Something for (almost) everybody

 

Water, bubbles and a few tourists

An old photo... No bubbles today, very few tourists, but a lot of water, as we have the wettest summer in 60 years. Non-stop rain.
 

20, and a laugh

 

Paper mural

Looks like Mexican fighter masks. 

More Monday Murals here.
 

August theme day: sticky

 

Painting with a sticky... Wash the sticky sticky, or it might stay...sticky! More sticky photos here.

Lisa Belle

Nice boat... Probably a word play, L'Isabelle, the Isabelle.
 

A black and white weekend reflection

The building is the Médiathèque André Malraux, our huge central public library, named after a famous french writer and former culture minister.

More b&w here, and more weekend reflections here. And sorry for not browsing your blogs, as I'm having some extremely busy and tiring weeks.
 

Bassin d'Austerlitz

What was once and an international dock, boats from France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherland, England and the northern countries, complete with shipyard, is no a recreation area, with music school, a mall, a public library, a beach in summer, many restaurants, a huge cinema...
 

Quiet day...

... at the Bassin d'Austerlitz. Not a muskrat in sight.
 

I want to ride my...

 

Whazzzzuuuupp???

Hey how ya doin' on this grey Monday?

More Monday Murals at Sami's
 

A weekend reflection

Waiting for a delayed airplane... again.

More weekend reflections right... here
 

Needs a trim...

Whatever this thing is...

More b&w here
 

Australian Pig Face

AKA pig face, beach banana, karkalla, sea fig... Carpobrotus rossii in latin, a native from western and southern  Australia. Question for my aussie friends wintering down under: pig face, really???
 

Life is a beach

 

Vamos a la playa! Πηγαίνουμε στην παραλία!

Finally reaching a goal.
 

Bougainvillea

A flower named after the french admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville, an interesting guy. Have a look!
 

Kanoni

Right at the end of Corfu airport, the Vlacherna monastery on the Kanoni peninsula. The monks left in 1980, too many tourists probably, and far too noisy. I went there early. When I left, around 10 AM, I counted a dozen tour busses, a few hundreds unmasked Italians... Not good.
 

The shoe shop...

... at number 39
 

A weekend reflection

Colored mirrors next to the cathedral. More weekend reflections right... here.
 

Weekend in black and white

I was recently welcomed to my hotel room by this strange looking...watchacallit? Any name suggestion welcome! Octopus dismantled? Quartered?

More b&w here.
 

Feed me, human!

All my bowls are empty!!!
 

Just some driftwood

 

The love channel

In Sidari, 40 km north of Corfu town, you can find true love... According to the legend, anyway. The beach is called Canal d'Amour, in French (I couldn't find out why). More about it here.
 

A Greek/Russian Monday mural. Cheers!

 Well, I went to Greece last week, once again. The island of Corfu. And this is the only mural I could find, in an ocean of graffiti. Does not look very Greek, does it...

More Monday Murals here. Cheers, comrades! Nazdarovya!

Coffee

A weekend reflection

An evening in Corfu.

More weekend reflections here.
 

Weekend in black and white

I needed a break, I needed a trip to Greece. So, one week in Corfu, without a computer! I am fully vaccinated! 

As I tend to avoid tourist hotspots, I always go to the backstreets. One of the gems I found there. 

Want more b&w this weekend (or later)? Click here.
 

Are you ready...

... for a sponge bath? But don't get fooled by "delicatessen": do not, I repeat: do NOT eat them!!! ;-)
 

Finally on the road again!

Away for a while, without a computer, after being stuck at home for a long long time... Not sure if I'll be able to post anything. Anyway, this airplane is a perfect tool for some sunny holidays on a Greek beach, lol!

More tools here, on the CDP theme day page.
 

Out of this world

The feeling I have every time I go there, the Paris science museum in the Villette area.
 

Secret garden

A weekend reflection

The Castello degli Estensi, aka the castle of the Este family, in Ferrara, Emiglia-Romagna, Italy. Nice family home indeed! lol

More weekend reflections here.
 

Weekend in black and white

Weekend at the Orangerie park. Even more b&w here.

I'm away next week, without a computer. We'll see if I can post, or not.
 

Beauty

 

Early morning in town

The curfew has been lifted 3 days ago, an early morning stroll through empty streets is...GO!
 

Presqu'ile Malraux

A legal gathering.
 

A Monday mural, kind of

Not really a mural (but... Define: mural). Spotted in Italy a few years ago.

Real murals here
 

Fun for kids

 

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here
 

I am in Facebook jail, for no good reason. Unable to post on "pages I don't manage till January 27th". Unable to post on CDP.

Culture behind bars

During lockdown in France, all shops dealing in culture, books, music, theaters, cinemas, etc, were closed. Oh, there was a way... Making some online billionaires even richer. Thankfully, I had enough books to last a long time.

More b&w here
 

A side entrance

At the Strasbourg cathedral
 

Gargouille

As soon as it rains, I will spit on you! LOL
 

Our tall lady

 

Madame rêve

 

Madame is dreaming. More Monday Murals right... HERE

Rivière de verre 2

As yesterday's post seemed to confuse some of you, here is a wider picture.

PS: avoid Starbucks, there is much better coffee in town... :-)
 

Rivière de verre

Or glass river, from the Industrie Magnifique exhibition, which ends tomorrow. By Philippe Berthomé and students of the Strasbourg school of theatre. More weekend reflections here.
 

Weekend in black and white

Waiting for customers... Restaurants are finally open! More b&w here.
 

Having a break

Market days can be so tiring...
 

Sans faire de vagues

Without making waves, by Gaëtan Gromer, another work at this year's The magnificent Industry exhibition. Life-sized sharks, with amputated fins, making a noise every time one shark is thrown back into the sea, mutilated. Shark fins are very popular in some countries... I wasn't the only one taking photos. Hello, colleague!