Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Cities and City-structures

24 december, 201424 december, 2014 / Leya / 8 kommentarer

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!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Landscapes or Seascapes

18 december, 201422 december, 2014 / Leya / 10 kommentarer

From Ostia Antica we went by train to the sea. I hadn’t expected anything special really, but we had a lovely walk. Here, two afternoon seascapes for Cee’s Challenge.

Travel Theme: Freedom

13 december, 201422 december, 2014 / Leya / 19 kommentarer

Freedom…a magical word. To those who live in countries with dictators, to those who live under dictators at home, to those who are chained to their jobs, to those who…

The word freedom I think belongs to those words that never will be worn out. Partly because there are so many ways of enterpreting its inner meaning.

When I think of freedom, in my life, I would say it means freedom of thought and freedom to live some days without any ”musts”. Those days are so precious…and without doubt, they are often connected to being alone, hiking and travelling. Travelling in a mindblowing book or travelling over geographic land and sea.

I will try to picture my Freedom, and I’m grateful to Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack, for being allowed and able to. I looked through pictures I thought would give me that feeling, and my final choices were these:

Lastly, hard to admit it, but…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bridges

9 december, 201422 december, 2014 / Leya / 11 kommentarer

Bridges – Night and day, they are all in Rome. The Vatican, Castel S. Angelo and Unknown…

For more bridges, go to Cee – click here.

Travel Theme: Slow

6 december, 201423 december, 2014 / Leya / 18 kommentarer

Slow is the theme for Ailsa this week…I guess the photos could speak for themselves!

Who are you – on My road?

Silvery hat

Warm and lazy

Street market, Gdansk

An evening in Ostia – but what is this man doing on the beach…?

Travel Theme: Above

29 november, 201423 december, 2014 / Leya / 16 kommentarer

I love seeing things from above, and the first picture is from my neighbourhood, Hovdala. The little toy tractor in the autumn harvest.

Rome and the view of the bridge leading to Castel Angelo.

In an aeroplane the view is of course even more impressive. The Alps make me long for snow this winter.

But, my all time favourite for this theme is of course this photo: https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/weekly-photo-challenge-the-golden-hour/

For more of the theme Above, click here.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Joints and/or Things You Enjoy

29 november, 201429 november, 2014 / Leya / 7 kommentarer

First of all I would like to thank you, Cee, for being featured last week! I’m honoured!

This week is a bit more grim…for Joints I cannot stop thinking of my visit to Rome and the Crypt of the Capuchins.

My reaction on entering this ossuary, was at first a bit violent…but after walking the thirty metre long corridor with all niches decorated with human bones and skulls, the hanging lamps made of vertebrae and whole skeletons standing watch – I got used to it and could almost admire the fantastic patterns once made by the monks. I read somewhere that the bones of about 4000 monks were used to build this scenery, starting in the 17th century and finished not until the end of the 19th century.

”What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.” This is the memento mori written down here, in three languages.