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The Ishtar Gate

2011-12-16T23:50:00.000+01:00

The Ishtar Gate, the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon.
Smaller of the double gates in the museum
constructed in about 575 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II.

Demi gods

2011-12-16T23:44:00.000+01:00

Pergamon Altar

2011-12-16T23:41:00.000+01:00

the Pergamon Altar built during the reign of King Eumenes II from the 2nd century BC.

"Parchment" from "Pergamum" (modern Bergama), city in Mysia in Asia Minor (Turkey) where it was supposedly first adopted as a substitute for papyrus

Museum Mercedes

2011-12-16T23:28:00.000+01:00

The Archers

2011-12-16T23:25:00.000+01:00

Old National Gallery Street

2011-12-16T23:24:00.000+01:00

More Bullet Holes...

East Berlin

2011-12-16T23:20:00.000+01:00

Cathedral of Berlin

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Brandenburg Gate

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Bullet damage WWII

Under the Gate

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Open Spaces of a Closed Regime

2011-12-16T19:34:00.000+01:00

Warm coat under a fresh fall of snow

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Winter flies in

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Alex & Dom Wishing You a Peaceful Christmas

2011-12-03T21:58:00.000+01:00

The Gluhwein Blues

2011-12-03T21:50:00.000+01:00

Wrapping Paper for Christmas. .....We got it Licked!

2011-12-03T21:45:00.002+01:00

AlsterTouristik!

2011-12-03T21:29:00.002+01:00

Bank Out of Order!

2011-12-03T21:27:00.000+01:00

"We drank in a bank & we stank"

2011-12-03T21:23:00.000+01:00

Gluhwein (part II)

2011-12-03T21:17:00.002+01:00

Christmas Card

2011-12-03T21:16:00.003+01:00

Gluhwein (Part I)

2011-12-03T21:10:00.004+01:00

Christmas Lights

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Angel Street

2011-12-03T20:56:00.002+01:00

Fairweather Blues

2011-12-03T20:50:00.000+01:00

QM2 Autumn Refit in Hamburg

2011-12-02T22:55:00.007+01:00

"The 14-day refit will require a team of thousands
of workers replacing the equivalent of

almost ten football fields of carpet"

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Anja, Dieter, Hakan, Jorg ....and Thorsten

2011-11-28T17:35:00.004+01:00

Thank YOU!

Mulled wine (4 degrees solution)

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Sausages!

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3 minutes; 3 cars

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Coffee & Playboy

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Whatever happened to a biscuit on the side?

4 degrees; One blanket

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Would you sit outside?

Funny Lady!

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Colourful Corner

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Trave River

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I don't get out much!

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Cheeky Spires

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Holstentor: Gates of Lubeck

2011-11-26T19:12:00.007+01:00

about 500 yrs old
The sheer weight of the structure has caused some subsidence

...and Virginia for scale

2011-11-26T19:10:00.002+01:00

Gingko Autumn

2011-11-26T18:42:00.004+01:00

" These anomalous forms may almost be called living fossils; they have endured to the present day, from having inhabited a confined area, and from having thus been exposed to less severe competition."

Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,

but the one most responsive to change.

Lubeck Train Station

2011-11-26T11:34:00.000+01:00

Passenger Behaviour

2011-11-26T11:26:00.013+01:00

personal space.
8 carriages.
those closest to platform stairs near full.
those furthest near empty.

I will survive Christmas

2011-11-25T23:47:00.000+01:00

Shipping Spaghetti

2011-11-23T22:40:00.000+01:00

http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/01/19/rsif.2009.0495.full?sid=fc038a1c-cd36-42cc-a47c-a80775279d3e

Container Sunset

2011-11-23T22:11:00.000+01:00

"The top container ports are in SE Asia, NW Europe, and the West Coast of the United States.

These locations reflect the patters of global trade between locations for production and consumption."

Busiest Ports By Containers (TEUs)

1. Hong Kong

2. Singapore
3. Pusan, South Korea
4. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
5. Rotterdam
6. Shanghai

7. Los Angeles
8. Long Beach, U.S.A.
9. Hamburg, Germany
10. Antwerp, Belgium

Aurora from Space

2011-11-21T20:19:00.002+01:00

taken from International Space Station: Sept 2011

Sunset Pontoon

2011-11-20T11:15:00.001+01:00

Elbe Sunset

2011-11-20T11:04:00.003+01:00

Sunset Smiles

2011-11-20T11:02:00.003+01:00

A port never sleeps

2011-11-20T11:00:00.000+01:00

Light now

2011-11-19T11:52:00.000+01:00

http://www.die.net/earth/

Port Sunset

2011-11-19T10:07:00.000+01:00

Seagull sunset

2011-11-19T09:39:00.000+01:00

Congestion on the way to work

2011-11-15T22:38:00.000+01:00

Bear Left Germany!

2011-11-15T21:35:00.000+01:00

So you enter the funfair, you can go left or right...

It's a free world after all.

(video taken halfway round the funfair loop!)

"Cuddly" Toys

2011-11-13T20:56:00.001+01:00

"Mum, I want a cuddly fish for Christmas!"

L€go

2011-11-13T20:51:00.000+01:00

...Christmas soon.

Winter flies In

2011-11-13T20:47:00.000+01:00

November Skates In

2011-11-13T20:45:00.000+01:00

Between Zen & Men is...

2011-11-12T23:56:00.000+01:00

Schnoor! - Bremen

2011-10-29T21:03:00.000+02:00

A growing girl!

2011-10-29T21:01:00.000+02:00

Goliath & the Virginia

2011-10-29T20:59:00.001+02:00

Weser river - Bremen

2011-10-29T20:57:00.001+02:00

Tangent Spires

2011-10-29T20:57:00.000+02:00

Bremen Cathedral

2011-10-29T20:51:00.000+02:00

Publish Post

Praying for Time

2011-10-29T20:48:00.004+02:00

Street Life

2011-10-29T20:46:00.001+02:00

Street Still Life

2011-10-29T20:39:00.000+02:00

Bremen Market

2011-10-29T20:35:00.001+02:00

"Bringer of Light"

2011-10-29T19:58:00.013+02:00

Lichtbringer ("Bringer of Light") by Hoetger, April 1936,

intended to glorify the

"victory of our Fuhrer over the powers of darkness"

Brick Expressionism

2011-10-29T19:52:00.000+02:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Expressionism

Nice!

2011-10-29T19:50:00.001+02:00

Street Sculpture

2011-10-29T19:36:00.011+02:00

Street Sculpture II

2011-10-29T19:35:00.004+02:00

Front Bottom & Back! Bremen Town Hall

2011-10-29T19:28:00.003+02:00

Bremen Town Hall

2011-10-29T19:28:00.002+02:00

Past Waxes Present

2011-10-29T19:26:00.000+02:00

Poor Potatoes

2011-10-29T19:21:00.000+02:00

Coffee? I'll stand. please.

2011-10-29T19:15:00.000+02:00

Why do Germans stand to drink a coffee?

Kids playing with pigs

2011-10-29T19:12:00.000+02:00

Turn Around, please

2011-10-29T19:08:00.003+02:00

The Bremen Town Musicians

2011-10-29T18:56:00.007+02:00

And they never needed to go to Bremen to make music—which would have brought the people of Bremen great relief, had they but known.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Bremen Musicians plus One

2011-10-29T18:52:00.000+02:00

I love Santa!

2011-10-29T18:33:00.004+02:00

Bremen Nights

2011-10-29T18:30:00.001+02:00

Flying Fish

2011-10-22T10:53:00.000+02:00

Halloween Market

2011-10-22T10:51:00.000+02:00

Happy Halloween!

2011-10-22T10:48:00.000+02:00

Blankets & Ice Cream!

2011-10-22T10:47:00.000+02:00

Little Things

2011-10-22T10:43:00.000+02:00

Lost in Translation

2011-10-22T10:18:00.000+02:00

Door life

2011-10-22T10:14:00.000+02:00

Benchlife

2011-10-22T10:09:00.000+02:00

Medieval Transport

2011-10-22T10:07:00.000+02:00

Medieval Ships & Quay

2011-10-22T10:02:00.000+02:00

Great Gable

2011-10-22T09:57:00.000+02:00

Luneberg

2011-10-22T09:50:00.000+02:00

Standing on Teufelsbrück

2011-10-14T07:55:00.008+02:00

(Teufelsbrück = Devil's bridge!)

flat life.

2011-10-06T21:00:00.000+02:00