Under an Unknown Tree

The Ishtar Gate

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.

Pergamon Altar

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

Old National Gallery Street

More Bullet Holes...

QM2 Autumn Refit in Hamburg

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Holstentor: Gates of Lubeck

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

Gingko Autumn

" 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.

Passenger Behaviour

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

Shipping Spaghetti

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

Container Sunset

"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

taken from International Space Station: Sept 2011

Light now

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

Bear Left Germany!

 

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!)

Bremen Cathedral

Publish Post

"Bringer of Light"

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

intended to glorify the

"victory of our Fuhrer over the powers of darkness"

Brick Expressionism

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

The Bremen Town Musicians

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

Standing on Teufelsbrück

(Teufelsbrück = Devil's bridge!)

The Boat's for Turning