This is your orientation photo. All shots in the gallery (in full view – otherwise series of top to bottom photos without design) below are from inside Arnhem’s Eusebius Church, especially within its spire which was destroyed in late 1944 and early 1945. Look closely about the midpoint of the thinner part of the spire above, and you will see a glass box extruding from the tower. There’s another on the opposite side, which you can’t see here – and all the photos below show those as seen from inside looking out.
Sam and I spent a few days last week exploring the Veluwe Zoom & surroundings, and I finally got him over to see this church and several other historically-significant and lovely parts of Arnhem, many of which I’ve shown you in past posts from 2022 visit. We both agree Arnhem’s a great city.
The darker photos are both from February 2nd this year – so slightly more than six months ago. The sunrise photo below is from just now – took it out my living room window to show not only the lovely morning-cloud sky lights, but how big all those new buildings have grown this year! My last Urban Canals showed you the Pontsteiger Hotel as seen along one of our canals; above, if you enlarge and look to the right of the big crane, you’ll see it as I used to see it out my windows here 😦
Photos of the lovely rolling and mountainous paths around the village of Trpejca, where Steve and I spent such a lovely 10 days already three months ago, yikes how times flies…
Above, the Pontsteiger building (which is a hotel, btw) as seen from one of our canals – now that I can no longer look out my window to see it, I figured I’d show it from other perspectives. Below, a few photos showing the ongoing work to stabilize and strengthen some of the older canals in the heart of the city.
The port of Licata lies along Sicily’s southern coast. Licata, I learned during a short visit in early July, was where allied (mostly American? at least there are some things from the long past that one can still have a shred of national pride in?) troops landed to begin the push into Italy during WWII. I was there for work reasons (link here to a recent public communication related to that part of our work), and it’s clear that I must also spend some time being a tourist in Sicily soon! Such beautiful landscapes, towns and historic buildings spanning milennia. 🙂
Along the shore of Lake Ohrid lies this Bay of Bones museum, reconstructing a prehistoric village built over the water whose remains were found at the lake floor and some of which now sit in an on-land museum behind us as we look at the walkway / bridge across the water that takes us out to the immersive museum. Below more photos of the houses and views from the reconstructed village.
Last post with photos from my early-March visit to Schloss Ahrensburg (the Castle at Ahrensburg). Including, for those interested, photos of an explanation of this castle’s links to the Atlantic slave trade, and a timeline with some historic events and visits.
At the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, one follows those white curvey white lines of paving stones to go through the high entryway next to the downward spiral slide, then walks through one of the rotating glass doors below to enter the indoor space, which when we visited early last month was hosting one of the most captivating exhibits I’ve ever experienced, called “Amazonia.” (Along with a personally-moving photo exhibit from a gay NYC artist active in the 1970s and 1980s, and an exhibit on the long history of commercial sex work which, for me, was actually the least captivating of the three.)
(so much world, so little time....) 