Friday, 23 October 2020

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.
 

Thursday, 22 October 2020

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.
 

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

The dude

A get well post about Jeff Bridges, who is been treated for lymphoma.

Dude, you can do it!
 

Monday, 19 October 2020

A Monday Mural

Yet another Cretan mural, this time from the Dutch artist Minne De Lange.

More Monday Murals here
 

Sunday, 18 October 2020

Saturday, 17 October 2020

A weekend reflection

Oh look, that's me in the photo!

More weekend reflections to reflect about right...HERE.
 

Thursday, 15 October 2020

1200 years

One more photo from my trip to Molsheim, 20 km away, last summer. Molsheim is a youngish town by european standards, barely 1200 years old.
 

Wednesday, 14 October 2020

This is not a painting!

No, they are some flowers and plant, seen last summer in the immediate surroundings.
 

Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Monday, 12 October 2020

A Monday Mural

Spotted near the archaeological museum in Herakleion, Crete, Greece. The name of the street, Agiou Titoy, or Saint Tite (or Titus), refers to the saint protector of the town. And the mural is about the minoan civilization.

More Monday Murals here.
 

Sunday, 11 October 2020

At the museum

One of my favourite museum, all about science, in Paris. Something about data and internet.
 

Saturday, 10 October 2020

Thursday, 8 October 2020

Kehl am Rhein

Kehl, Germany, just a bridge away from Strasbourg.Often a part of Strasbourg, the city (approx. 36.000 inhabitants), became totally German last in 1953. A shopping town for us strasbourgeois, as many things are cheaper there: food, petrol, tobacco... It's about 17 mn from Strasbourg city centre by tramway.

More about it's chaotic history here.
 

Wednesday, 7 October 2020

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Saturday, 3 October 2020

Friday, 2 October 2020

Thursday, 1 October 2020

October theme day: my response to COVID

You live only once... I was supposed to fly to Istanbul in march, on a gastronomical holiday, but my flights were cancelled. So, let's cook Turkish and other foreign food at home! Nevertheless, to fight cabin fever, I travelled when it became possible, Croatia in August, Crete in September, always checking the COVID stats before. Gorgeous food in both countries!

More COVID responses here.
 

Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Hopla!

A restaurant in the Petite France area. Hopla is the logo for Fischer beer. I'm not a beer drinker, can't stand it.

Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Monday, 28 September 2020

A Monday Mural

Anyone recognizes herself in this mural? LOL

Many more Monday Murals here.
 

Sunday, 27 September 2020

Sunday

I love walking aimlessly through on Sunday mornings, just enjoying the silence!
 

Saturday, 26 September 2020

A weekend reflection

On a flight last week, the sun reflecting on my plane, reflecting on the clouds, with a nice circular rainbow. It is called a Brocken spectre

More weekend reflections here.
 

Thursday, 24 September 2020

Orgy

 

Culinary promises? Or something else? The restaurant was closed when I passed by, so I didn't participate... :-) Anyway, good reviews on several websites. Normal kosher websites ;-)


Tuesday, 22 September 2020

Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis is, and remains one of my favourite authors. I discovered him in my youth, and he shaped it.

I can't't go to Crete without visiting his tomb.Every time.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

 

Monday, 21 September 2020

Μια τοιχογραφία τη Δευτέρα

 

Greek, for: a Monday Mural. Mia toichografía ti Deftéra.

Well, running out of murals, I went to look for them on the island of Crete, Greece. Bingo! There seems to have been a mural "championship" in Herakleion, the island's capital, beautiful ones. Enjoy!

More Monday Murals here.

Sunday, 20 September 2020

Thursday, 17 September 2020

Back in town!


 Back in town, after a few days in COVID-free Crete (that's what they say anyway). Had an excellent time, apart of the things stolen from my bag by the ground handling crew at Heraklion airport.

Sunday, 6 September 2020

Sunday

Strasbourg. No tourists in town.
Well, I'm off for a few days, without computer, to a much hotter place. C ya, around September 17th.

Saturday, 5 September 2020

Wrong color!

We all live in a...WTF! This is so wrong!
More weekend reflections here

Friday, 4 September 2020

Thursday, 3 September 2020

Spiridon, the malacologist

Špiro (or Spiridon) Brusina was a croation malacologist (study of mollusks). His statue in on the seafront, in the old town of Zadar. A little more about him here.
Nice beard by the way!

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

And another

I've had a hard time choosing a favourite photo for yesterday's theme day. This was another choice.

Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Last theme day... Maybe. A favourite photo

Maybe the last City Daily Photo theme day. Or maybe not.
More about it here

Monday, 31 August 2020

A Monday Mural

Well, I posted pretty much all murals I have, I need some new ones. Maybe next week in Greece.
Mire murals here.

Saturday, 29 August 2020

A weekend reflection

The sun reflecting on the Kvarner Bay, last week above Croatia.
More weekend reflections here.

Friday, 28 August 2020

Thursday, 27 August 2020

Not my kind of places!

Specially in COVID times. No no no, I love desert beaches, without umbrellas, without people. Desert.