French Liberty

Colmar, Alsace, first home of the statue of Liberty.

WE MIGHT WANT HER BACK!!!

Fall lockdown

Enjoying empty streets!
 

The sun above the city

Another type of mural, very inventive one. Art, out of trash. I love the sun!

More Monday Murals here.
 

November City Daily Photo theme day: kind or kindness

Please be kind. Seen in the cat village in Malta, last year.

More theme day photos about kindness here
 

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections right... here
 

Budhas for sale...

...and a few Nefertitisand elephants as well.

More b&w for your weekend here.
 

10 hours till lockdown, v. 2.0

 

Support your local caffeine dealer!

A cafenion is what they call a coffee place in greek. I don't have many Strasbourg photos for the moment, due to the sanitary situation here.
 

The cube

They do not want you to go there!
 

A cretan Monday Mural

Near the archeological museum in Herakleion, Crete, Greece.

More Monday Murals here, at Sami's.
 

Golden

One of my favourite times of the year.
 

Una riflessione del fine settimana

Timeless Padova, Italy

More weekend reflections here
 

Students

Students from the Scuola Navale Militare Francesco Morosini (military navy school) in Venice on their way to town by vaporetto. Looking smart!

More really good b&w photos for the weekend right... here.
 

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.