Spring is in the air

 

Reflections

 Light play in Strasbourg's Notre Dame cathedral

A Monday Mural

Streets of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

More Monday Murals right... HERE.
 

(Not) Welcome to Germany!

The border to Germany is closed since mid-January. The tramways from Strasbourg are still going there, but only for some commuters. If you're not commuting for work, many french people working there, and you get caught shopping, German police will fine you 250 euros. Or more.
 

Flying away...

FRA, Frankfurt Airport, on the way to HER last summer.

More weekend reflections here
 

A day at the beach

Souvenir from my Greek holiday last summer.

More b&w here.
 

Painting the mural

A huge mural on a student dorm near the Orangerie park.
 

Gallia resto u

A few barges near the Gallia university canteen (resto u: restaurant universitaire)/dorm. The barges are actually bars, closed since October.
 

Collège épiscopal Saint Etienne

 A catholic middle school, founded around a 12th century abbey. A school since 1861, formerly a convent, a synagogue, a theatre, a sport hall, a hangar, and a tobacco factory...

The painted house

Quite a lot to see there... Look closely. I raelly like the 5 women! Looks abandoned though.

More Monday murals here
 

Not Strasbourg!

Sigh.
 

A weekend reflection

The géode cinema in the Villette area of Paris.

More weekend reflections here.
 

Weekend in black and white

Taking my human for a walk.

More b&w here
 

Petite Venise

Or little Venice. Not in Italy, but in Colmar, nearby, along the river Lauch (means leek in English, funnily enough).
 

Some sausage with your tea, vicar?

At an angle in Colmat, 67 km south of Strasbourg. Butcher on one side, tea shop on the other. There is actually a German/polish tea sausage, widely available here, have a look here.
 

Intricated

 

Monthly theme day: mirrors

Salvador Dali's mirror! Well, that's me in the mirror, not him :-)

More mirrors right... here.
 

Be merry on Place Gutenberg!

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg invented printing in Strasbourg. He didn't invent this merry go round on his homonymous square.

A bubbly weekend reflection

Old photo, at the cathedral. More weekend reflections here.
 

"I'm well done on this side. Turn me over!"

St Lawrence is supposed to have said it, when he was martyred on the grill. Immortalised in stone on our cathedral here in Strasbourg. The pink sandstone  stonework dates back 800 years... 

More b&w for this weekend here.
 

Last autumn

 

Abundance

Well, I'm not a vegetarian... But I do love veggies! The region is extremely fertile.
 

Chanterelles

Nice omelette coming...my way!
 

A Masked Mexican Monday Mural, aka MMMM

Pre-covid Mexican wrestler masks in Strasbourg? How curious.

More Monday Murals here. 

PLEASE, WEAR A MASK, MUCHACHOS Y MUCHACHAS!

 

Delivery!

Don't want cooking? Well,  all restaurants are closed since October, open only for take away and deliveries.
 Delivery companies take 30% of the food you order from struggling restaurants... Capitalism. I don't use them, I prefer take away or cooking myself. Ubereats and other vultures? NO WAY! My money goes to the few open restaurants. Directly.

A weekend reflection

A tourist office in Amsterdam. More weekend reflections here
 

Waterloo in black and white

OMG! Now why did I choose this photo??? Now I have this horrible earworm plaguing me! Do you know Abba? I HATE ABBA!!! Their ""muzak"" literally makes my skin crawl.

Anyway, click here to see more b&w photos this weekend. Or later. Oh, btw: this is Waterlooplein metro station in Amsterdam, me olde home.

Sincere apologies for the earworm!!!!!
 

Café 500

My next car!!!
 

Quoting Benjamin

 

Cloudy day

It was on cloudy day, near the museum of modern art, the glass building on the side.
 

A fishy Monday Mural reflection

Rue du Jeu Jeu des Enfants, Strasbourg

More Monday Murals right here.
 

Love or honey?

You decide.
 

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here
 

Campiello de l'Anconeta

I miss Venice!

More b&w here this weekend, as usual 

 

Winter fairyland

The Petite France area, a world heritage site, is specially beautiful during a rare snowfall.
 

Getting "warmer"!

Well, it's getting slightly "warmer", minus 12 degrees C, 10 degrees F with the wind chill, a good deal "warmer" than this morning.
 

Modern

Along the river, on the museum of modern art
 

Μια τοιχογραφία της Δευτέρας/A Monday Mural

Mia toichografía tis Deftéras... Nice musical mural in a Cretan kafenio.

More Monday Murals here
 

I want to ride my bicycle...

But... My bicycle is broken. Damn. What to do??? 

Easy peasy: I use one of the free bike repair stations!
 

A reflection

 

La Voile

More b&w for the weekend? Click here! And more weekend reflections right here.
 

Red Dwarf

I am a big science fiction fan, always have been. I used to love a british scifi comedy series in the 90es, Red Dwarf.

This said, this is the ensign of a bar. Closed since October, like all restaurants, cafés, cinemas, theatres, museums.................
 

Hortus conclusus, the enclosed garden

Mimmo Paladino is the author of this... strange beast at the museum of contemporary art in Strasbourg.

"Without ears, mane or tail, this primitive equine evokes the Trojan horse and the cunning of the Greeks to enter the city. But made of precious materials, hieratic and hoisted on a terrace, this horse is not a wooden horse or a decoy. Recurring in the artist's work, it evokes more the passage from the world of the dead to that of the living, like a psychopump god, who in mythology leads and guides the souls of the dead. Other works by the artist bear the same title and refer to this same symbolism which escapes that of the medieval representation of the Hortus conclusus, that is to say of the Virgin and Child in the garden of Paradise."
 

Street light

 

City Daily Photo February theme day.. Smile

More smiling people right... here
 

Shadows and light

 

A weekend reflection

Early morning in the Petite France, Strasbourg. More weekend reflections here
 

Lunchtime!

The weekend is black and white!

 

Notre Dame de Strasbourg

1006 years old in 2021
 

Mirror, mirror, who is the...

You're both pretty!