Tag: UK

Do you notice the arch?

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Road near Idstein in the Taunus, Germany
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Under a bridge in Edinburgh
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The gate to the bridge crossing the Rhine in Worms, Germany
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An old archway in Oberursel, Germany

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  This week I found some archways.

More streets, roads, paths, and avenues can be found here.

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Where Romans no more tread

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Cilurnum was a fort on Hadrian’s Wall, today it is known as Chester’s Roman Fort in Northumberland.  The roads leading through the fort and trading post can still be made out amongst the excavated foundations.

Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  For more roads, alleys, paths, and streets can be found here.

 

Well, it happened …

Lothar interviewed by the SABC

In 2015, my husband and I went to the Rugby World Championship in the UK.  We saw two games: South Africa vs. Samoa in Birmingham, and South Africa vs. Scotland in Newcastle.

It was an unexpected and unlikely coincidence that we met a cameraman working for the SABC in Birmingham while sightseeing in town, a day before the game.  It was quite unlikely that we would meet him again in Newcastle, this time with his whole team trying to catch interesting shots and interviews with fans, again a day before the game.  But the cameraman recognised my husband with whom he had talked for awhile privately a week earlier, and so he came to be interviewed by South African television. But it was even more unlikely that a South African friend actually saw the clip, barely a minute long, tucked away in a late-night special human interest slot about the RWC.

But the most unlikely would be if we ever see people dressed up more patriotic than the South African fans on this day.  The most impressive ones were the “cross dressers” – fans who combined Scottish and South African elements in their attire:

For The Daily Post: Unlikely.

More unlikely shots are linked here.

PS: Sorry, I can’t get rid of the second lot of picture. They don’t show up in editing mode.

There is no elevator

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Stairs leading to the castle ruin Windeck in Weinheim.
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Stairs leading up to the statue of Bavaria from the Oktoberfestplatz in Munich.
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Stairs in Mainz leading to the Oberstadt.
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Stairs in the dunes behind Bamburgh Castle.

Stairs are paths, too.

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  More paths, streets, roads, etc. can be found here.