Yes, the gates to Vondelpark can be closed, as I learned to my … surprise, chagrin and / or shock … the day of and the day after one of the major spring storms that knocked down trees. Unless one climbed over fences, stone walls, or gates such as these, one could not enter the park for a day or two. Gasp.
This is Stephansdom (St Stephen’s Cathedral) in the heart of Vienna…photographed at shortly past midnight yesterday (Sunday the 23rd). This would have been my first City Lights photo, except the bridge colors were so much more obviously about the lights than this one :-). Just home from a long weekend in Vienna, first trip ever – so more to come from that city’s many sights, obviously. Equally obvious is that adding a new series has messed with the nice harmony of my numbers, but such is life, eh? 🙂
A new series for a new (to me) city. The info is visible to readers in the full view, but if like my brother you haven’t yet sorted out how to do that…here’s a hint: this is a canal off the Danube. 🙂
Amstelstation in A’dam. Point of departure for the ride to my 24 hours in Maastricht. I’ve not yet done research on this mural, but I hope to at some point.
Trying to enjoy Vondelpark and all my other urban-garden walks as much as possible while there are still leaves on the trees, especially since those leaves are changing color daily 🙂
So this was obviously some kind of competition, festival or both which I biked past on my way home from a glorious team-tennis Saturday recently. Tap or click on the image below & then enlarge it, and you’ll see a boat being lifted out of the water by a crane. I guess many of these boats were carried in by road rather than coming under their own power along canals from farther away 🙂
Dakar is the westernmost point on continental mainland Africa. (Cabo Verde, more or less due west out into the Atlantic Ocean, is I believe the westernmost African nation overall?) I’ll mostly be showing you Dakar images in the “Coasting” series because, as it happens, I really only had early mornings and evenings free to explore during my short stay there, our hotel was by the beach, and what better wayto begin or end a day than with a walk on the beach? That said, I was able to photograph this very impressive African Resistance Monument from a distance, as seen from the offices where I was in meetings most of each day. I’m reasonably certain that I’ll get back to Dakar again, hopefully with slightly better timing to give myself a weekend day to get out & experience this more up close.
Same walk as the last entry: you get a sense why this is one of my favorite walk routes when the sun is shining, I trust? On the last warm swimmy day of August or early September, I followed a tennis outing (my club courts are a short bike ride behind and right, from the perspective of the photo above) with a swim on the far shore of this lake…but though we did see a few natives swimming on this outing, my bones would find the wind and air temperatures much too cold to brave those waters any more. We’re looking north across Nieuwe Meer, from the edge of Amsterdamse Bos, for anyone who wants to map-check any of it.
Back to the Bosbaan in Amsterdamse Bos on a lovely early-autumn evening. Note the moon just below the airplanes’ approach path to Schiphol, in the photos below. A well-placed bench allows one not only to contemplate the moon, the sky, the trees, the planes and the Bosbaan (the forest water track or water course, I guess) itself, but also to rest the weary legs.
You’ve seen almost this exact same view under very different light conditions in an earlier post. Neal will recognize the Scheepvaartmuseum (aka National Maritime Museum), and one of the tall ships which are (I believe?) a living part of its collection.
(so much world, so little time....) 