A renaissance man for the twenty-first century!
Continuing the series, this is a very interesting snap for two reasons and three directions! The first reason, direction to the left, denotes where the German speaking half of Switzerland begins. The first reason, but direction to the right, denotes where the French speaking half of Switzerland begins. And the second reason, direction down under, […]
Continuing the series, if you find yourself in the Middle Ages and are looking to find a nice place for your market, you’ll probably locate it on a river or a creek. Easy way to bring in the goods and the people – and easy way to float away the trash and the refuse. You […]
The nineteenth century saw an explosion of canal building, and with good cause: railroads were a monopoly, and trucks and automobiles had yet to be invented. But today, many of these canals are disappearing fast – but not overnight. So they present a wonderful opportunity to watch how and where they slowly slip from reality […]
Here’s why I find canals so fascinating: they were massive, transformational public works projects, still visible today, but whose need and impact to society have all but left our cultural awareness. And here’s why I find hidden canals so fascinating: out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Dismantling sections of a canal, or covering them over, or filling them in, is […]
It looks like an unkempt street fountain in the shape of a canal, here at the Place de Zürich, on the Rue de Zürich in the neighborhood of Krutenau, in Strasbourg. And that’s probably what most people would think it is. But they’d be wrong. Strasbourg is a medieval city, many of whose streets date […]
One of my passions is finding “hidden canals” – and in the Swiss city of Biel/Bienne, there is quite something going on that I just don’t understand. There is an interesting spot where waterways converge. This is how it looks on Google Maps: And this how it looks in real life: But this Schleusenweg (“lock-way”) […]
Continuing the series, this is one of two cranes remaining at what used to be docks adjacent to the Rhine River in France, but now the site of a giant indoor shopping mall: I’ve blogged about this place before, in connection with hidden canals.
If you’ve spent any time reading my blog, then you’ll know about a few of my blog passions. These are Hidden Canals, erstwhile important public works projects that today are slowly slipping into away from our perception; Great European Cathedrals, of which the greatest are generally in the tiniest towns and villages that no tourists ever visit; […]
Continuing the series, these moments are wonderful for me – they are last glimpses at important history that are just a single ruin away from obscurity. This shows a man made water way along the main boulevard in the French Provence town of Cavaillon, In a forthcoming blog post I’ll explain why this street art […]
In a rare treat I was able to capture all of them at the same time in a clear morning sky! Here’s the much redder and larger Jupiter, just next to the fainter Saturn, And here’s the Moon and Mars, The canals on Mars are clearly visible in this snap. Even today the Martian canals […]