Friday, 6 March 2020

Thursday, 5 March 2020

Beer lights

Ac different kind of restaurant... Love it, even if I can't stand beer!

Wednesday, 4 March 2020

Weird

A rather weird exhibit at our local modern art museum

Tuesday, 3 March 2020

49 degrees of latitude north

67 km from Strasbourg as the crow flies, right in the center of the zoo in Karlsruhe, the monument signaling 49 degrees of latitude. Well, the monument is situated at exactly: N 48° 59.945 E 008° 23.999

Sunday, 1 March 2020

Monthly theme day: municipal building

City daily photo's theme day. As I didn't have the time to find something in Strasbourg, here is an old photo, from a past life. The ayuntament, aka Barcelona city hall, during the yearly Merce festivities.
More to see here.

Saturday, 29 February 2020

Weekend reflection

Sundown over the Taiwan pool in Tirana, Albania. Nice place for a coffee!
More weekend reflections here

Friday, 28 February 2020

Thursday, 27 February 2020

First flowers of 2020

Don't get fooled by my photo, the weather today is truly atrocious. It's called winter, 2 or 3 months late.

Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Monday, 24 February 2020

Sunday, 23 February 2020

Saturday, 22 February 2020

A weekend reflection

Almost 40 years since my first time in Padova...
More weekend reflections here

Friday, 21 February 2020

Thursday, 20 February 2020

Wednesday, 19 February 2020

Tradition

A traditional 18th century building, in the city center.

Tuesday, 18 February 2020

Having a laugh

German architecture in town. Makes me always think of carnival!

Saturday, 15 February 2020

Friday, 14 February 2020

Weekend in black and white

No. Despite of it may look like, this is not the cast of Cats. No: just some umbrellas.
More b&w here

Tuesday, 11 February 2020

Are you looking at me???

One of the birds at the small zoo in the Orangerie park. Looking quite disgruntled... Something I did???

Saturday, 8 February 2020

A weekend reflection

La Géode, the first ever french IMAX cinema. It opened around in Paris 1983 or 84 if I remember well (I was there at the inauguration).
More weekend reflections here.

Thursday, 6 February 2020

Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Silbermann organ, again

The same organ I posted yesterday, from further afar, with added visitors.

Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Johann Andreas Silbermann

The Silbermann organ, St Peter the Young church. Built in 1780, it is one of the best french organs, often used for recording JS Bach's organ works.

Monday, 3 February 2020

Pneumohumanoiden

East Side Gallery, Berlin wall, small part of a mural by Jens-Helge Dahmen in 1990.
More Monday Murals here

Saturday, 1 February 2020

CDP theme day: streetscape

A view of one of the other places where I feel at home...
More streetscapes here

Friday, 31 January 2020

Weekend in black and white. AKA post 1200

New Market Square, near the cathedral. Most houses here go back 5 or 600 years.
More b&w here.

Wednesday, 29 January 2020

The lock keeper's tower

Aka tour de l'éclusier, aka Heinrichsturm, aka tour Henri. One of five 13th century (AD 1230 to 1250) towers protecting Strasbourg. 4 towers remaining, the 5th burned down in 1869. A little more about them here.

Monday, 27 January 2020

Sunday, 26 January 2020

Cold feet?

As I'm getting older, cold feet becomes a common occurrence. Specially when seeing the birdies... Wonder if they too have cold feet?
Anyway, we have a big swan colony on the canals and rivers in Strasbourg.

Saturday, 25 January 2020

Friday, 24 January 2020

Holidays, anybody?

It's freezing cold here, day temperatures negative, despite of the sun. Traveling back in time and in space, Bassano del Grappa, northern Italy, June 2018, home of the grappa. Or to the early 80 es, in my case... Had a girlfriend there.
More b&w here

Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Tomate

We have hundreds, maybe thousands, of sausages in France. I haven't tried this one... Maybe a sausage for vegetarians, who knows

Sunday, 19 January 2020

TNS

TNS, aka Théatre National de Strasbourg. A very lively place! The program, in french only for now. And some history here, in 6 languages.