Thursday, 31 October 2019

City daily photo theme day: brown

Originally pink, the cathedral's stones turned brown, or even grey, over many centuries of pollution. Still beautiful though.
More theme day photos here

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Place Kleber

Our main square, complete Starbucks, Apple, bretzel shop, bookshop, underwear shop... Wonder if people actually live here...

Monday, 28 October 2019

It's official!

The early big (a good deal taller than the one on Times Square, New York!!!) Christmas tree has arrived this morning. Looks shabby? Wait till they're finished with it!
It's official: the Christmas season has started in Strasbourg.

Saturday, 26 October 2019

A weekend reflection

Almost November... The Ponts Couverts in Strasbourg.
More weekend reflections here

Friday, 25 October 2019

Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Monday, 21 October 2019

Tolerance

One of the 101 murals on the Berlin wall.
More Monday Murals here

Sunday, 20 October 2019

Vava's band

Seen in Amsterdam. Vava was Mark Chagall's third wife, and they lived in Vence, south of France. They married in 1952. What this has to do with a small boat on one of Amsterdam's grachten, is a mystery to me

Saturday, 19 October 2019

Friday, 18 October 2019

Borneo

Just came back from a whirlwind trip to Borneo... I mean Amsterdam. No rain!!!!!!!
More b&w here this weekend

Monday, 14 October 2019

A Monday Mural

Whatever this means... Maybe something about cooking...
More murals here

Sunday, 13 October 2019

Aubette, aka post 1102

A former 18th century guarrison, nowadays a shopping mall/exhibition center

Friday, 11 October 2019

Weekend in black and white

Notre Dame de Strasbourg, seen from rainbow street, rue de l'arc en ciel. 142 meters tall, or 465 inches.
More black and white here

Tuesday, 8 October 2019

Pont Saint Martin

Famour restaurant in town, unfortunately totally overrun by tourists. Nice place 35 years ago.

Monday, 7 October 2019

A Monday Mural

By Aleksey Taranin, on the German wall in Berlin. I could not find further infos about the artist.
More Monday Murals here.

Sunday, 6 October 2019

Holy Trinity

From a short trip to Paris, a while ago. The new Russian orthodox cathedral.

Friday, 4 October 2019

Thursday, 3 October 2019

Lunchtime

Lunch, a few steps from the cathedral, last summer. Today, you'll need a warm jacket if you to eat outside

Tuesday, 1 October 2019

Monthly theme day: orange

From my time living in the kingdom of Orange... aka the kingdom of the Netherlands, home of the royal House of Orange-Nassau. Every year, on King's day, people dress in ... well, orange, to honor present and past kings. Nothing do do with some orange monster in Amerikkka. No no no, it has to do with the old southern french principality of Orange., a town now.
More orange photos here. Having some orange juice now.

Monday, 30 September 2019

Sunday, 29 September 2019

Saturday, 28 September 2019

Friday, 27 September 2019

Weekend in black and white

Light from within a church...
More b&w here
Sorry gals and boys, not much time to visit your blogs lately, as my 88 years old mum has been taken to hospital a few weeks ago. Too much to do and to worry about...

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Electric

No idea what this is about, but it makes for a good photo

Sunday, 22 September 2019

Lazy Sunday afternoon

20 degrees, cloudy but warm... What to do today??? Oh yes: coffee of course!

Friday, 20 September 2019

Weekend in black and white

One of the over hundred murals at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, on what's left of the wall there.
More b&w here

Thursday, 19 September 2019

Neustadt

The entrance to the Neustadt, German-built part of Strasbourg. One of 2 world heritage sites here

Saturday, 14 September 2019

Friday, 13 September 2019

Weekend in black and white

Few things are more alsatian than our "storich", storks, cigognes... Well, they can be find elsewhere, but let me be a little chauvinistic today... :-) Anyway, those birds are hosted in stork clinic, in the Orangerie park, where they raise their little ones safely.
More b&w here

Monday, 9 September 2019

Jim's hotel

As seen at a music shop, in Basel, Switzerland, 100 km away or so.

More Monday Murals here

Saturday, 7 September 2019

A weekend reflection

A few hours in Frankfurt, where (not so) old mixes with quite new... The "old" buildings were rebuilt after WW2.
More weekend reflections here

Friday, 6 September 2019

Weekend in black and white

The nicest door I've seen in a long time! From extremely skilled artists!
More black and white here

Thursday, 5 September 2019

Mainhattan

Frankfurt is less than 2 hours away. I quite often cross it by plane, train, etc, know the airport very well, but I've never actually visited it. Done now.
The skyline, mainly big international banks, dubbed Mainhattan, the Main being the river.

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

Frankfurt

I just came back from Frankfurt, and yes, I had some franks!
The old HQ of the European Central Bank. The root of all evils, so they say... Specially true in the light of the latest CumEx files revelations. CumEx? Just google it.

Monday, 2 September 2019

A Monday Mural

Place Gutenberg, Strasbourg. I don't know who did it, but it's been here for years.
More Monday Murals here

Sunday, 1 September 2019

Saturday, 31 August 2019

A weekend reflection

I hate selfies! This is all you'll get! LOL
More weekend reflections here

Friday, 30 August 2019

Weekend in bianco e nero

Well, amici, I go to Italia quite often, since the early 80es actually. Culture, food, art de vivre, mamma mia! Si, I speaka the italiano, si signore!
Here a common scene in one of the few metros in Roma.
More b&w here.

Thursday, 29 August 2019

Still summer...

Enjoying the last really hot summer days... We're losing 10-15 degrees C next week. Is it me, or did summer really fly??

Wednesday, 28 August 2019