June 12, 2019

Szigliget (Hungary/Magyarország) - The castle - part 1

Szigliget is, just like Tihany (see here, here and here) and a few other towns and villages I've posted about before, on the banks of Lake Balaton (Hungary).…

by bjornroose

June 04, 2019

Bratislava Castle

I've been back on my travels in May and took a few days to visit Bratislava in Slovakia. It was not like the other cities I had been to, so much history,…

by ladydee1

May 25, 2019

Disneyland Paris May 2019 PT2

by lauraknighton

May 24, 2019

Window montage...

A concatenation of four windows from Beaumaris Castle in Wales. I liked the colours and geometric designs that reflect part of the design drawings and plans for…

by davids

May 21, 2019

Kőszeg (Hungary/Magyarország) - Jurisics castle

In the first post of this Kőszeg series I explained the origins of this town and introduced you to Miklós Jurisics, the leader of a defending army of 800 men…

by bjornroose

May 19, 2019

Peaceful...

by davids

May 13, 2019

Beveren (Flanders) - Castle Cortewalle

Castle Cortewalle is a 15th century water fortress. Nowadays it's in the middle of a nice park. That's where I made these photos (the former mill is right on…

by bjornroose

May 02, 2019

Pápa (Magyarország/Hungary) - part 1

Accents are pretty important in Hungarian (as you may have seen already) and that is no different in this case: Pápa is not papa. This series thus is not about…

by bjornroose

April 25, 2019

Sárvár (Magyarország / Hungary) - part 2

I introduced you to the interesting history of Sárvár castle in part one. In that part I showed you the building. In this part you get a number of statues that…

by bjornroose

April 24, 2019

Sárvár (Magyarország / Hungary) - part 1

Sárvár (meaning "mud castle" in Hungarian), or in German Rotenturm an der Raab, is - how logic can it get - best known for its castle, which played a…

by bjornroose

April 22, 2019

Fontainebleau

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April 12, 2019

Helmond (The Netherlands) - The castle - part 2

by bjornroose

April 11, 2019

Helmond (The Netherlands) - The castle - part 1

We were in Helmond in the beginning of June 2018. The original idea was combining a business trip on Friday with a private holiday in the weekend. The business…

by bjornroose

March 30, 2019

Looking good...

by davids

March 21, 2019

We’re All Royals

by jeffcornish

March 18, 2019

The Land Of King Arthur

by jeffcornish

March 15, 2019

Happy St Patricks Day!

Last year I went to on a sightseeing tour of Ireland, and it started in Dublin on St Patricks Day. So I thought I would share some of the pictures from my trip.…

by lechele

March 08, 2019

Early spring 2019-03

Early spring is the season that I hate most. It's still cold and too dry to breathe well and to make matter worse air quality is quite bad in this season. There…

by tamer5

Feb. 26, 2019

What a difference a year makes...

More or less the same view from the same spot but taken a year apart. The first taken this morning and the second taken a year ago.

by davids

Feb. 20, 2019

Boxtel (The Netherlands) - Stapelen castle

We arrived at Kasteel (castle) Stapelen in Boxtel rather late and the sky was, let's say, boring, but of course I could not NOT make any photos. So, here they…

by bjornroose