Sunday 29 May 2016
Saturday 28 May 2016
'Sans titre'
Another stunning exhibit of the MAMC, musee d'art moderne et contemporain. It is called 'sans title', untitled, by french contemporary artist Sylvie Fajfrowska
Friday 27 May 2016
Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber-Arp
Oh well, let's call her Sophie. A friend of Kandinsky, Miro, Picasso, Duchamp. She lived in Strasbourg, with her husband Jean (Hans) Arp. Dada, surrealism, concrete art...
Thursday 26 May 2016
Wednesday 25 May 2016
The Kandinsky room
Hi there. I could not post yesterday, Had to go to my old computer's burial. Now, I am trying to get familiarized with a french keyboard, bewilderingly weird.
Now then. Wassily Kandinsky has always been one of my top fav artists. And oh joy, he has his own room at the musée of modern art!!!
Now then. Wassily Kandinsky has always been one of my top fav artists. And oh joy, he has his own room at the musée of modern art!!!
Monday 23 May 2016
Legs as art
Many beautiful thing at the musee d'art moderne... This is one of the stranger exhibits, artist unknown (to me, anyway)
Sunday 22 May 2016
Night at the museum
So, last night was the yearly museum night, free entrance. All the museums had a program, music here at the modern art museum
Saturday 21 May 2016
Friday 20 May 2016
Thursday 19 May 2016
Spitaltor
Right in the most central center of town, is the huge complex of the Hopital Civil. It's big, and it's old, very old. Legend says it was founded by Duke Attic (St Odile's father) in 675 AD. But the first written proof dates from 1119. Old. Nowadays, most existing building were built around 1718. On my photo, one of the entrances to the complex, the Spitaltor, or hospital gate. The chapel you see on the side is 'new': 1428.
Several other hospitals in Strasbourg, all of them much newer!
Several other hospitals in Strasbourg, all of them much newer!
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
On a rare sunny day... I didn't like this building at first, but it is growing on me. Next step: stepping inside. Well, next week is museum night.
Tuesday 17 May 2016
Monday 16 May 2016
Livres en Liberte
Oh look, there is a new free lending library in the Orangerie park! The last one burned down last year. Books in many languages. It works like this: take any book you want, and feel free to bring them back, or not, no obligation. Feel also free to offer books! Love it!
I have enough to read for the moment, 1300 pages by Vikram Chandra, so I browsed, but didn't take anything. Later.
Sunday 15 May 2016
Saturday 14 May 2016
Friday 13 May 2016
Hide and seek
The sun was hiding, and I am a sunseeker! At ungodly hours, as usual, sipping my first coffee and watching the fireworks in the sky from my kitchen window.
Skywatch Friday, HERE!
Skywatch Friday, HERE!
Thursday 12 May 2016
My first car
Well, maybe. There is a photo showing myself driving the same model, same color in the early 60es. Part of s small circuit, on rails, with 3 more cars.
Wednesday 11 May 2016
Tuesday 10 May 2016
Another bloody Valentine
1347. The Plague. The Black Death. In Strasbourg.
Who's fault was it? Not the rats. Not the lack of hygiene. No, it was the Jews, they certainly poisoned the wells and rivers!
So, what to do? Let's go to the ghetto, just next to the cathedral (the good fathers needed to keep an eye on THEM...), and let's burn them!!! This is what the good christian people of Strasbourg did, on February 14th, 1348. Not forgetting to baptize the children, before throwing them in the fire.
It happened in the jewish cemetery, in what is now called rue Brulee, burned street. In Alsatian, Brandgass means street of the great fire.
2000 children, women, men... The few survivors escaped, and joined the ghetto in Venice, Italy.
Who's fault was it? Not the rats. Not the lack of hygiene. No, it was the Jews, they certainly poisoned the wells and rivers!
So, what to do? Let's go to the ghetto, just next to the cathedral (the good fathers needed to keep an eye on THEM...), and let's burn them!!! This is what the good christian people of Strasbourg did, on February 14th, 1348. Not forgetting to baptize the children, before throwing them in the fire.
It happened in the jewish cemetery, in what is now called rue Brulee, burned street. In Alsatian, Brandgass means street of the great fire.
2000 children, women, men... The few survivors escaped, and joined the ghetto in Venice, Italy.
Monday 9 May 2016
The Bosses
One of their meeting places, next to the European Parliament.
Oh yeah: Strasbourg is the official capital of Europe.
Oh yeah: Strasbourg is the official capital of Europe.
Sunday 8 May 2016
Saturday 7 May 2016
Friday 6 May 2016
Thursday 5 May 2016
Un air de printemps - An air of spring
After a cold and wet April, spring finally arrived here. Today, sunny, 20 degrees C, going up to 25 this weekend. NICE!!!
Wednesday 4 May 2016
What's for dinner, dear?
-Oh you're right, dear, I'm positively starving myself! Chinese?
-Oh, we had chinese yesterday... Boring.
-What about those japanese tourist, don't they look particularly scrumptious tonight?
-Okey dokey, one each then. Fries and coke with them?
-Don't be silly, deary! Rice and soy sauce, and a sake!
-Waiter!!???
-Oh, we had chinese yesterday... Boring.
-What about those japanese tourist, don't they look particularly scrumptious tonight?
-Okey dokey, one each then. Fries and coke with them?
-Don't be silly, deary! Rice and soy sauce, and a sake!
-Waiter!!???
Tuesday 3 May 2016
Monday 2 May 2016
Sunday 1 May 2016
There can only be ONE
Click here to see what my friends from the CDP family did.
Saturday 30 April 2016
Light
And back to the cathedral, with it's never-ending photo opps.
The big chandelier in the St Laurent chapel
The big chandelier in the St Laurent chapel
Friday 29 April 2016
Asperges d'Alsace
Despite of the s....y weather lately, the asparagus season has started. 30 years after Chernobyl, I wonder if they are ever so lightly radioactive... Ah right, I remember: according to the french government, the radioactive cloud stopped at the french-german border. Right in the middle of the Rhine river. STOP, POLICE!!!
Thursday 28 April 2016
Wednesday 27 April 2016
s' Gaenseliesel
A common sight in many german towns, s' Gaenseliesel, little Elisabeth taking the geese to the market. This one is in the Orangerie park since 1898, when Strasbourg was, once again, part of the German Reich.
Tuesday 26 April 2016
Not a shy beggar!!!
Still at the Orangerie park... A hungry bird, a cotton candy lady. The bird seems to be a regular customer, as the lady was feeding him no candy, but mince meat. Which is not usually used in cotton candy (oh well, what do I know... Different countries, different customs. Lol)
Monday 25 April 2016
Sunday 24 April 2016
Ecureuil
I am used to big grey squirrels, the not-shy-at-all kind. But what we have here is very different, smaller, brown, shy and much faster. A lucky and rare shot.
Saturday 23 April 2016
A weekend reflection
More greenery from yesterday's walk in the park, for the Weekend Reflection meme. Which is right here.
Friday 22 April 2016
Chlorophyll
Thursday 21 April 2016
Wednesday 20 April 2016
Pilgrims to the eyesight
This the way to San Jose.... Ah sorry no, to Sainte Odile, holy patroness of Alsace. Born blind around 660 AD, she recovered eyesight through a miracle. What do you do then, normally??? As a daughter of the local duke, she founded a monastery on top of a mountain (mount St Odile nowadays).
So, should you have some eye trouble, this is the way to the monastery, 15 km up, as she is also the patroness of blind, or partially blind people. If you can find the way, of course.
So, should you have some eye trouble, this is the way to the monastery, 15 km up, as she is also the patroness of blind, or partially blind people. If you can find the way, of course.
Location:
67530 Ottrott, France
Tuesday 19 April 2016
Monday 18 April 2016
Accent circonflexe
One of many bakeries in town. The reason I chose this particular, is the accent above the 'a', which the right way to write it.
Sunday 17 April 2016
Here were lions, strange ones
OK. Now that you have seen the red sky, look down. See the field (more of a lake today...) at my doorstep? It ain't a field, no no no. It is an archaeological dig. A few centuries, this was a roman graveyard. And look what they found here last summer, among other things:
Photo from a newspaper, L'Alsace.
Now it is changing rapidly into a lake, due to the weather. Nothing more to be seen, they covered the site.
Photo from a newspaper, L'Alsace.
Now it is changing rapidly into a lake, due to the weather. Nothing more to be seen, they covered the site.
Saturday 16 April 2016
Oink!
Well, being a city guy, I don't know if the farmer give wine to their pigs. I doubt it.
This said, we cook a LOT with wine, mostly of the white persuasion. Check out this beauty here! Vegetarians, DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK!!!
Sorry about the 'typical' french music (and the publicity) on the video.
This said, we cook a LOT with wine, mostly of the white persuasion. Check out this beauty here! Vegetarians, DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK!!!
Sorry about the 'typical' french music (and the publicity) on the video.
Friday 15 April 2016
Skywatch Friday
Well, some of you might already familiar with my early bird special, live from my kitchen... Skywatch Friday, now, HERE!
Thursday 14 April 2016
Wednesday 13 April 2016
Kleber and the Napoleon sphinx
Strasbourg is very proud of General Jean-Baptiste Kleber! They named the main square after him, with the obligatory statue of the great.
More info about him here
Curious detail. Underneath the square, there is a car park. And right in the middle is Kleber's cenotaph, complete with his corpse.
He accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt. Is this the sphinx on the memorial looks Big Boss Napo???
And, finally, he died in Cairo... killed by a student.
More info about him here
Curious detail. Underneath the square, there is a car park. And right in the middle is Kleber's cenotaph, complete with his corpse.
He accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt. Is this the sphinx on the memorial looks Big Boss Napo???
And, finally, he died in Cairo... killed by a student.
Tuesday 12 April 2016
The zebra door
I really wonder what's behind this door... Someone colorful, I'm sure, having a laugh! Or it may be a dentist...
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