“He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him.”
– Dutch proverb
And my bookshelves would look differently if I didn’t include a Tolkien quote here:
“You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Another photo display inspired by Travel with Intent‘s quoted saying. More inspirational results can be found here.
Slightly untidy, yet serious voyagers.
Voyagers with different priorities – provisions are essential!
And a boot full of very different priorities!
For One Word Sunday: voyage or voyager. More 🎼 “Voyage, voyage!” 🎵🎶 can be found here.
Taking the waters in Mariánské Lázně (formerly Marienbad) used to be very fashionable in times gone by. In this case the waters of the Cross Spring, the most famous spring in the Czech town. A huge pavilion with a cupola bearing a patriarchal cross was built over the spring in the early 19th century. Today’s concrete building is a copy from hundred years later of the original wooden structure – detox.
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe near Frankfurt in Germany was also known for its mineral springs and has a tradition as a spa. The White Tower is part of the castle, here showing up at dusk behind the modern day traffic – crepuscular.
More water (if not the mineral kind) but also close to sunset with the sea at the mouth of the Wear in Sunderland sparkling like diamonds – scintillating.
In Sunderland we visited a friend who we first met in Saudi and who taught us to decode these signs – coded.
And now for something completely different as I can’t find a connection here – lofty.
A Thursday’s Special – pick a word (in January). You can find more photos illustrating lofty, coded, scintillating, crepuscular, and detox here.
from a the distance …
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: in the distance.
More removed photos can be found here.
I don’t know if that exquisite blue flower was the blue flower of the romantics but it could be. It can be found next to fields (hence its common name “Wegwarte” in German, which could be translated as “watcher on the path”) but Common Chicory has practical applications in ersatz-coffee making.
In the blue yonder with a blue balloon.
The side entrance of the restaurant known as “Blue Monkey” (“Blauer Aff“).
For One Word Sunday.
More blue photos can be found here.
Frankfurt and its business and banking district is the closest we come to skyscrapers in Germany. No comparison to really high buildings the world over but impressive enough if you walk around them on ground level and look up.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: unusual perspective.
For more perspectives, click here.
Vineyards always give great opportunities for photos with a definite vanishing point, no matter what time of year it is.
winter
spring
summer
autumn
For A Photo a Week: vanishing point.
Interesting (yet completely irrelevant) fact: In German, it’s an “escape point”, not a vanishing point.
More photos with more vanishing points can be found here.
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