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Bridges.14

Posted by  |  February 19, 2025 | Categories: France, Paris | Leave a comment

Coasting.124

This is the town of Honningsvåg shortly after 2pm on the afternoon of January 25th, the northernmost port call on our trip at pretty much 70N degrees. I took this shot as our boat began to pull away for the journey to the last port call where Gary & I moved on for our night at the Snow Hotel, in Kirkenes. We’ve shared only one post from Kirkenes so far, but will share more in due course – there were reindeer, sled dogs, ice beds and ice sculptures in the snow hotel and so much more still to come just from that one little border town in farthest-north Norway! From the dock here at Honningsvåg, we boarded a bus for the only formal paid side-trip that we signed up for: by road up to the actual Nordkapp itself, the northernmost point in continental Europe at 71N degrees. We haven’t yet shown you Nordkapp either…but it’s coming, whenever I catch up to it in the blog.
Hugs, and enjoy these views of yet another interesting place in the world. Perhaps enjoy a bit of armchair tourism and dreaming about ways you can also enjoy the world around you, as an antidote to following whatever phone, computer or media alerts might be otherwise pulling you into non-productive feedback loops? The world’s still out (t)here, friends, so do let’s remember to enjoy it :-).

Posted by  |  February 18, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: , , | 1 Comment

Urban Garden.224

These are some of the lovely cottage gardens and semi-wild hillsides down which I walked and bushwhacked during my efforts to see all three of the proud castles of Bellinzona early last November, as we’ve described in a prior post or three :-).

Posted by  |  February 18, 2025 | Categories: Switzerland, Ticino | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Urban Garden.223

Various shots from the lovely big park (with lake) that’s across the street from me here. There’s a sign with map in one of the photos below, where they majorly overhauled and upgraded some kids’ fun play areas (some of which I’ve shown you before) last spring. The cute sign-posts above and below predate that overhaul, but no doubt link to kids’ outings over the years. (The tent is a rare instance of someone clearly living rough here.)

Posted by  |  February 17, 2025 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

Coasting.123

Coastal Norway around 9am, shortly after we’d crossed the arctic circle on the 23rd of January.

Posted by  |  February 17, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: | Leave a comment

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Signs of the City.113

Posted by  |  February 16, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: , | Leave a comment

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Bridges.13

Posted by  |  February 16, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Windows.13

Back to where we began this series, with one traditional window (below center) and more of Sigmar Polke’s lovely 2009 windows from Zurich’s Grossmünster.

Posted by  |  February 15, 2025 | Categories: Switzerland, Zurich | Tags: , | 1 Comment

Windows.12

Yes, the ship’s sauna had glorious windows out of which I gazed with great gusto while enjoying the warmth 🙂

Posted by  |  February 15, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Leave a comment

Windows.11

As seen through windows & doors of an art gallery in Svolvaer (“capital of the Lofoten Islands”), 21:45ish 3+ weeks ago…

Posted by  |  February 14, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Windows.10

Tromsø’s High School for music, dance & drama at 3:06pm precisely three weeks ago.

Posted by  |  February 14, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

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Windows.9

Posted by  |  February 13, 2025 | Categories: England, London | Leave a comment

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Windows.8

Posted by  |  February 13, 2025 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

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Windows.7

Posted by  |  February 12, 2025 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

Windows.6

Posted by  |  February 12, 2025 | Categories: France, Paris | Tags: , , | 1 Comment