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Paris in July 2024

Robert — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:29:24 +0500

Paris was much cleaner than I foredeemed, both on the week before the Olympics in July, and in early September as well.

This train is goïng to Pont de Sèvres. But instead of lighting up previous stations, the linear metro map lights up those the train is yet to stop at. The opposite of a progress bar!

For residents’ tranquility, please do not throw away glass bottles between 22⁰⁰ and 7⁰⁰. Very thoughtful!

Beautiful tower, bridge, river, and trees, all surrounded by ugliness:

Amongst the trees:

Next to the bridge:

Up close to the tower:

Chimney pipes require a different kind of brick:

Parisian café tables and chairs:

Doors:

The doors of liberty and fraternity are closed. Only equality remains:

Spirals:

Other textures:

Posting not allowed:

A bricky building:

A bookshop:

A propeller on the French aero-club’s building:

Just a pretty building:

A pretty café:

The sculpture on the left reminds me of a man whom I will not name (you don’t know him):

Fascinating ugliness:

A statue:

Bonjour Amour!

Design:

The information display on my platform:

The conspicuously missing plaques will get their own post.

London in May 2023

Robert — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 03:49:25 +0500

Robert:

First of all, the euphoric smell is still there. I didn’t find it as common as in 2020 and before, but it does come from the Tube and it also came from a bus. May it stay.

A beautiful window:

A beautiful lantern:

Greenery:

Plaques:

Other address lettering:

Soviet architecture:

A traffic light:

An outdoor table:

Doors:

A mighty entryway:

A lovely face:

Trees and bricks:

A brick wall:

The London Fire Brigade’s coat of arms reminds me of the Kiribati flag 🇰🇮:

Chinatown:

A gallery:

A patriotic flag display:

An ice cream van:

A charming car:

A square:

The London Eye:

Big Sister is watching:

A pharmacy swastika:

Wokeness at the Wellcome Collection:

My message:

The first words of one of my favorite poëms, Leisure, on a sticker:

Other city details:

Unlike Italy, there is a lot of Asian and Indian cuisine in London. Its spicy aromas are a delight.

Packaging at the supermarket:

Drinking from a coconut:

A water bottle:

Swedenborg’s Rules of Tremulation:

It’s a shame Selfridges doesn’t sell fridges.

Florence in September 2023

Robert — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:56:39 +0500

Robert:

A foregate:

A door:

A sticker:

One of the few good graffiti:

Number plaques:

Oops!

Mestre in August 2023

Robert — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 19:54:10 +0500

Robert:

Just four stills from Mestre. I was changing trains and didn’t have enough time to reach the canals.

Plants and an orange building:

Typography:

Cool triangle:

Other shapes:

Cervo in July 2023

Robert — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:24:30 +0500

Robert:

There’s a music festival in town right now:

I’m in love with Cervo’s number plaque typography:

Here’s another pretty plaque:

A smol building with an elegant wooden door:

Interesting stickers:

A table:

Esthetically-illustrated packaging:

Fun candles:

Window ornaments:

Some symbol:

Ah, the textures of Italy:

A cat:

A flower:

Some passage:

A road:

A view:

Villa Cusona in June and July 2022

Robert — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:08:02 +0500

Robert:

Nearby river:

Road sign:

Address plaque:

The key:

The villa, built in year 998:

The views:

The terrace:

The family tree:

A repurposed bottle:

The museum:

The wine cellar:

The wineyards:

Sputnik the dog:

A salamander:

Me:

And is that another Sirian craft in the top-left corner?

Genoa in January 2023

Robert — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 11:44:41 +0500

Robert:

Piazza de Ferrari:

The Ancient Port:

Tiling:

A postbox:

Street corners:

A beautiful palace:

A lottery office:

Plaques:

The Genoese flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (England began flying it for easier trade):

Poggibonsi in July 2022

Robert — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:54:58 +0500

Robert:

Tuscan road views:

Plaque with street name. Notice how the I was placed above the L:

Building number plaque:

A couple of store signs:

The fish shop’s sign is designed in a maritime style:

Street-art:

Flowers:

A building:

A pedestrian path:

Fonte delle Fate (the fairies’ fountain):

A pond with turtles:

The Poggio Imperiale fortress:

An Etruscan village:

Empoli in July 2022

Robert — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:17:07 +0500

Robert:

A river view:

Building with nice texture:

Eye-pleasing “Ristoratore” plaque:

Milan in August 2022

Robert — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:04:14 +0500

Robert:

Clock at Milan Central railway station:

Scooters:

Me in a tree hollow:

A gorgeous plaque:

A marvellous building:

The planetarium:

An interestingly-shaped trunk:

The park more generally:

An electric postal-delivery mini-car:

A biolab! Why do I keep stumbling upon these?

A door:

An interesting shape:

Typography and leaves:

Baiardo in July 2022

Robert — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:10:21 +0500

Robert:

Red reflection:

The bus’s honk:

Honk

Approaching the town:

Views:

The forest:

Water source:

Water fountain:

Flowers:

Mules:

Some green insect:

The remnants of a druid church:

A playground:

A restaurant:

A building:

A door handle:

Ornaments:

Plaques:

Genoa in June 2019

Robert — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:27:20 +0500

Robert:

Ah, Genoa, the city of my childhood. It’s always nice to visit you.

Views when flying in:

Architectural excess:

Homes have black numeration:

Businesses have red numeration. Mayor Bucci, please end this confusing tradition!

Other plaques:

I visited the biosphere for the first time ever, where I met these salmon-red birds:

I gave a different bird a full-on photoshoot:

There also was a nice tree:

On the way to Sanremo, I heard this automated yet drunk-sounding railway announcement:

Il treno regionale 11264 da Sestri Levante per Savona delle ore 17:08 arriverà al binario 2 anziché binario 8

Cherkizovo in January 2020

Robert — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:34:06 +0500

Robert:

I came to Cherkizovo in Moscow Oblast to see the Afinsky-Kostryukov dacha, one of many Russian architectural treasures under threat of demolition. The place was fenced off and hard to access, but I managed to have a pic-free peek.

I did take pictures of some nearby abandoned buildings though:

Bergamo in August 2021

Robert — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:32:54 +0500

Robert:

A bricky side-street:

Attractive stones:

Elaborately decorated gates:

A manhole:

A logo taking good advantage of the arc:

Air Albania’s logo taking good advantage of its country’s flag 🇦🇱

Geneva in October 2020 and July 2021

Robert — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 22:24:34 +0500

Robert:

Wayfinding in the airport:

A foldable table in a train:

Typography:

Eighties’ typefaces:

A logo:

Bus route list. Notice the moon in the night bus logos:

Road signs:

No dogs. Look at how pretty the arrows on the ground are:

No fishing:

A building:

Yes we are:

A fire hydrant:

Manholes:

Tiling:

The lake:

Ducks in the lake:

A monument:

A bench:

Another bench:

Greenery:

The most good-looking public toilet that I have ever seen:

I have no idea what this is, but I like the constructivism:

Villa La Grange:

Majestic grass:

Majestic tree:

Sheep:

Stones on papers:

Yet another bench:

A light:

London in January 2020

Robert — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 19:49:33 +0500

Robert:

Having arrived in the UK for the first time in three and a half years, I recorded my first feelings:

Notice how the Tube train’s buttons are on the doors’ edges rather than next to each other in the middle:

The waffle marking usually applied on road intersections extends to train-station platforms:

Good London wayfinding extends to its Transport Museum:

Parking sign:

Plaque in South-East London:

The classic Westminster street name plaque. Nice bricks, too!

Sale Place:

Two gorgeous plaques next to each other:

English heritage:

The man is turning into an octopus:

The exciting and thrilling danger of death:

Crooked Billet Yard. I’m not making these names up!

Air quality monitoring:

Nice little square:

Greenery in a street:

Vitsœ store:

London shops don’t just sell things. They are places where people come for an experience:

Novelty Automation is home to fun and unique arcade machines:

As well as to a beautiful plaque:

And this marvellous request. (Boycott banks into irrelevance):

The wall subconsciously tells us that this is a cinema:

London’s other side:

Beware of tailgaters:

Hats repurposed into lamps at Luton Airport:

My other photos, videos, and audio recordings of London:
Oat drink ads
Canada geese
Thameslink voice announcement

Bologna in July 2019

Robert — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:52:50 +0500

Robert:

Bologna is home to many cicadas. They are everywhere: in the parks, next to homes, and in the city centre:

Their sound

Plaques:

Plants:

A plaque next to a plant:

A sarracenia purpurea:

Picture added on Dec 2, 2021

Architecture:

A university:

Happy students:

Typographic and illustrative peculiarities:

Neon lights:

A canal:

A shoemaker:

A pointed stick:

A ticket-selling machine inside a bus:

Posters by tram-hating snollygosters:

This view on the way to Milan:

Suzdal in February 2020

Robert — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:54:24 +0500

Robert:

Suzdal is the most beautiful Russian town that I’ve been to so far.

Oomph:

Windmills:

The frozen Kamenka river:

Functionalist bus stop:

Trypophobes, beware:

A tower looks like a blobfish:

Shiny Soviet lighting:

Nice chair: