Lock down, day 2

It's all so quiet... Waiting for an update from Mr Macron tonight. Will it be confinement, like in China, Spain, Italy?

Lockdown

Well... I was supposed to fly to Istanbul for a few days this week... A much needed break. Problem: France is a Covid-19 hotspot. So, a few days ago, Turkey imposed a 14 days quarantine to all coming from France and a few other countries. And then, was night, France was put on lockdown, until further notice. Can't even visit my old mum in her retirement home.
PLEASE DON'T COME TO FRANCE!!!

A weekend reflection

Traditional Albanian attire.
More weekend reflections here

The doggie

Spotted in Mdina, Malta

Shapes and structures

More b&w for the weekend here

Café Atlantico

We have several barges in town, used for theater, cabaret, culture, and... coffee. Soon enough, it will be warm enough to enjoy a coffee in the sun. But not today.

10 more day...

...until spring.

Sloth and hoopoe

At a local shopping mall, by Florimond Mochel, a Strasbourg graphic designer. His website is here.
More Monday murals here.

Panorama

Nice sunny day last autumn

A weekend reflection

More reflections here

Weekend in black and white

Geometry and chaos at the museum of modern arts.
More b&w here

Beer lights

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

Weird

A rather weird exhibit at our local modern art museum

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

These are the things we are fighting for

Tirana's way to improve life in Albania.
More Monday murals here.

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.

Weekend reflection

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

Turtle in black and white

Have a long and slow weekend, ya all!
More b&w this long weekend here.

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.

February

There be dragons

In Italy again, where one dragon is called Covid 19

A Monday mural

A metro station in Rome.
More Monday murals here

Scaffold fun

A very good way to wait for a train!

A weekend reflection

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

Weekend in black and white

In Venezia (amore mio!) once again, quartiere di San Polo.
More b&w here, as usual.

Need coffee!!!

A nice place to refill on caffeine!

Tradition

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

Having a laugh

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

A prudent man

Kisses

A late Valentine post...

A weekend reflection

Bubbles, lots of bubbles, reflecting ...
More weekend reflections here

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

Bric à brac

Street life

Are you looking at me???

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

Planning

Planning my next trip

Winter sky

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.

Weekend in black and white

Upside down reflection. Or downside up?
More b&w here

Unknown

An unknown statue in St Pierre le Jeune church

Silbermann organ, again

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

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.

Pneumohumanoiden

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

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here

CDP theme day: streetscape

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

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.

A garden

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.

Hang on there, little dudes!

A Monday Mural

Some passage way in Strasbourg.
More Monday Murals at Sami's.