2014-02-05 12:03 pm

Regimental colours

Various regimental colours laid up in Salisbury Cathedral. Some of which are, uh, a bit threadbare with age.

2014-01-22 11:48 am

Basket

Close-up of a basket. For no particular reason other than it makes a pretty pattern.

2013-11-20 08:28 pm

Bags...

Spotted during a photo course/walking holiday in Spain:

2013-11-16 12:45 pm

Cogs

Detail (through glass, hence the reflections) of the mechanics that have kept the Planetarium Eise Eisinga running for the past 200+ years.

2013-10-19 12:56 pm

Deck chairs

Deck chairs on the promenade deck of the MS Rotterdam waiting for cushions and sunshine.

2013-08-18 12:37 pm

Cannon balls

Discarded cannon balls piled in a corner in the Sirmione fort (Garda Lake).

2013-07-03 12:09 pm

Deck chair

In the category of amusing things one can come across while wandering....

2013-04-17 01:40 pm

Cutty Sark detail

A detail from the restored Cutty Sark ship in Greenwich, UK.

2013-03-24 12:27 pm

Keep off the grass

Pretty hard to overlook, this bright blue warning sign in the middle of a very green field.

2013-02-23 01:34 pm

Boots!

Nope, it's not a party or a church. This is actually a display in the Turkansaari open air museum in Finland....

2013-02-13 12:17 pm

Digger scoop

Spotted near Longyearbyen, Svalbard: a rusty digger scoop in the rubble.

2012-12-26 12:15 pm

Pine cone

I hope everyone had a good Christmas! And for those of you who celebrate the 26th as well, have a good day.

2012-12-08 08:42 pm

Bicycle

I bumped into this parked bicycle while wandering around Sloten (one of the smallest official "cities" in the Netherlands). An old-fashioned model bicycle that's apparently used for old-fashioned butcher deliveries, you can't get much more quaint than that.

2012-09-23 05:07 pm

Bikes

Taken at the university library of Groningen.

2012-09-02 11:45 am

Bicycles

No longer do people visit castles on horseback; in modern age they arrive on bike:

2012-09-01 12:47 pm

Ship wreck

In most places, this would be considered a wreck, and probably garbage. Not so in Svalbard (Spitsbergen) where such historical leftovers from the mining and whaling eras are considered a cultural heritage.

2012-08-01 11:15 am

Cannon

Probably not how you'd usually would want to look at a cannon.... Taken in Bourtange.