Closing down for winter

Winter is coming!

It's official!

See the tall tower behind the tree? Just elected as the most beautiful french cathedral, beating the one in Reims. Well, at least on Facebook...Nevertheless, big party there on Saturday!

Mode passes...in Budapest

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A weekend reflection

Seen on the Arno river, in Florence, Italy.
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Weekend in black and white

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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

Place Kleber

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

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.

October

A weekend reflection

Almost November... The Ponts Couverts in Strasbourg.
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Paris/Berlin

The Brandenburg gate on Paris Square in Berlin.
More weekend b&w here

Red

THE place to be!!!

Australian-themed place in Amsterdam.

Tolerance

One of the 101 murals on the Berlin wall.
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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

A weekend reflection

I'm watching your bike!
More Weekend Reflections here.

Borneo

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

Good day to you!

One early morning.

A Monday Mural

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

Aubette, aka post 1102

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

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

Colors of fall

Pont Saint Martin

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

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.

Holy Trinity

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

Weekend reflection in black and white

Beautiful Ponts Couverts, covered bridges, here in Strasbourg.
More b&w here
And more weekend reflections here

Lunchtime

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

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.

Swiss Monday mural in Berlin?

Someone's idea of a Swiss knife...
More Monday murals to be found here

Time for...

Sweet or salty, this is the question...

A weekend reflection

Autumn under the Petite France bridges
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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...

Petite France

A little digital painting

I'm watching you!

A guard dog with a rather stony face...

Electric

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

Monday mural

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Lazy Sunday afternoon

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

Last of the summer days

More weekend reflections here

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

Neustadt

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

You are a sunflower

Yes, you are!
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Weekend reflections

Last summer, in Saranda, Albania.
More weekend reflections here.

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

Summer is ending

Jim's hotel

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

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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

Weekend in black and white

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

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.