Monday 26 July 2021

Sunday 25 July 2021

A weekend reflection

Waiting for a delayed airplane... again.

More weekend reflections right... here
 

Friday 23 July 2021

Australian Pig Face

AKA pig face, beach banana, karkalla, sea fig... Carpobrotus rossii in latin, a native from western and southern  Australia. Question for my aussie friends wintering down under: pig face, really???
 

Tuesday 20 July 2021

Bougainvillea

A flower named after the french admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville, an interesting guy. Have a look!
 

Monday 19 July 2021

Kanoni

Right at the end of Corfu airport, the Vlacherna monastery on the Kanoni peninsula. The monks left in 1980, too many tourists probably, and far too noisy. I went there early. When I left, around 10 AM, I counted a dozen tour busses, a few hundreds unmasked Italians... Not good.
 

Saturday 17 July 2021

Friday 16 July 2021

Weekend in black and white

I was recently welcomed to my hotel room by this strange looking...watchacallit? Any name suggestion welcome! Octopus dismantled? Quartered?

More b&w here.
 

Tuesday 13 July 2021

The love channel

In Sidari, 40 km north of Corfu town, you can find true love... According to the legend, anyway. The beach is called Canal d'Amour, in French (I couldn't find out why). More about it here.
 

Monday 12 July 2021

A Greek/Russian Monday mural. Cheers!


 Well, I went to Greece last week, once again. The island of Corfu. And this is the only mural I could find, in an ocean of graffiti. Does not look very Greek, does it...

More Monday Murals here. Cheers, comrades! Nazdarovya!

Friday 9 July 2021

Weekend in black and white

I needed a break, I needed a trip to Greece. So, one week in Corfu, without a computer! I am fully vaccinated! 
As I tend to avoid tourist hotspots, I always go to the backstreets. One of the gems I found there. 

Want more b&w this weekend (or later)? Click here.
 

Thursday 8 July 2021

Are you ready...

... for a sponge bath? But don't get fooled by "delicatessen": do not, I repeat: do NOT eat them!!! ;-)
 

Tuesday 29 June 2021

Finally on the road again!

Away for a while, without a computer, after being stuck at home for a long long time... Not sure if I'll be able to post anything. Anyway, this airplane is a perfect tool for some sunny holidays on a Greek beach, lol!
More tools here, on the CDP theme day page.
 

Monday 28 June 2021

Out of this world

The feeling I have every time I go there, the Paris science museum in the Villette area.
 

Saturday 26 June 2021

A weekend reflection

The Castello degli Estensi, aka the castle of the Este family, in Ferrara, Emiglia-Romagna, Italy. Nice family home indeed! lol

More weekend reflections here.
 

Friday 25 June 2021

Weekend in black and white

Weekend at the Orangerie park. Even more b&w here.
I'm away next week, without a computer. We'll see if I can post, or not.
 

Wednesday 23 June 2021

Early morning in town

The curfew has been lifted 3 days ago, an early morning stroll through empty streets is...GO!
 

Monday 21 June 2021

A Monday mural, kind of

Not really a mural (but... Define: mural). Spotted in Italy a few years ago.

Real murals here
 

Saturday 19 June 2021

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here
 

I am in Facebook jail, for no good reason. Unable to post on "pages I don't manage till January 27th". Unable to post on CDP.

Friday 18 June 2021

Culture behind bars

During lockdown in France, all shops dealing in culture, books, music, theaters, cinemas, etc, were closed. Oh, there was a way... Making some online billionaires even richer. Thankfully, I had enough books to last a long time.

More b&w here
 

Wednesday 16 June 2021

Sunday 13 June 2021

Rivière de verre 2

As yesterday's post seemed to confuse some of you, here is a wider picture.

PS: avoid Starbucks, there is much better coffee in town... :-)
 

Saturday 12 June 2021

Rivière de verre

Or glass river, from the Industrie Magnifique exhibition, which ends tomorrow. By Philippe Berthomé and students of the Strasbourg school of theatre. More weekend reflections here.
 

Friday 11 June 2021

Wednesday 9 June 2021

Sans faire de vagues

Without making waves, by Gaëtan Gromer, another work at this year's The magnificent Industry exhibition. Life-sized sharks, with amputated fins, making a noise every time one shark is thrown back into the sea, mutilated. Shark fins are very popular in some countries... I wasn't the only one taking photos. Hello, colleague!
 

Monday 7 June 2021

Peut être fou

Seen in Paris a while ago. Peut être fou means either: may be crazy, or maybe crazy

More Monday Murals here.
 

Sunday 6 June 2021

The moon in the cathedral

7 meters large inflatable moon, made with thousands of NASA photos. Unique. By Luke Jerram; click.
 

Saturday 5 June 2021

Yes: no, perhaps

Another exhibit during this year's Industrie Magnifique exhibition, by the German Hager Group. Why this title??? I have no idea... More weekend reflections HERE.
 

Friday 4 June 2021

The magnificent industry

L'industrie magnifique is the name of a monumental  art exhibition all around town, from June 3rd till June 13th. Will show you more as soon as I take the photos. This is called Terre de Ciel, earth of heaven, by Patrick Bastardoz, made of bricks, roof tiles and metal. It's about the tower of Babel. See below...

More b&w for you right here.


 

Thursday 3 June 2021

LGBTQ tram

This year's Gay Pride, Saturday June 12th, 2.30 pm. All about freedom, diversity and equality. Strasbourg was declared a LGBTQ+ freedom zone, by the the new green mayor.
 

Tuesday 1 June 2021

When I can travel again... June theme day

One of the many countries where I'd love to go back to: Malta. Others are: Greece, Turkey, Israel, Tonga, Australia, Norway (in winter: no mosquitoes!), the Marquesa islands, and so on... So many! Anyway, more CDP theme day photos right here.