Friday, 31 January 2025

Headshop

Amsterdam, a while ago, just another typical "coffeeshop". Not coffee available though...

More b&w here.
 

UPDATE: for some reason, I'm not able to comment on most of your post, don't know why... Trying to find out.

Thursday, 30 January 2025

The victims of the Shoah in the Lower Rhine area

To commemorate the 80 years since the liberation of the survivors of the Auschwitz death camp by the Red Army, the Strasbourg municipality created this memory garden, where the old synagogue stood, Inaugurated on January 27th 2025. Below, a model of the old synagogue:

Burnt to the ground by Hitler Youth in 1940.
 
 

Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Menorah

 

A menorah  at the Dohany Street synagogue in Budapest. 600.000 hungarian jews were murdered during WW2.

Monday, 27 January 2025

Solar queen

Weird things you can buy in Strasbourg. Or not. A little outdated, innit, your maj?
 

Saturday, 25 January 2025

Friday, 24 January 2025

Thursday, 23 January 2025

Little lace street

Petite rue des dentelles. No lacemakers here, it is the corruption of an old medieval German name, Spitze, meaning lace or angle.
 

Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Soap street

Nice and empty street, after the millions of tourists in December... Saponarii, soap makers, were working here from the 16th century.
 

Saturday, 18 January 2025

Le tram

A local, but binational, tramway, linking the Strasbourg greater area to Germany. Many trams, many different designs.
 

Thursday, 16 January 2025

Post 2974

The truly sumptuous Palermo cathedral, built in 1185 AD by Normans.


 

Tuesday, 14 January 2025