Summer in the city

28 degrees C, 83 F as I write this on Saturday afternoon. Ice cream weather!

My trusty main camera died, RIP. So back to my 12 years old Canon DSLR, by far not a sharp as my poor Leica. New camera coming soon.
 

Not my car!

I went to a pop culture exhibition this weekend. Saw this car in a dark corner... No bats around.

A replica of the batmobile, btw.

Sundown

 

ο καστρος

O kastros = the castle. How is your own castle?

More b&w photos right... HERE
 

Ταβέρνα

A lovely taverna in Kerkyra, aka Corfu Town, with some gorgeous Greek food
 

Wanderlust

My dream house, on a small Portuguese island, Armona. The urge to travel is upon me! Preferably to some place I haven't been before. Well, we'll see where it will take me. Maybe Vietnam.
 

s'Kaafhüs

The former mooring places on the 1358 AD custom house. Boats on the Rhine had to declare their goods, tobacco, wine, salt. A custom house with an inn, since 1401 AD for centuries, a market later, a trendy restaurant nowadays.
 

A weekend reflection on Monday

More weekend reflections here.
 

Early morning

 

Hendrika Johanna

The Hendrika Johanna barge is a beautiful so-called pleasure boat. 10 meters in length, 2 meters wide. A Dutch barge, based in Alkmaar, Netherlands. I've seen her in Paris, a while ago
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Albert

More b&w here.

Musée Grévin, Paris wax museum
 

Oh boy

Don't loose your head!

 

CDP theme day: cyclists

Old photo, Barcelona seafront, many years ago. More cyclist photos right...here
 

A blast from the past

Meeting Janis, the four boys from Liverpool, Zagor, the Floyd, Asterix and Obelix in Belgrade, 18 months ago. I really need to go back to the Balkans, so much still to see there! And it's relatively cheap, which is good for my small pension.
 

Just a cloud

 

Slowmo

 

Marine

Young marines from the Scuola Navale Militare Francesco Morosini, in Venice. More weekend/street reflections right...here

 

Place du Marché Neuf

Or New Market Square, minutes away from the cathedral. The "new" market dates back to 1738 AD, until the late 19th century. Nowadays, it's a shady parking lot, with a nice fountain.

I keep wondering about the number of "Newmarkets" wordwide...
 

Old books and foie gras

2  specialties in Strasbourg, UNESCO book world capital 2024: ancient books and foie gras from ducks. A good book and some foie gras on a warm toast. And a nice cup of coffee, of course!
 

Chicken tonight?

More B&w right... HERE
 

Typical

Typical houses in the old town. Most are dating back to the 15th century, some much older, as early as the late 13th (1298 AD).
 

Igualdad

Igualdad = equality. No idea what it is about... Some Samoan looking guy holding sausages and a bagpipe, with some devils... Anyway, more Monday murals right... here.
 

Sant Pau del Camp

9th century monastery church in Barcelona
 

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections right...here.
 

Things you can see on a clear night...

Oh well, I'm over the moon... LOL

More b&w right... here
 

Opéra national du Rhin

Built in 1821,damaged several times (wars), more about it here. And for this season's program, en English, German or French, click here.
 

A reflection

 

Lavoir

The lavoir, or public wash house, where people washed their clothes before washing machines. This one is on the Aar, one of the rivers in Strasbourg. Abandoned in 1960, later renovated.
 

Fighting religious hatred

I posted this photo 3 years ago. The LGBTQ theme decorated tramway. 3 years ago. To this day, I am still getting hateful comments, mainly from so-called "Christians" in the US (so it seems) and from Muslims. The last one today. Good enough reasons for posting it again. Fuck those religious assholes                                                                            ☝

I'm a atheist hetero btw, but it does not matter!

 

A stroll in the park

 

Meiselocker

A statue in the old town , gifted by the city of Munich in 1929. It's the tit piper. Tit, the birds, meise in Alsatian, mésanges in French. A poem on it's base, in Alsatian:

“Hey guys, it’s a beautiful morning.

You don't want us to attract tits?

There, in the Rhine forest, or in the lark field,

There are great tits, blue tits,

crested tits in large numbers.

Anyone who has never baited tits is not a real boy! »

 

A glimpse...

... into the European Parliament. More b&w right...here. And more weekend reflections right...there.
 

Our Lady of Strasbourg

As seen from the Neustadt
 

Estação ferroviária de São Bento

Wonderful train station in Porto, a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national monument of Portugal. More info here.
 

The tree next door

 

Che-Ganesha

 Old photo, taken in Barcelona, 10-12 years ago. More Monday murals right...here.

Le Chat des Rives de l'Aar

The cat from the Aar river bank. A statue by Alain Séchas, 

"What interests me in the archetype of the cat [...] it is his amazement of stupor, his eyes, his absence of a smile which have been there since eternity, of the Egyptian cat to the one that caresses on his knees." A. Séchas

[...] This sculpture is placed in parallel with the river; On the road and rail, a real indicator of the flows, and the arrows on the asphalt also seem to indicate the meaning of its movement. If this cat is part of a before or after the scene on the neighboring ticket column, it is also available for other narrative connections linked to the vagaries of traffic. He carries the memory of the statuary, it is she who gives him his posture, but his gaze is turned towards the present and it is not accomplished as a work as in the passage of a train.

 

Barrage Vauban

An old fortification around town, defending Strasbourg from the bad French or German armies, depending of the years/centuries... Photo taken last autumn.

More weekend reflections right... here

Silhouette

Barcelona, many years ago... More b&w to enjoy... here
 

Behind the trees

Fun for kiddies!
 

Someone's window

 

Last week...

It was a warm and bright sunny day... last week, until the rain came.
 

City Daily Photo's April theme day: medicine

My first ever brush with intensive care, 14 years ago, as my heart wasn't ticking properly. Fixed, at the Sant Pau hospital in Barcelona.

More photos about this theme here.
 

Kougelhopf!

Oh man, I love that stuff! Sweet, with raisins, or salty, with walnuts and bacon bits (my favorite). Very common here in Alsace, but also in most central European countries.
 

A weekend reflection

More weekend/street reflections here.
 

Gay Pride

Gay Pride in Barcelona, a few year ago. More gorgeous b&w right... HERE.
 

A drink en terrasse

A terrasse in France is an area outside a restaurant where people eat or drink. Not really during this rainy week though. But last week was fine.
 

Nature?

A small artificial waterfall in the Orangerie park.
 

First Easter sighting

 

Spring

After 2 warm weeks, weather is finally back to normal. We even has hail on Saturday.