Блоги: заметки с тегом buses

London in May 2023

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

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!

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:

Vilnius in August 2022

Robert — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:55:39 +0500

Robert:

The airport:

Buildings:

A cleanly marked crosswalk:

Doors and entrances:

A restaurant:

Stickers on a pole:

Posters:

A mailbox:

Cool name and logo:

Greenery:

Vilnius loves Ukraine more than informing passengers about the bus’s destination:

Nice steering wheel:

The old town:

The bus station:

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:

Bus route naming

Robert — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:58:47 +0500

Robert:

Bus routes should be named logically, so they can be easily memorised.

This is done well in Bologna. The bus to the airport is BLQ, the IATA code for the airport. The one to Fico food mall is F.

Bus route displays

Robert — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:25:12 +0500

Robert:

Not good enough, Moscow:

Excellent, Genoa:

Bus doors

Robert — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:41:04 +0500

Robert:

Bus doors should always open outwards. It’s just logic: inwards-opening doors take up space that could otherwise be filled by passengers.