there is no planet B.

More posts and photos about this theme here. And more weekend reflections right... here.
 

June CDP theme day: smile

Should I laugh or should smile??? I'll sleep over it. 

Many more smiles here.
 

CDP May theme day: museums

I lived in London (the UK one) for a few years The very first thing I visited there was the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, one of my favorite museums. Other favorites are the Louvre, the now closed MIBA, museum of ideas and inventions in Barcelona, the toilet museum in New Delhi... Anyway, more posts about the theme right... here. 

And happy Labor day!!!

April theme day: my favorite toy

OK, this needs explaining. I've found this... prehistoric looking toad somewhere in Croatia. If you pull out the stick and rub it on the back, it sounds vaguely like halfway between a frog and a toad. My anti-stress toy. This is not a joke, lol! Or is it?

More about this theme day here.

March CDP theme day: comfort food

Well, not very often...lol. More comforting comfort food photos here.

 

February CDP theme day: virtue

Great virtue is like water. Water nourishes all things gently and does not compete with anything, content to be in a low place not sought by people. Lao Tzu.
More posts about this theme to be found here.

January CDP theme day: photo of the year

Maybe not my best photo of 2022, but definitely one I love. On a ferry between Greece and Albania, again, watching people watching the sun go down.

Happy new year, everybody! Click here to see more photos of the year past.
 

Baby, you can drive my car(s)... CDP theme day

December 1st, CDP theme day, about luxury! A sheik showing off his cars in Paris. 

More theme day posts right HERE

 

A soft November CDP theme day

I hate earworms! For this theme day, I was thinking about posting a cat photo. But... I watched a few episodes of the Big Bang Theory yesterday, one of my fav series. One the episodes included the song "Soft kitty, warm kitty". Song which stayed in my brain like forever. No kitty today, it might start again! So, here we go, a soft wool provider, aka baaaaaa.

You're a softy as well? Then click here!
 

October theme day: rest, sleep, relaxation

Mi gato! My cat, Rio. Born and rescued in Barcelona, now living near Amsterdam, with his cat friends Willem and Sofia. Resting, sleeping and relaxing 20 hours a day! Hungry at 4 AM...

More relaxing theme day photos right here.

 

Olive

Carrying on with this month's theme day... Some more wood, from Greek olive trees.