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Tulip Festival in Istanbul

April in Istanbul is tulip time; parks, squares and roadsides all revel in the bright colours of these cup-shaped flowers. The word tulip, is believed to derive from the Ottoman Turkish tülbend […]

-Denmark

Z is for… ZigZag

There was something about this zigzag water feature that just invited people to step their way across them. I have reached the end of this year’s  April A to Z Challenge.  It has […]

-Turkey

Across the Rooftops of Istanbul

-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 87 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photos taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own […]

South

Beautiful Ruins

Celtic settlement of the Catuvellauni tribe; major Roman city of  Verulamium; Anglo-Saxon territory of Verlamchester – the modern Cathedral city of St Albans has an extraordinarily long history and there are still visible traces of […]

-Sweden

Y is for… Yah Boo Sucks

This strange character was thumbing his nose to all around him in a busy square in Stockholm. Yah boo sucks = to show you have no sympathy towards someone (source: urbandictionary.com)  Part […]

Alphabet Challenges

X is for… X-ray Kiss

Hugh Turvey has coined the term xogram to describe his art, which is a crossover between x-rays and photography.  He says “the only difference between my x-ray images and the photograms […]

-Turkey

Resistence

The annual Istanbul Street Art Festival has, in the last two years, brought some giant murals to the district of Kadıköy, on the Asian side of the Bosphorus. This piece is Resistencia by […]