July 12, 2020

The Purton Hulks

The Purton Hulks are a number of abandoned boats and ships, deliberately beached beside the River Severn near Purton in Gloucestershire, England, to reinforce…

by gethinthomas

July 02, 2020

Schwalenberg (Deutschland/Germany) - November 2019 - part 3

On the way down from the castle (which was, as I explained here, not really worth the walk) and my meeting with the goats (see here and here) I found a hidden…

by bjornroose

June 10, 2020

Dörenther Klippen (Deutschland/Germany) - November 2019

The Dörenther Klippen is a series of hills near Steinfurt in the Teutoburger forest. Not high (they reach a maximum of 159 meters only), but they stick out of…

by bjornroose

May 15, 2020

JAPAN TRAVELOGUE – LAST OF DAY 5 – TAKAYAMA GRAVEYARD

♫♫ Sad Japanese Music ♫♫ Middleton Sonnet Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) PRESSED by the Moon, mute arbitress…

by angil

April 22, 2020

Croatian Diary - August 10: Osijek - Vukovar - part 4

That war cemetery is a few kilometers outside the city, behind the civil cemetery and in another way part of it. Symbolically, 938 anonymous white crosses have…

by bjornroose

April 11, 2020

Overgrown

by ameliab

March 08, 2020

Looking through

by mslynn

Feb. 17, 2020

Berlin (Deutschland/Germany) - All kinds of everything -…

As promised in the previous post here's the first one of a series of "All kinds of everything" posts on the German capital Berlin. Here's, in order of…

by bjornroose

Jan. 08, 2020

Ulverston graveyard 1

A visit to a graveyard can tell you so much about your communities history and its tragedies Private Harry Ainsworth was 20 when he was killed just three weeks…

by shaun741

Dec. 05, 2019

Remagen (Deutschland/Germany) - part 2

More about the well known bridge of Remagen in the previous post. Remagen however became known too as one of the prisoners camps built by the US to "house"…

by bjornroose

Nov. 20, 2019

Bonn (Deutschland/Germany) - Godesburg

The Godesburg is a castle in Bad Godesberg, a municipality that has become part of Bonn in 1969. My best friend Patrick had advised me a visit to the castle:…

by bjornroose

Oct. 07, 2019

Salzburg (Österreich/Austria) - Sankt Peter Friedhof

In this post I asked (rhetorically, let's be clear on that) what's a city without a castle ? I could of course ask the same question about a city without a…

by bjornroose

Sept. 21, 2019

Nagyvázsony (Magyarország/Hungary) - Graveyard, church and…

Okay, honestly, we didn't start our visit to Nagyvázsony (Hungary) with the graveyard (you might think I'm a little overdoing it after the tumuli earlier this…

by bjornroose

Aug. 30, 2019

Summer Film Fun

Vintage. evocative and artistic or just plain junk? I leave it up to you, gentle viewer, to decide. These are the results from perfectly good, if somewhat…

by granabby

Aug. 14, 2019

Where have all the flowers gone...???

by kalanaimagery

Aug. 04, 2019

Graveyard shapes and Textures

by granabby

Aug. 01, 2019

Pretty Graveyard

We went for a bit of a car ramble and found this very pretty graveyard along the Upper Scotch Line. I later discovered that what I thought was a church was in…

by granabby

June 14, 2019

Szigliget (Hungary/Magyarország) - The village

So, I showed you around the castle (see here and here), but of course there was a village too. And a little harbour. And a war cemetery.

by bjornroose

March 25, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 6

Last part of my Campo Santo series (here's 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). We'll move on to somewhat happier places after this one :-)

by bjornroose

March 23, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 5

by bjornroose