Left side: ferry terminal on Penang Island; right side: approaching the transport hub & ferry dock on the Butterworth (mainland) side. Decided that I simply had to take the ferry at least once, and I don’t feel wny great need to take the ferry again – I don’t think there’s any place one can sit outdoors, which I found greatly disappointing :-/. Below, the down-side that can happen when you take a e-hail car over the bridge, which is of course the other way to get to and from the island. This was a slight challenge to my schedule, but I felt worse for the driver to be honest – worst possible place and time to have a tire suddenly blow out…
Museum Fundatie, in Zwolle, as promised in the last post from this lovely capital of Overijssel province. Lonely Planet tells us this was once a neoclassical courthouse which now houses exhibitions of contemporary art and has a small permanent collection which “traces the trajectory of contemporary art through representative pieces.” I was there after closing time so haven’t yet seen what’s inside, but the contemporary additions on the roof are, as promised by Lonely Planet, “impossible to miss.” Yes, that’s a large gold bird, and we’re told that the larger roof addition is a “snail-shaped slug of a cocoon that sparkles silver in the sunlight.” To me it might as well be UFO that’s perching on the roof, but either way it sparkles and attracts the eye, indubitably. 🙂 This merging of older and newer architecture is a common and often visually stimulating architectural thing here, as shown in various past posts – and certainly a thing to watch for if you visit any city in the Netherlands, more or less.
More views from the top of Penang Hill during my short visit last month for work, including of the delightful restaurant garden where I had a lovely meal to reward my weary legs and body for the steep climb up and prepare them for the steep walk back down…although at that moment I honestly thought I’d be taking the funicular / train back down rather than walking. But anyone who knows me knows how much I’d rather walk free than stand in a line for just about anything at all…even before covid! (shoulder-shrug emoji)
More photos from lovely Zwolle, two which we introduced you in an earlier post. The Upright yellow contraption in the photo on the left was some form of audio-art installation whose details and sounds I’ve forgotten; the unusual roof in the photo on the right belongs the main museum in town, a photo of which in its entirety you will see in an upcoming post quite soon, I promise.
Amazingly, we’re still working our way steadily through the entrances and gates of Prague. I’ve begun noticing lovely doors and gates in other cities, so now I just need to start photographing them when I notice them, in order to share them with you 🙂
The very last photo I took as Nikos and I headed from our little boat trip on the river (during which many photos in a previous post were taken) to the hotel to grab our luggage and head to the airport. We took a new walking route and finally noticed this delightful train station literally right around the corner from the hotel we’d been staying at all weekend. Yet again: anywhere you turn in that city, interesting views abound. 🙂 And no, we’re still not done with the Prague photos, more than two months later. Sorry….
(so much world, so little time....) 