Both are examples of Aachen, the city where Charlemagne is buried and where for about half a millenia the German kings where crowned. It took me ages that Aachen is the city meant when the French talk of “Aix-la-Chapelle”. The narrow buildings are near the … Continue reading The Wide and the Narrow in Aachen
Värikollaasit #442
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Modern Buildings
Japan Center in Frankfurt, Germany. Six Word Saturday
Last week I drove a mere 4 km from home and found out that there is a castle in the second village down the road. I never knew. It’s called Schloss Wiser and is still owned by the family who had it built in 1710. It’s not open to the public cause the family lives there on occasion but when I approached the gates opened. I didn’t go inside the court yard though but I took a picture of the ungated view.
So if the owner and resident is an Earl – what do you call the building then? A palace? A castle? A stately home? Does it matter? Not really, except to a translator who wants to get it right.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Buildings
And another colour collage for Värikollasit based on these colours:
You can check out Värikollaasit for more colour collages with the same theme and find another one of mine, here.
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
Winston Churchill
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the Churchill quote, click here.
I couldn’t match the shiny vintage car of Cee nor the beautiful and stark maritime mural but I found a mural with fish, actually a four storey house with fish.
This was Cee’s given photograph for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:
For more inspired photos click here.
I came upon this odd structure yesterday. It’s on a company’s ground which has just changed its corporate colours (flags everywhere!). The bright colours urged me to fool around a bit.
For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge. More oddballs can be found here.
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