The last collection of the year. Since I can’t seem to have snow this year – my garden can’t decide if it’s autumn or spring, I have blooming shrubs next to mushrooms – a reminiscing look at years gone past.
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Just a collection of odd ones. I saw this one in the Kleinwalsertal in summer. The colours alone are … well, eye-catching:
And from the same location, just a 1000 altitude metres higher, comes this bench. It think it’s been mounted on skis so that it can be dragged away easily after the first snowfalls of the season:
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No backrest – but still a bench of sorts.
It’s from Roker Beach, Sunderland.
I found both those “sitters” near the Biosphärenhaus in Fischbach, in the South West of Germany. I like both, the little metal knight with the fishes on his shield (Fischbach, of course), but also the reading lady.
It’s not a terribly original message, but the bench itself is quite unusual. I saw it in the Kleinwalsertal, this little curious part of Austria that is only accessible via Germany.
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Bench with a message
When I saw this message on a bench in Princess Garden in Edinburgh it caused me to check up on the tragedy of Air New Zealand.
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I found another bench – this time with a decidedly autumnal theme, figuratively and literally – in Durham, Northumberland.
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I saw these benches on Roker Beach in Sunderland, but the most poignant plaque – about refugees coming in a small boat from Norway during the second world war – is from Holy Island some 100 miles further north.
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