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Bridges.27

A detail on Pont Notre Dame (Notre Dame Bridge) above, and lovely details from various other bridges along the Seine below.

Windows.17

The Source.7

Frost on the grass, ice on the pond, and water in the lake: a cold February morning walk around Sloterplas.

Skylights.7

Country Canals.97

With April comes a new tennis team competition season, and with the away games occasionally the chance to see village and country life (and canals) in places I’d be unlikely to visit otherwise, such as this lovely little North Holland town last Saturday…
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City Lights.87

City Lights.86

From the Air.76

From my mid-March Beijing – Amsterdam flight which provided lovely views of most of China and Central Asia 🙂

Mountains.76

We come, at last, to the final photos from my glorious four days in Zermatt last year. The last photo at the bottom here shows you the view from my upper-deck front seat window on the bus down valley from Täsch back to Visp (who up-valley journey we documented closer to the time), whence those various trains via Domodossola to the lovely lakesides villages & cities of Ticino. And just FYI, I’ve made a preliminary decision that I’ll aim for 400 posting days in a row on this swing, meaning you (and I) will be taking a break from the daily one-or-more posts near the end of this month.

City Views.256

Small Wonders.266

Lake Living.66

Ah, Royalty.56

Last views from Paris’s (I’m pronouncing Paris as the French do, Maria – with a silent s) lovely Domaine Nationale du Palais Royale…til my next visit, at least :-). It feels odd that most of my royalty photos are coming still from France, whose last period of being formally constituted as an empire / kingdom ended in 1870. Particularly when you consider I spent nearly a full week in the formally-constituted Kingdom of Norway more recently than my last visit to France during this, its Fifth Republic…and that I spend most of my days and nights here in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. But somehow royalty is much less visible, more discrete, here – unless one goes looking for it. Which I must remember to do!