It's a sign!!!

A hot drink sorely needed with the quasi polar temperatures today!
 

Blue. A weekend reflection

The Douro river in Porto, Portugal. For more weekend reflections, just click...here.
 

Douro

Small tower over the Douro river near Porto, Portugal.

More b&w here.
 

A favorite!

Oh I love my momos!!! Well ok, the ones at the Dillihaat market in New Delhi are better, but I'm happy with this small restaurant. Strasbourg a very multicultural food scene, Asian, Ethiopian, french Canadian, Korean, African, middle eastern... And many more.

Freeze

Freezing rain this morning, danger.
 

Reflections

 

Off to work

Monday. No work for me... Retirement has it's perks! 😂 
 

Dinner

Straight out of the wood oven!
 

The arrival

Arriving in Venice by train
 

Art in Florence

I went to Firenze, Florence, a while ago. Lots of art there, mostly very old. I was happy to find this, a witness of striving art scene.

More b&w right... here.

And more weekend reflections... HERE

 

Feeling hungry?

Have a dog!
 

Meditating bird

 

Last month

We had a little snow a month ago, just enough to make Strasbourg look beautiful.
 

Post 2600: "Spring" is over

Winter is here. 5.30 AM: minus 19 degrees C wind chill
 

Winter is coming

Yep, winter is coming this week, after a spring-like December, first flowers and all. The weather people call it a Paris-Moscow, a polar front coming straight from the North Pole. Well , it will not be as cold as in Sweden, down to minus 43 degrees C up there, but I'm getting my warmest clothes out! 
 

A weekend reflection

 More weekend reflections right... here.

Storking around

At the stork hospital/nursery in the Orangerie park.

More b&w right... here.
 

The windows above...

... the souvenir shop, near the cathedral.
 

Break time

Or waiting for orders... Deliveroo is similar to Uber Eats.
 

January in the Petite France

 

Photo of the year

On a ferry, between Corfu, Greece, and Saranda, Albania.

More about the photo of the year CDP theme day right...here. Prepare to be amazed!!!
 

A weekend reflection

 

We're having almost spring weather, up to 13 degrees C. I want my winter back! lol

More weekend reflections here.

Closed

More b&w right... here

              Wishing you all a very happy new year 2024!!!

 

Nature morte

 

Fire!

Getting ready for a cook up.
 

Passing by

 

Wishing you all a very...

 And my sister yet another happy birthday!Bon anniversaire, vieille!  😂 

Saint Pierre le Jeune

The most beautiful in town!
 

Morning

Days are getting longer now.
 

Weekend in black and white

 

A Segway tour in town, apparently very popular. More b&w here. Just click!

The last autumn day

Guess winter is coming... Tomorrow.
 

La tienda de Jordi

Or Jordi's store, in the Istanbul Spice Bazaar. Jordi being a Catalan name (for George), you would that Jordi was Catalan, or at least Spanish. You would be wrong! According to Turkish television, he is actually Mehmet Kaynar, a Turk, speaking Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and English. He fell in love with the Spanish language years ago, and change his name so to attract customers in his spices and herbs shop. The shop attracts mostly thousands  of Spanish speaking tourists, but also Sting, Jackie Chan, Jodie Foster...  Bona sort, Jordi! 

I am not getting paid for this, just found it funny. 😂 
 

For cat lovers!

From my trip to Istanbul a few months ago. Istanbulites love cats! Many cat food shops around, with cat toys, lasers...
 

Out of ideas...

And very busy...So here are some flowers for you.
 

And some more Christmas decoration

 

The cube

The cube, just next to Berlin's central train station. An international food hall inside. More weekend reflections right...here 

Christmas market in black and white

We have in Strasbourg the oldest European Christmas market, every year since 1570. 3 million tourists expected this month... A decoration on one of countless stalls.

More b&w here.
 

More Christmas decoration. Oh well, t'is the season...

At the old city hall, built in 1731, former residence of the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg. These figures are not the counts mentioned above...:-)
 

A piggy Christmas

Decoration above a butcher shop... Why not.
 

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

A place I always visit when in Berlin. Click here to know more of the place. I'm writing this on Monday December 11th, the fifth anniversary of the Strasbourg Islamic terrorist attack.

 

Oh my, what did I do!!!

I ventured into town yesterday, Sunday, to take a few photos... Big mistake! I've never seen my town that crowded! Pedestrian traffic jams, long queues at the few public toilets... The Christmas markets weren't even open yet. Yesterday was also a shopping Sunday, all shops were open. Despite of all this, I managed to get a last (maybe) Christmas present, yeah!
 

Snow, ice, cold

I spent a few days in snowy and icy, and so cold Berlin this week. Managed not to fall or break a leg.
 

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here.
 

Holy? Unholy?

The Russian orthodox Holy Trinity cathedral in Paris... Hard to find anything holy about Russia nowadays. In my opinion anyway.

More b&w here.
 

Bearlin

 

On the road

I'll be away for a few days, to the world capital of Currywurst. I'll try to post from my phone, whenever possible.
 

A weekend reflection

Swan river. More weekend reflections right...here.
 

December theme day: local history

Well ok, this is in Venice, not Strasbourg. But the theme is local history, and I'm not living in Venice anymore... Then why? The Valentine's day 1349 massacre, or pogrom, that's why. The Black Death killed about 25 million people in Europe. The church authorities were sure the Jews poisoned wells, therefore causing the plague. So, February 14th, 1349, they decided to burn the entire Jewish population of Strasbourg, 2000 men, women, children. It didn't stop the plague.

A few families, fearing what would be happening, managed to escape before. They settled down at the only place allowing Jews, in the old foundry in Venice. Foundry = ghetto in the Venetian dialect. Many Venetian Jews are descendants of there Strasbourg Jews.

More theme day posts right... here.

Laundry day

In Venice. Not the touristic part of town. More b&w here right... here.
 

5 minutes...

 

... of pale sunshine.