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Coasting.62

Borkum’s ferry port (shown above as our ferry pulled away en route back to Emden) is on the more protected south side of the island, while its main town is on west end. The shot below was taken a few minutes later, heading west along the south side before turning due south to reach the mouth of Ems, where Emden is located.

Posted by  |  August 11, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Niedersachsen | Tags: | Leave a comment

Village Views.52

Last views of this mountaintop resort village north of Erbil, which we first showed you in post that went up three months ago. There’ll still be a couple more posts from that visit, but we’ve nearly emptied that particular folder…

Posted by  |  August 11, 2023 | Categories: Iraq, Kurdistan Region | Leave a comment

Country Canals.42

Last possible use of the lovely palace gardens at Paleis Het Loo as my excuse for not biking out of town to take some photos of a waterway that more fully meets the criteria for a Country Canal…because there are no more waterway shots from that lovely afternoon, which by the way was the Sunday (!) on which I returned home, opened my email, and learned that the owners of my last apartment were making me move. (I’m told that new laws give more protection to renters, so many owners are turfing folks out now while they still can.) I still haven’t shown you the actual gardens or palace building, so as apology and taste of things to come, this shot below in which a visible wee waterway that also resembles a canal manages to qualify it for Paul’s own self-imposed definitions. 🙂

Posted by  |  August 10, 2023 | Categories: Gelderland, Netherlands | Tags: , | Leave a comment

From The Air.12

More views from atop the spire of the Michelskirche in HH: above, looking south to the Elbe (the roof with many peaks is the dramatic and still new Elbphilharmonie building); below, looking north again to the Binnen and Aussenalster.

Posted by  |  August 10, 2023 | Categories: Germany, Hamburg | Tags: | 1 Comment

Mountains.12

I realized with some chagrin that my last “Mountains” entry was an exact duplicate of the one immediately before it, so I’ve now gone back and replaced that duplicated photo with one that I nearly used for this entry. John, you’d commented about whether it was a road or a river down in the valley for that last post, but hadn’t smacked me upside the head for reposting the exact same photo. Thanks 🙂 I’ll blame the lapse on moving pressures.

Posted by  |  August 9, 2023 | Categories: Iraq, Kurdistan Region | 1 Comment

Islands.32

Yes, that’s a band heard through loudspeakers from inside the gazebo, nicely protected from the brisk wind.

Posted by  |  August 9, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Niedersachsen | Tags: | 1 Comment

City Lights.32

Same walk as the last entry (in fact directly across the street from the last shot), above a grocery store that I used to shop in frequently for the two years I lived in that old place…and it took me being on an evening walk in search of “city lights”-worthy images to finally notice this interesting artistic flourish 🙂

Posted by  |  August 8, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | Leave a comment

City Lights.31

I had run out of images I could legitimately post as “City Lights” entries, and its rotation was coming up again recently, so I set myself daily reminders each evening to “take city lights photos!” so that I’d be nudged out the door. I took this, as well as our last post in this series on a late-evening walk home from Gilberto Gil’s “Farwell to Amsterdam” concert at the Concertgebouw – so I guess those reminders opened my eyes to new possibilities for this series, eh? Fun fact: the Concertgebouw was an easy 20-minute walk from my old place. It was about a 25-minute bike ride the other night coming home (to this new place) from my last concert of the summer season, a glorious first exposure to Ayanna Witter Johnson, who explained before playing her cover of “Roxanne” that she got a big boost during covid lockdown after the Concertgebouw posted this video of her performing it in an empty recital hall – the very hall where we heard her performing last Friday along with her backup band as well as the Ragazze Quartet.

Posted by  |  August 8, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

Islands.31

On our very blustery sand-blown morning on Borkum, we wandered past this remarkable building its lovely roof decoration :-). And yes, that’s a third Borkum lighthouse to the left, above. (Read through my past posts tagged “Borkum” for explanation if needed.) More of it in future posts.

Posted by  |  August 7, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Niedersachsen | Tags: | 1 Comment

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Village Views.51

Posted by  |  August 7, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Niedersachsen | Tags: | 2 Comments

Country Canals.41

I really must get out to the real countryside and take more canal photos. I also need to show you more of Paleis Het Loo (thanks to Steve, without whom I wouldn’t have known we should stop by that palace when we were in the neighborhood in late June) than just more of these shots from their lovely palace gardens…

Posted by  |  August 6, 2023 | Categories: Gelderland, Netherlands | Tags: | Leave a comment

Urban Canals.141

Two early-morning views from my new place (just moved, middle of the week past) – above, looking north from my bedroom and below looking west from my living room. We’ve shown you Sloterplas, the lake below, in this previous post as well as a few others. You’ll be seeing more of this, and much less of my last neighborhood park going forward 🙂

Posted by  |  August 6, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments

Urban Garden.171

Last shot from a garden we’ve shown you in a previous post.

Posted by  |  August 5, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Coasting.61

Last photo taken on the boat back from Borkum to Emden above, and first photo taken on the boat from Emden to Borkum below – both lookin at the wind farm on the NL side of the river. So many things one can do with coastlines, eh?

Posted by  |  August 4, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Groningen (City & Province), Netherlands, Niedersachsen | Tags: , | 1 Comment

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Urban Entrances.91

Posted by  |  August 3, 2023 | Categories: Berlin, Germany | Leave a comment