They canceled Christmas

The mayor of Strasbourg, Madame Jeanne Barseghian, in view of the ever worsening pandemic in town, decided to reduce the yearly Christmas market to it's simplest expression: a big tree, lights, and not much else. No chalets, no market, no Vin Chaud... And many businesses going bankrupt.

It should have marked the 450th anniversary, uninterrupted since 1570 AD, even during wars.
 

The dude

A get well post about Jeff Bridges, who is been treated for lymphoma.

Dude, you can do it!
 

Wash your hands!!!

 

Use soap and a sponge!

A Monday Mural

Yet another Cretan mural, this time from the Dutch artist Minne De Lange.

More Monday Murals here
 

Spooky Sunday

Getting Halloweeny around here...
 

A weekend reflection

Oh look, that's me in the photo!

More weekend reflections to reflect about right...HERE.
 

Weekend in black and white

Checking.

More b&w here.
 

1200 years

One more photo from my trip to Molsheim, 20 km away, last summer. Molsheim is a youngish town by european standards, barely 1200 years old.
 

This is not a painting!

No, they are some flowers and plant, seen last summer in the immediate surroundings.
 

Molsheim

Inviting place in Molsheim, 20 km away.
 

A Monday Mural

Spotted near the archaeological museum in Herakleion, Crete, Greece. The name of the street, Agiou Titoy, or Saint Tite (or Titus), refers to the saint protector of the town. And the mural is about the minoan civilization.

More Monday Murals here.
 

At the museum

One of my favourite museum, all about science, in Paris. Something about data and internet.
 

A weekend reflection

Have a nice weekend, you all! But, before you go, click...here.
 

Weekend in black and white

What's new, pussycat?

More b&w here.

Kehl am Rhein

Kehl, Germany, just a bridge away from Strasbourg.Often a part of Strasbourg, the city (approx. 36.000 inhabitants), became totally German last in 1953. A shopping town for us strasbourgeois, as many things are cheaper there: food, petrol, tobacco... It's about 17 mn from Strasbourg city centre by tramway.

More about it's chaotic history here.
 

Light!

The jungle in the lamp shop.
 

Down by the river, 2

Cosy place on the Ill river, in the Petite France
 

Get off my foot!!!

That's hurts!

More Monday Murals here.
 

Down by the river

A little corner of paradise
 

A weekend reflection

You all have a nice Weekend! Raining here.

More weekend reflections here.
 

Weekend in jazz & blues

Wishing you all a jazzy weekend, with no blues!

More b&w here

October theme day: my response to COVID

You live only once... I was supposed to fly to Istanbul in march, on a gastronomical holiday, but my flights were cancelled. So, let's cook Turkish and other foreign food at home! Nevertheless, to fight cabin fever, I travelled when it became possible, Croatia in August, Crete in September, always checking the COVID stats before. Gorgeous food in both countries!

More COVID responses here.
 

Hopla!

A restaurant in the Petite France area. Hopla is the logo for Fischer beer. I'm not a beer drinker, can't stand it.

Rainy days

Don't throw cigarettes on the floor!!!
 

A Monday Mural

Anyone recognizes herself in this mural? LOL

Many more Monday Murals here.
 

Sunday

I love walking aimlessly through on Sunday mornings, just enjoying the silence!
 

A weekend reflection

On a flight last week, the sun reflecting on my plane, reflecting on the clouds, with a nice circular rainbow. It is called a Brocken spectre

More weekend reflections here.
 

Weekend in black and white

A few days ago...

More b&w here.

Orgy

 

Culinary promises? Or something else? The restaurant was closed when I passed by, so I didn't participate... :-) Anyway, good reviews on several websites. Normal kosher websites ;-)

Last of the summer vines

Autumn

Nikos Kazantzakis

 

Nikos Kazantzakis is, and remains one of my favourite authors. I discovered him in my youth, and he shaped it.

I can't't go to Crete without visiting his tomb.Every time.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

 

Μια τοιχογραφία τη Δευτέρα

 

Greek, for: a Monday Mural. Mia toichografía ti Deftéra.

Well, running out of murals, I went to look for them on the island of Crete, Greece. Bingo! There seems to have been a mural "championship" in Herakleion, the island's capital, beautiful ones. Enjoy!

More Monday Murals here.

Mine!!!

No one else shall chew the shoes!

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here

Weekend in black and white

Ready, steady... More b&w here

Back in town!

 Back in town, after a few days in COVID-free Crete (that's what they say anyway). Had an excellent time, apart of the things stolen from my bag by the ground handling crew at Heraklion airport.

Sunday

Strasbourg. No tourists in town.
Well, I'm off for a few days, without computer, to a much hotter place. C ya, around September 17th.

Wrong color!

We all live in a...WTF! This is so wrong!
More weekend reflections here

Weekend in black and white

Smile, it's the weekend!
Smile at more b&w, right...HERE!

Spiridon, the malacologist

Špiro (or Spiridon) Brusina was a croation malacologist (study of mollusks). His statue in on the seafront, in the old town of Zadar. A little more about him here.

Nice beard by the way!

And another

I've had a hard time choosing a favourite photo for yesterday's theme day. This was another choice.

Last theme day... Maybe. A favourite photo

Maybe the last City Daily Photo theme day. Or maybe not.
More about it here

A Monday Mural

Well, I posted pretty much all murals I have, I need some new ones. Maybe next week in Greece.
Mire murals here.

Sunday

Good day for a swim.

A weekend reflection

The sun reflecting on the Kvarner Bay, last week above Croatia.
More weekend reflections here.

Weekend in black and white

Looking at windows at night...
More b&w for your weekend right...here

Not my kind of places!

Specially in COVID times. No no no, I love desert beaches, without umbrellas, without people. Desert.

We all live in a...

When in Rome...

Well, this is not Rome, this is in Pula, Istria, Croatia. One of the many amphitheatres built by Rome, all around the Med. This one is called the Pula Arena, the 6th largest among the 200  or so surviving amphitheatre. More about it here.