Stork reintroduction center

We used to have many storks here, but in 1972, the number was down to only 5 couples. Thanks to this center and to several charities, there are now approximately 750 couples in Alsace, about 60 of them in the Orangerie park, next to the Council of Europe.

Blue

With some pink thrown in for free!

Yellow

1st day of the month = City Daily Photo theme day. Here we go, the theme today is...yellow. No, no french yellow jackets!
Click here to see a yellow world.

Stork nests

Having a rest after feeding the kids... Can you see the baby?

A weekend reflection

A nice stroll through the Orangerie park, the green lung of Strasbourg. Looks like spring has finally started!!!
More weekend reflections here.

Albert, in b&w

More black and white here

Early morning

Sipping my first coffee on my balcony, watching this...T'is a good day

Just checking

In most European countries, it is forbidden to use your cell phone whilst driving. So I guess this... driver is not doing anything illegal. Checking his phone whilst waiting for clients, in Mdine, Malta

A Tuesday mural

Actually part of the Monday Mural theme, but as I'm a little jet-lagged...
Anyway, click here to see more murals, 7/7.

Petite France

Tourist things

Very popular with Asian visitors. Me? No way!

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections right...here

Not quite ready yet...

Seen in a small fishing town, a few weeks ago. The owner has probably gone fishing.
More b&w here

A place on the riverside

France Bleu Alsace

Our regional  bilingual (French and Alsatian) radio station. Well, we have many more radio stations here, not even counting the German and Swiss ones (hello, neighbors!) . But this one is actually in one of 2 world heritage sites, the Neustadt, the other one is the Grande Ile, the old city center

Spring!

It really looks like spring today! 4 days after the ides of march (RIP Julius Caesar).

Georges's guitar

Not a music shop, contrarily to what I first thought, whilst  walking through the streets of Montmartre 2 or 3 weeks ago. Georges Brassens had a guitar like this, if I remember well.
More Monday Murals here.

Sunday sunshine

Nice way to spend your sunday morning.

A weekend reflection

The European Parliament. Always wondering what's really going on in there.
More weekend reflections here

Just a girl

Just a postcard.
More b&w here
2 more b&w photos earlier this week on this blog!

The place to be?

Well, maybe indoors, as the weather is absolutely miserable. A hot coffee for me, please! And one of your lovely tartines.

Alsace go bragh!

I've never been able to see any leprechaun during my years in Ireland (Eireann go bragh!), I might have looked in the wrong places... Pursuing my research behind this crane near my house here, in my Strasbourg suburb. If I suddenly stop blogging, this will indicate that I found the much famed pot of gold, and that I moved to the Seychelles, or so.

I'll keep you posted.:-)

What's for lunch , in black white

Spanakopita for me. What about you?

A Monday Mural

Definitely a city cat!
More murals here.

Need Venice, right now!

A weekend reflection

The Triton Fountain, at the entrance gate to the Valletta old town, Malta.
More reflections here.

Weekend in black and white

Last week in Marsaxlokk... Don't ask: no idea how to pronounce it, as I don't speak Maltese. And the Google suggestion for it is Marshmallows... lol
More b&w here.

Watching the sky

The grey sky went finally away

Grand Rue

Is it me you're looking for?

Gold

A panorama view of the interior of the St john's co-cathedral in Valletta. The main cathedral, San Pawl, is in Mdina, & few km away. San Pawl, Saint Paul, as the story goes, was shipwrecked in Malta (in St Paul's Bay). He founded the first christian in Malta, around 60 AD.
I've only seen more gold in some Bavarian rococo churches. I'm equally amazed and deeply dismayed by so much ostentation wealth...10 euros to see it...

A Monday Mural...Or is it?

Murals, murals.. Now, what about this pussycat?
More Monday Murals here

Riflessjoni fi tmiem il-ġimgħa

This is the lovely Maltese town of San Giljan, or St Julian in English, with some traditional luzzu fishing boats in Spinola Bay.
More weekend reflections here.
You guessed it: the title of this post is Maltese for... :-)

CARNIVAL!!!

It's the children's carnival in Valletta today!

Tmiem il-ġimgħa bl-iswed u l-abjad/Weekend en noir et blanc

That's weekend in black and white in maltese and in french... As this is the door handle at the french embassy in Valletta, Malta. Nothing to do with them, I just passed there, looking for fish and chips...
You now the drill: click HERE, more b&w if you do. Shame if you don't.

Monthly CDP theme day: green

Greens, with some added colors . The gentleman on the side looks quite green as well...
More entries to the CDP theme day here

Nice day out

Wish it was a window, and that it was mine... The Maltese island of Gozo, seen from a ferry

Valletta

Went to Valletta this morning, to get the lay of the land. Made a few new four legged furry friends on my way. What can I do, cats, and dogs, just love me!

Mural it-Tnejn

First, you park your car. Then, you...
My first ever Maltese Monday Mural, live from Sliema, Malta, on a grey day. Never been here before.I have a good grasp of most European language, but Maltese... Beats me.
More Monday Murals at Sami's. Just click HERE

Mirrors

Amazing, what you can do with mirrors and a few projection devices...Musée Grévin, the wax museum in Paris.
More weekend reflections here

I'll be away for 8 days, to some tiny islands. Not sure about internet capabilities down there...

Sur les quais de Paris

Along the Seine river in Paris. Where I did some guiding/sightseeing this week

Weekend in black and white

The entrance of the Sacré Coeur basilica in Paris, last Monday.
More b&w here

Le bon bock

Could be in Alsace, but this photo was taken in Paris last monday. Bock is what english-speakers call a stein, a big beer container. Typically alsatian indeed!

Meeting Mr O.

Sorry about not posting yesterday: I was in Paris, on a secret meeting. Plotting the after-tRUMP with Mister O. All about strategy, strategy, and more strategy. Can't tell you more, sorry. Me talking, Mr O listening.
What a strange idea, to meet at a wax museum! Did he think I couldn't see the difference???

A Monday Mural

Old mural, seen in Barcelona ...... years ago.
More colorful murals here 

Just standing there

Waiting for spring

A weekend reflection

Oldie, from an old blog. The entrance to the Desigual HQ in Barcelona.

More weekend reflections here.

Weekend in black and white

Gone fishing.
More b&w here.

Busy skies

A lot happening out there this morning... 6 airports in the area. I'll be joining all those travelers in a few days time, flying south to a warmer place, to some island life, to a lot of history, to some fantastic architexture. And lots of rabbits!

Mugshot

I am french. So, genetically, a coffee drinker. It's the truth, it is in my genes!
But... I've spent long years in tea drinking fields, England, Scotland, India, etc, and I've got infected... Yes, I drink tea as well!!! A nice oolong, or masala chai... Better than bad coffee!
And so, tea selling shops are spreading in France, it's a pandemic...
DEAR COFFEE DRINKERS:I'M NOT YOUR ENEMY!!!