Countries ending with A As I mentioned last week, I’m taking a break from my Wednesday quotations and tackling geography with an alphabetic slant instead. Last week I kicked off […]
Manueline ornamentation in the cloisters of Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, Lisbon, September 2017 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 31 August 2021 Posted as part of Thursday Special
Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, Germany, August 2021 Leipzig Hauptbahnhof is a stunning building, and it is the largest railway station in Europe by floor area: 83,460 square metres. I would have taken […]
Two men with cameras and Two men on a bench (by Giles Penny),Canary Wharf, London, July 2021 – Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to […]
Museumsinsel station on U-Bahn line 5, Berlin, August 2021 On July 9 2021, Berlin welcomed station number 175 to the U-Bahn network. And what a sparkling station it is – […]
“Untimely contemporaries” by Bernd Göbel, Grimmaische Strasse, Leipzig, August 2021 – pedagogue, diagnostician, rationaliser, urban designer and art theorist. This bronze sculpture was created by Bernd Göbel between 1986 and […]
Young Goethe standing in Naschmarkt Square, Leipzig, Germany, August 2021 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832), German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic, studied law at Leipzig University from 1765 to 1768. He may […]
