Wednesday, 2 April 2025

The old wine market

Known as the frog ditch during the 14th century. No wine sold there anymore. And no frogs around either.
 

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

CDP April theme day: stripes

Zaandam, Netherlands, outskirts of Amsterdam. More stripey posts right... here.
 

Monday, 31 March 2025

Apples

A billionaire's shop on the main square, next to some coffee company based in Seattle. As a coffee aficionado, I avoid the place.
 Among other news, Apple just got fined 150 million euros in France for abuse of dominant position... My phone is Android, my desktop PC and my laptop are both with Windows...

Sunday, 30 March 2025

Kinderspielgass

A pedestrian street in the town centre. The Alsatian name means children's play street, rue du jeu des enfants in French. Yes, streets here often have 3 names: Alsatian, French and German. In medieval times, it was the wine market.  The street goes was to roman times, BC.
 

Saturday, 29 March 2025

Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Ironman

In the year 1740, a weapon maker decided to promote his shop by installing an example of his trade on his house. Now the place is called place de l'homme de fer, or ironman square. The house is now a pharmacy.
 

Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Ford

A nice 1932 or 1933 Ford, according to the Google image search, from the time when they made classy cars.
 

Sunday, 23 March 2025

Brothers street

Rue des frères, so called because the catholic seminar makes up for most of the street.
 

Saturday, 22 March 2025

Place Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg lived in Strasbourg from 1434 until at least 1444, probably in the parish of Saint-Arbogast. It was in Strasbourg in 1440 that he is said to have perfected and revealed the secret of printing through his research. Wikipedia.

The square is named after him, with a statue on the centre.
 

Thursday, 20 March 2025

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Monday, 17 March 2025

Rue du sanglier 🐗

Boar street. No boars around, the name came from the evolution of a 13th century old German family name. The street was part of the roman fort, under the reign of emperor Caius Julius Caesar  Augustus
A very good restaurant nearby, btw!
 

Sunday, 16 March 2025

Saturday, 15 March 2025

Friday, 14 March 2025

Gargoyles, part 2


Shrek around??? One of the gargoyles looks a lot like the donkey in the Shrek movies. And then you wonder where the Hollywood studios are getting their ideas from... Anyway; more b&w here.
 

Thursday, 13 March 2025

Gargouille

One of many gargoyles on the cathedral. More info about gargoyles, history, etymology, etc here.
 

Wednesday, 12 March 2025

On the way to...

... Igoumenitsa, Epirus, Greece, from the island of Corfu.
 

Thursday, 6 March 2025

Saturday, 1 March 2025

Fire!

Time flies, March already. Time for the City Daily Photo theme day: fire. As always, more theme photos to enjoy right... here.

 

Thursday, 27 February 2025

The noble house of Rohan

The Rohan were nobles from Brittany. 4 of them became prince-archbishops of Strasbourg. More info here

Couldn't find out who the dude is on the photo, I can only suppose he is one of them.
 

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

WTF???

Loving a murderer? Sick  stickers seen in town. Guess some seeing him as a hero, a modern day Robin Hood. Nah, he is just a killer, even if his victim was an absolute asshole.
 

Monday, 24 February 2025

A Monday mural

By Dan23. Part of a larger mural, unfortunately tagged over. 
More murals here.
 

Saturday, 22 February 2025

A weekend reflection

A public toilet at the international coach station.

More weekend reflections here.
 

Friday, 21 February 2025

Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Saturday, 15 February 2025

Friday, 14 February 2025

Marsaxlokk

I've been there, obviously, but don't ask me to pronounce the name of that nice seaside village in Malta...

More b&w here.


 

Thursday, 13 February 2025

On top

The roof of a shopping mall nearby, on the other side of the boarder , in Germany.