Barcelona is a famous city – and many visit every day. Gaudí stands out of course, but there are also modern structures worth a view. Go to Cee for more!
Byggnader
Travel Theme: Golden
A late night’s walking close to St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. A thin drizzle made the beauty of it even more golden.
Cee’s fun Foto Challenge: Abandoned Buildings or Barns
One of my favourites where I live – the abandoned silo building. Ugly maybe, but has still got a certain attraction. A home for birds and skaters!
For more abandoned buildings, click here.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge
This courtyard is said to be the most beautiful one in Rome. Even the sky above seems to say so. The theme is Converge.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular
Angular – two roofs and a ceiling for this challenge. From Sweden, Poland and Italy. All of them old, well preserved and very special.
The old monastery church at Varnhem, Sweden
The old Mill, Gdansk
A Roman church – we visited many…
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Doors, Door Knobs and Handles
I love doors and everything on them…so for Cee’s challenge, I have some Roman doors. All collected two weeks ago.
Big enough for a car
The Lateran…
…close-up
S.t Peter’s
Porta Sancta
Inner court
Below street level…?
How many keys do you need?
Travel Theme: Arches
A late night walk in Rome. More arches than in The Colosseum is hard to find.
Walking home treats you to some stunningly beautiful bridges over the Tiber. You never want that soft night to end.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent
A story of – Descent.
I have just returned from Rome, and a trip back in history to the once lively old seaport of Rome, Ostia Antica. This was ”the mouth” of the River Tiber, but due to silting it now lies 3 kilometres from the sea. The theatre, once double the hight of these remains – is still, today, a beauty. Three hours of walking through the whole area of magnificently preserved buildings with frescoes and mosaics, listening to birds singing and the old stones telling their silent story – is time well spent.
Gdansk, Saint Bridget and Sopot
On our way to the railwaystation, we just had to visit the Church of Saint Bridget (Swedish Sankta Birgitta). Maybe it doesn’t look much from the outside – but inside – you are filled with awe.
Destroyed, rebuilt and restored – this church is, and since the 1980’s associated with the Solidarity Movement.
The silence and the crystal air was fascinating. The windows the only source of light in here. But that is enough.
Everything serene, and the altarpiece is planned to have only pure amber in its decorations. Together with red, white and silver, this golden amber art had me standing in total silence and contemplation, head uplifted, for at least 30 minutes.
Saint Bridgit
Walking towards the railway station, autumn showed its true colours.
And then – Sopot next. The summer city of Poland with 40 000 inhabitants. An old health resort with the, always terrible, water which should be good for you…
The hotel
The endless beach
The pier is the longest wooden pier in Europe – 512 m
He was a young, friendly guy, sitting there watching me…
…but when I had nothing to offer him, he turned his back on me and flew away…
By train back to Gdynia again – a soft and lovely evening. We found our Stena Line ferry, heading for Karlskrona.
This was an amazing and unexpected adventure – close to home, but with totally unexpected outcome. To be recommended!
A sunny walk through Gdansk
Last weekend we spent in Gdansk, Poland. We went by ferry from Karlskrona to Gdynia, and then by taxi and train to and from Gdansk and Sopot. I had a gloomy vision of Poland since my school days – coal, polluted, misty, drab…and no one could convince me of anything else. I had to see it with my own eyes….And, I was met by lovely people (not that good English speakers, but there are hands, feet, body and face to use!), a wonderfully restored city and a glorious resort in Sopot.
Early morning mist and we woke up to this wiew of the harbour. Looking out through the window, the big cranes were sailing by…
….behind the containers, the city itself was rising from the morning mist.
The King walked this way when he had received the key to the city. Dluga – or the Long Street. It is difficult to understand how all these magnificent buildings all were rebuilt from the disasters of WWII.
Passing the Town Hall, which is the highest building in the city – 81 metres – we reached the fountain of Neptune. But first, let’s take a closer look at some of the architecture.
Oh, the doors and their ornaments…
…and all the old and new signs and lamp posts, intricately woven in iron.
Many old ladies were selling their home made knittings – among many other things…in the street.
And the colours were amazing – on houses and people and clothes and …
…balloons!
This fountain, built in 1549, was so popular with the citizens that they took it down piece by piece to hide it during the war. Not until 1954 was it put together again!
And now, the mighty Neptune himself guided us to…
…the Waterfront. Restaurants, cafés and people, people. More from the beauty, the people and the ships on the Waterfront in the next post!
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