Snow, ice, cold

I spent a few days in snowy and icy, and so cold Berlin this week. Managed not to fall or break a leg.
 

A weekend reflection

More weekend reflections here.
 

Holy? Unholy?

The Russian orthodox Holy Trinity cathedral in Paris... Hard to find anything holy about Russia nowadays. In my opinion anyway.

More b&w here.
 

Bearlin

 

On the road

I'll be away for a few days, to the world capital of Currywurst. I'll try to post from my phone, whenever possible.
 

A weekend reflection

Swan river. More weekend reflections right...here.
 

December theme day: local history

Well ok, this is in Venice, not Strasbourg. But the theme is local history, and I'm not living in Venice anymore... Then why? The Valentine's day 1349 massacre, or pogrom, that's why. The Black Death killed about 25 million people in Europe. The church authorities were sure the Jews poisoned wells, therefore causing the plague. So, February 14th, 1349, they decided to burn the entire Jewish population of Strasbourg, 2000 men, women, children. It didn't stop the plague.

A few families, fearing what would be happening, managed to escape before. They settled down at the only place allowing Jews, in the old foundry in Venice. Foundry = ghetto in the Venetian dialect. Many Venetian Jews are descendants of there Strasbourg Jews.

More theme day posts right... here.

Laundry day

In Venice. Not the touristic part of town. More b&w here right... here.
 

5 minutes...

 

... of pale sunshine.

Maybe tomorrow...

Winter. Day temperatures are around zero C. This is an old photo, no sunshine today. But, if the weather report is correct, I might have a hot cup of coffee on a terrace somewhere. Fingers crossed.

Update: coffee inside, far too cold for a terrace, and no sunshine. Sigh.
 

The white house

Levantine building on one the Prince's Island in the Marmara Sea, near Istanbul. It's for sale, should you interested... I'm not, too big.
 

A Monday mural

"If I die, you die". More Monday murals right...here.
 

Waiting

 

Cadbury cocoa

Seen in Valetta, Malta, a few years ago. Malta is a photographer's dream!
 

Hibernating

The small river fleet is closed for the winter. Wish I could hibernate too...

More b&w right... here

 

Red

 

Fall

 

Lights in the city

Many nice street lights in town, some dating back at least a century.

I am currently a Facebook jail inmate, so unable to post on the City Daily Photo page for 3 days. The effing bot misunderstood something, again.

7 dwarves

The town is getting ready for Christmas. Not sure what the dwarves have to do with Christmas though...
 

A little color

Everything here is grey, brown or yellow. But, only 6 days left till the opening of the very colorful Christmas market, the biggest and oldest in France.