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Urban Entrances.87

Posted by  |  July 22, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | Leave a comment

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Coasting.56

Posted by  |  July 21, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Niedersachsen | Tags: , | Leave a comment

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Urban Entrances.86

Posted by  |  July 21, 2023 | Categories: North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

Urban Entrances.85

Made it back to Berlin for a few day of work meetings last week, for this first time since 2017. Spent almost all the time in our office and its environs, in a for-me entirely new quarter of the city where I discovered amongst other things this interesting little legacy gateway / entrance.

Posted by  |  July 20, 2023 | Categories: Berlin, Germany | Leave a comment

Urban Entrances.84

Posted by  |  July 20, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

Urban Entrances.83

Posted by  |  July 19, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Urban Entrances.82

Staying with the theme of “confusing churches,” the star-design window on this one confuses both me and many other visitors with whom I’ve walked this way before. This entrance has been just a few doors down from my own building for nearly my entire two years here, but from August I’ll be living in another part of the city, so this my be its farewell appearance.

Posted by  |  July 19, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | 3 Comments

Urban Entrances.81

So this rather differently-styled entrance is to the church noted in a previous post as Northern Germany’s largest baroque protestant church. What I’d never tuned into was just how very baroque and old-style some of those early protestants could be. For example, I blithely assumed it was a catholic church because when I was growing up, the only place you saw an actual body on the cross in the sanctuary was in catholic churches. Similarly, I don’t usually see such dramatic renditions of Archangel Michael (after whom this church is named) trampling Satan as one sees in the statues above this main entrance. Eek, eh? All this imagery of trampling, taming, binary good-evil simplifications of complex realities and so on leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth, tbh, so I’ma just pop all my remaining pics of this particular building in this one post and move on to other views in our future HH posts 😊.

Posted by  |  July 18, 2023 | Categories: Germany, Hamburg | Leave a comment

Urban Entrances.80

Long summer days, nice weather, and (long-) weekend travels recently have allowed me to see many more intriguing entrances, so we’ll devote the next eleven posts to exploring them in all their ranges and styles. Hope you’ll enjoy the journey.

Posted by  |  July 18, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

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Country Canals.40

Posted by  |  July 17, 2023 | Categories: Gelderland, Netherlands | Tags: | Leave a comment

Urban Canals.140

As noted in the last entry for this series, one finds urban canals even outside NL, once one starts looking. Hadn’t been to this particular city in quite some time, and you’ll be seeing more of it in upcoming posts. If you’d like to verify your own guess about which city it is, open in full-screen view so you can see the “categories” and “tags” :-).

Posted by  |  July 17, 2023 | Categories: Berlin, Germany | 1 Comment

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City Views.190

Posted by  |  July 16, 2023 | Categories: Germany, Hamburg | Leave a comment

Small Wonders.190

Red currants & cherries, two delights of summer in the north, flourishing in the garden of dear friends outside HH.

Posted by  |  July 16, 2023 | Categories: Germany, Schleswig-Holstein | Leave a comment

Urban Garden.170

And another set of images from a single garden, behind a building which has an interesting history documented in the middle photo of the three-photo gallery just below. (Note: if you don’t see all these images on your small-screen, try again with larger screen or a different browser.)

Posted by  |  July 15, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Urban Garden.169

All of these photos come from the same pair of private-home or private-office gardens that I visited on my “Open Garden Days” tour to which I introduced you in a series that began with this post.

Posted by  |  July 15, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | 1 Comment