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Urban Canals.150


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Country Canals.50


“Urban” Entrances.100

Well, the town is as “urban” as Borkum gets. Herewith a few more of its entrances that caught my eye during our short stay there in late June 🙂


Small Wonders.210


City Views.210

Splurging our last photos of that lovely early-morning walk around Boston harbor in mid-August all on this post, given that we’ve since accumulated many photos well suited to this series on two trips to Geneva, plus the usual Amsterdam opportunities and more 🙂


Ah, Royalty.10

Ah, the company marketing can cause the concept of royalty to keep… 🙂

Mountains.20

Our last post was my first view of the alps, looking west-southwest as our plane started to line up along the French-Swiss border for its final dawn approach to land in Geneva. Thanks to an ungodly-early departure from my home on Thursday (after a late return from a delightful bassoon recital with Sam the prior evening), we arrived in viewing proximity to this magnificence at just the right time to enjoy that pre-sunrise glow without having to deal with the glare of el sol shining directly into the phone’s lens. These were taken the following day after a meeting downtown, when I got to see Mt. Blanc rising behind the city – last month when I was there the clouds were too to experience this, though friends told me it happened often. Wow.

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From The Air.20


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Islands.40


City Lights.40

Yesterday evening by the train station in Geneva…

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Urban Garden.180


Urban Garden.179

My farewell ode to Vondelpark (A’dam’s most famous and tourist-beloved park) and its open air theater, since I moved away from its immediate vicinity more than two months (!!) ago already, and am now taking my sunny-moment or end-of-work-from-home-day strolls in the lakeside Sloterpark further north and west.


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Coasting.69


Village Views.59


Urban Canals.149

A last farewell (for now) to HH and its pretty canals connecting the Elbe with the Alster.