Cee’s fun Foto Challenge: Wheels

Wheels? Well, where would we be without them? This cottage is situated by the Kingston Flyer station on the South Island of New Zealand.  Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: WheelsNya Zeeland 2 252

Travel theme: Brown

När jag var ung var brunt min favoritfärg. Jag hade bruna stövlar, bruna manchesterjeans, en brun tröja och en ljusbrun skinnjacka. Genom åren har jag alltmer börjat använda ljusare och mer färgglada kläder – åtminstone på sommaren.

Brunt är en av de mest framträdande färgerna i vårt liv och vår miljö. Jorden, från vilken vi kommer, från vilken vi får allt vi äter och i vilken vi till slut hamnar när det är dags för oss att sluta vår vandring här.

Jag tycker fortfarande mycket om brunt i alla dess nyanser. Men, jag vet också att många människor inte tycker om brunt – kanske till och med hatar denna färg…gör inte det! Den bruna jorden är en del av oss, den tillhör oss och vi tillhör den.

When I was young, brown was my favourite colour. I wore earth coloured boots, jeans and sweater and a light brown leather jacket. But, over the years, I have started to wear more colourful clothes – at least during summer.

The colour brown is all around us. It’s the colour of earth, where we come from, where we live, from where we get our food and in which we will end up in due time.

I still love this colour and all its nuances and shades. I know that many people don’t like it, maybe even hate it…please don’t! The brown earth is a part of us all. It belongs to us and we belong to it.

For more brown colours, go to Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack?

Travel Theme: Deep

The worst walk in a spiral staircase – ever – was made here, in one of the towers of Sagrada Família. It was so narrow and impossible to see the end of it from above. It was a mere deep hole in which I was to step down. Elevator up. Staircase down. No banisters. I’m not afraid of heights, but I often dream of getting stuck in narrow tunnels or holes and getting nowhere. This was a nightmare, but I made it.

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This deep crater is to be found in Iceland. We never walked down, as we realized it would take some time, and the view is much more scenic from above.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA”We never have much snow down here in the south of Sweden.” This no longer seems to be a fact. We do – have much snow! In 2010 we were totally snowed in and it was impossible to even get the car out. This is the view from my back door. I couldn’t open it and I couldn’t see but a small part of our ”veranda”.

Snökaos 2010 024For more deep things…click here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite

Infinite. I believe everyone has his or her thoughts about its meaning. This gallery contains some of my ideas. I think infinite is a beautiful word, and to me it sounds positive and promising. What do you think? Here are some more interpretations – why don’t you join the conversation?

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Statues, Carvings, Sculptures

I just love statues, carvings and sculptures – who doesn’t? From Cee I was happy to find this fun challenge! Here is a small collection of my favourites. For more of this, click here.

My World In Five Colours – 2013

I have been nominated by Madhu of theurgetowander for My world in five colours  for the Capture the Colour photo competition, the 2013 edition.

The rules say that I publish a post with five original shots from my travels, that best represent the colours blue, green, yellow, white and red, on or before 9 October. I then need to tag five other bloggers and link back to Travelsupermarket on Facebook or Twitter with @travelsupermkt and #CTC13 hashtags.

So here are my five snapshots from different countries in the world:

BLUE: Floating icebergs on Iceland.

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RED: Pohutukawa (” Christmas tree”), New Zealand

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YELLOW: Alley in Copenhagen, Denmark

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WHITE: The Pothala Palace, Lhasa Tibet

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GREEN: Highgate Cemetery, London, England

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My nominees, with due apologies for the very short notice, are:

1. Seonaid of breathofgreenair

2. Nina of Vackrare

3. Viveka of myguiltypleasures

4. Meg of Meg Travels

5. Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack?

This challenge is open to everyone – you don’t need to be nominated to take part. The deadline for submitting your entry is 9 October.

If you don’t have a Facebook or Twitter account simply email your entry to capturethecolour[at]travelsupermarket.com, complete with your name, address and phone number.

Good luck to Madhu and to all my blogger friends that are taking part in this challenge!

Travel Theme: Height

Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? urges us to show something of Height. My entry is taken from the train ride to Tibet over the great plateau in the Himalayas. For more about Height – click here.

The Tang Gu La or Tanggu Pass  is a wide mountain pass over 5000 metres elevation used by the Quinghai – Tibet Railway to cross the Tanggula Mountains. On August 24, 2005, rail track for the Qinghai–Tibet Railway was completed 28 kilometres to the WNW of the highway, reaching 5072 meters (16,640 feet)—the world’s highest, 255 m higher than Cóndor station, Peru.

We travelled Peru 1987 and Tibet 2009 – both fantastic adventures. I had the great luck of catching this sign, Tang Gu La, from the train window. We were never allowed to go outside for photos, and the train rarely stopped anywhere. The compartments all had extra oxygen. The feeling is not possible to describe or explain.

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Travel theme: Through

Through – open for many interpretations! Ailsa’s travel theme had me thinking about finding one natural through and one manmade through. Here are my choices:

Barcelona och Pyrenéerna 2011 518Through a hole in a giant, a fallen tree in a valley in the Pyrenées.

Barcelona och Pyrenéerna 2011 389View through the giant windows at Salvador Dalí’s museum in Figueras, Spain.

For more interesting takes on the theme Through, click here.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Bare

This challenge is a real challenge…not easy. My choice is Art by Gaudí for the theme. His life and nature theme is strong and holistic.  Click here  to meet more of Bare.

      Layer by layer art strips life bare.

       Robert Musil

Travel theme: Multicoloured

I chose only man’s work this time. Nothing beats Nature, but these buildings and works of art are… multicoloured too.

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Vanås 11 september 2011 021Art – Vanås, Sweden

Barcelona och Pyrenéerna 2011 078Art – Gaudí, Barcelona

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Why don’t you join in? I’d love to see all your multicolours!