Underneath the grande dame

On a rainy day in Paris, under the Eiffel tower.
 

Magic in the park

 

A bouquiniste mural

Spotted in Paris a while ago. The little guy says: nooooooooooooooo :-). One of many  bookseller's boxes, along the Seine river.

More Monday Murals at Sami's
 

Stay home, they say...

While COVID  rages, here in France, tens of thousands of homeless men and women, refugees, asylum seekers are still living in the street, by wet and freezing weather. Once again, I'm ashamed of being French, even though the situation is the same everywhere... Helping where I can.
 

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here
 

Weekend in black and white

Once upon a time in a warmer climate...

More b&w here.
 

Windows 2020

 

Golden

 

December CDP theme day: comfort food

Comfort food... For me, it is pizza (among others, alsatian Flammekueche, most greek or indian food, thai, chinese, ethiopian...), preferably from a wood oven, preferably in Italy!

More comfort food right here
 

Monday Murals

More cretan streetart. And more Monday Murals here.
 

La voile

Means the sail... Funny name for a péniche, a barge...
 

Petite France

More weekend reflections here.
 

The big bubble

The 19 century central train station in Strasbourg, covered by a 21st century glass bubble.

More b&w here!
 

Rush hour

Well, not really now. This was taken during our first lockdown, on what is normally rush hour
 

Night is falling

 

Waiting for Macron

A restaurant and a hotel. Both closed. Second lockdown in France. We are millions waiting for the French president to announce (hopefully good) news tonight at 8 pm.
 

Going green in the rubble

More Monday Murals here
 

A shithead did it

Hundreds, maybe thousands of discarded masks on our streets here.... I went to the baker this morning, 400 meters away, I saw 7 discarded masks. My feelings? Furious, sad.
 

A weekend reflection

Coming to your screens from Padova, Italy! A strange (for me) mixture of old and new.

More weekend reflections to your perusal right...here
 

Wet feet

More b&w here
 

What's for lunch?

A nice fish soup!
 

Mecanic punk

 

Hidden garden

 

Antifa

A picture close to my heart... Antifa means bad things in some countries (USA...), but what is Antifa? People fighting fascism, fighting hate. And this is GOOD!!! This is what we all need to do!

More Monday Murals here
 

The watery fire station

Most firemen in France are volonteers, but not in Marseille  and Paris, where they are army units, called sapeurs pompiers, sapper firemen. More about this here.
 

Weekend reflection

Through the wind shield...

More weekend reflections here.

Weekend in black and white

Typical parisian "bouquiniste". With red shoes on the original colour photo!

More b&w here

 

A free bench

 

Quais de Seine

Haven't been to Paris this year. Sigh. I normally go there at least twice a year, only 2 hours away by train.
 

I want to ride my...

Oh
 

Friends

What do you think they are watching? 

More Monday Murals here
 

The shadows of love

In Strasbourg as well, we have lots of these love padlocks
 

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here, as usual.
 

Weekend in black and white

Almost ready to go!

More b&w here.
 

Lush

Green. Then red, orange, and brown. Barely any leaves left this fall.
 

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!