Sunday morning

I love going for a walk on Sunday mornings, nobody around!
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Stairway to...

... to a ...swim with the ducks?
More weekend reflections here.

Grand Rue

A short break in the sun, with baby.
More b&w here.

Hey, you forgot...

... the brush.

The Holy Sepulchre

Yep, it's the other one, the one in Strasbourg! Restaurant, with a laaaarge choice of wines. I don't remember having wine at the other place, the one in Jerusalem.
Anyway, it's closed until further notice. We'll know more tomorrow.

Early morning

Woke up early today, coffee needed..Took it on my balcony.

A Monday Mural

Seen in Berlin 18 months ago.
More Monday Murals here.

Sunday afternoon

Still very few people around, as the masks are compulsory in the city center.

A weekend reflection

The Ponts Couverts in Strasbourg, old fortifications.
More weekend reflections here

A Venice wedding

An Asian couple came from far away... Wishing them a very happy life!
More b&w here

Summertime

Close to 30 degrees C today! I wish I could show you a crowded beach, but... Many good reasons to avoid crowds, and the closest sea beach is many hundreds of km away, far over the 100 km we're allowed to travel.
So, here is a green gate.

Is it a...?

I suppose it is... a bench. Facing the European Parliament. Does not look comfy at all.

The zoo

I wonder how our small zoo in the Orangerie park is coping, relying mostly of volunteers and donations... The park is still closed until further government notice.

A Rhine harbor

Seen in Frankfurt, one the closest airport towns to fly from. Now, this the harbor of course! LOL
More Monday Murals here

Soon

Hopefully.

A weekend reflection

Quiet evening at the pool bar
More weekend reflections here.

Summer in the city

Last summer in Tirana, Albania. Simple pleasures are so often the best.
More b&w this weekend here

Asleep?

Or checking me out?

Morning

Calorie bomb

Hungry, anyone?

The day after

After 55 days locked down, with mostly warm sunny days, almost summer days...  Yesterday, 27 degrees C. Today, first day of "freedom": 6 degrees C, cold monsoon rain, strong wind. Karma? Does Mother Nature signify us to stay at home?

Day 55: last day of the lock down

I want to break free! But very carefully, observing government rules. Nobody wants a second confinement!

Timeless

Time forgot this place.

Weekend in black and white

Life, as it used to be.
More b&w here

Locked out

You have been on lockdown for weeks? Feeling bored, restless? You ate too much? How terrible!. This guy, like many others, doesn't have a home. Get a life!

Vagabond neurosis

AKA dromomania, the compulsive need of traveling. 4 months without traveling... Therefore a photo of Amsterdam, one of the places I call(ed) home.
More weekend reflections right... here

Deconfinement, 6 days to go

Many shops to reopen next Monday. Bars, cafés, restaurants, etc, will remain closed till.......

A Monday Mural

More Monday Murals to be viewed here

It was a foggy day

in foggy bottom

A weekend reflection on lockdown day 47

Dreaming of a nice handmade burger in the sun(no McD!). But all restaurants are closed in France until further notice. I will wait. Not at a beer drinkers myself.
More weekend reflections here

May Day CDP theme day: shopping

Once upon a time, thinking pink thoughts while riding my unicorn, I went to Wonderland for a little shopping.
More wonderful photos about shopping here.

Doces

Like most people, I'm not able to travel. So, here are some sweets, aka doces, from Portugal

Martian holidays

Last summer, on a sunny day
More (serious) b&w here
PS: it is a close up of a beach in Portugal

Confinement, week 7, day 43

More social distancing, bird view.
And, dude: GO HOME!

Social distancing

Alone in the city.

396,82 km to point zero

Point Zero, just outside Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. From here, all distances in France are calculated. Strasbourg is 396.82 km away, as the crow flies. A good deal longer by car or train.

Weekend reflections

A few years ago at the Bastille.
More weekend reflections here

Chaverim אחים

Enjoying a falafel in Paris.
Chaverim: hebrew for friends.
The weekend is black and white!

Lockdown, day 3823585

Some feel good music for you? Will it be Mozart, Strauss or the pink panther?

End of lockdown...

I only drink to celebrate, birthdays, Christmas, etc. But, when the lockdown  finally ends (partially on May 11th in France), I will have a nice flammekueche or 2, and a nice drink!

Lockdown, week 6

Starting getting ever so slightly bored.

At the movie theater

On top of an old independent cinema.
More Monday Mural here

Sunny Sunday

Wishing you all a good day.

A weekend reflection

More photos to reflect on right...HERE

Weekend in black and white

Scene from bubblier times.
More b&w here.

Sorry, we are closed

Cafés, restaurants, cinemas, concert halls, theaters, operas, etc, are closed at least till mid-July. I'm wondering how many will be able to reopen, with no income for 4 months, or longer.

Ghost town

Everybody seems to respect the confinement.

Nature morte

Saint Valentine's day massacre

This footbridge is historically located near the Porte des Juifs. This gate of the old enclosure of Strasbourg led to the cemetery which was close to the current place of the Republic where more than 900 Jews, that is to say half of the Jewish population of Strasbourg, were burned alive on February 14, 1349. Many of the survivors fled abroad. Some made it to Venice, to the Ghetto area.

This sad episode is known as "Pogrom de Strasbourg" or "Saint-Valentine massacre".

At that time, there was the threat of an epidemic of black plague (bubonic) which will make nearly 25 million deaths in Europe. Before it even declares itself in Strasbourg, the Jews will be accused of poisoning the wells. A bad excuse invoked in particular by bad payers not wanting to repay their debts, or worse, robbing their property.

The bridge has existed since 1858. But it was destroyed by the bombings of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871. It was immediately replaced by a metal arch bridge in 1871

Salty!

I cook a lot, I love it! But I use very little salt, for health reasons, I prefer spices, oriental spices. But this might change my habits... What is Norwegian viking salt? Or sel fou, crazy salt??? Or sel des voyageurs, traveller's salt?