Блоги: заметки с тегом Riviera

Ventimìglia in 2023 and 2024

Robert — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:58:59 +0500

Robert:

The railway station’s clock:

A number plaque:

Blossoms:

The port:

Monaco in 2022 and 2023

Robert — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:48:21 +0500

Robert:

In Monaco, everything smells amazing: the trees outdoors and perfumes indoors.

Also, strangers greet each other when entering and exiting the elevator. Everyone has true respect for one another.

But sadly not all elevators have good typography. The 8 looks too much like a B, and the D looks too much like a zero:

The ventilator swastika is cool thô

A bit of nature:

A confident-looking man:

The Continental:

Crowdstrike before it was famous:

A tall building:

Textures:

Bordighera in 2023 and 2024

Robert — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:06:18 +0500

Robert:

A little tower:

Blossoms:

A passage to the sea:

A homemade plaque:

Roquebrune in September 2023

Robert — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:47:19 +0500

Robert:

A view:

Looks like somebody was murdered here:

Plaques:

A door to the Datcha:

Ospedaletti in March 2023

Robert — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:35:38 +0500

Robert:

A number plaque:

The museum I work at:

Pretty ornaments:

Ungrateful illegals

Robert — Mon, 15 May 2023 22:33:44 +0500

Robert:

Here comes what I didn’t show in my Ventimiglia photopost.

~~Berberian invaders~~ Illegal immigrants have used functional taxpayer-funded items in the most stunning of ways: ungratefully dumping them into the beautiful nature.

Immigration should benefit the country.

Ventimìglia in August 2022

Robert — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:18:05 +0500

Robert:

Moving on from Menton.

The mountains on the Franco-Italian border look stunning:

The pathway to the cave:

The longest pointing stick that I’ve ever seen (oh, and there’s the cave too):

Gorgeousness:

The road to the city has been trashed by illegal immigrants, and deserves a post of its own.

Beautiful views:

Gas:

Typography:

An architectural collage, if you will:

The new Ventimìglia port from above:

A map:

Columns:

Plaques:

A roundabout with a pretty logo in the background:

Area 51:

Menton-Garavan in August 2022

Robert — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:47:24 +0500

Robert:

The train’s exterior (the pattern below is based on the region’s coat of arms):

Stickers inside the train:

The train station:

An old car:

Plants:

A texture:

Something to attach bikes to:

Plaques:

A mosaic:

The port:

The sea:

The mountains:

A long dog:

Onto Ventimiglia.

Sanremo in 2019...2021

Robert — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 13:16:24 +0500

Robert:

Sanremo is my favorite city in the world.

The sea:

The e-scooter path near the sea:

A crab:

Flowers:

Cactii:

A tree stump:

Other plants:

Textures:

The Santa Tecla Fort:

A tower in the nearby town of Ospedaletti:

Cap-d’Ail in July 2019

Robert — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:00:32 +0500

Robert:

I like to swim in lakes, not seas. But the Mediterranean Sea in Cap d’Ail is an exception:

Limestone, ceramics, typography:

A round stone:

Esthetically pleasing seashells:

Nice wall and house:

Interesting plant:

Cactii:

Flowers:

Nature is beautiful:

Monaco’s flag

Robert — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 18:04:28 +0500

Robert:

This is Monaco’s flag. It’s identical, except for in proportions, to Indonesia’s:
🇲🇨

But Monaco has an alternative flag and pattern (mostly used on licence plates), which reminds of its moneymaker the Casino, which would make Monaco instantly recognisable anywhere on Earth:

Monaco, why not make the latter the official flag?

“Events in the Riviera” website

Robert — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:15:47 +0500

Robert:

I started working on this project in July, when I saw ugly event posters being put up around Sanremo. To fix this, I made a classy three-page document:

It then occurred to me that the official posters were already put up, therefore my design could not get widespread until next month. Secondly, Sanremo isn’t the only city to host interesting events, so a logical continuation of the project would be encompassing events happening in the surrounding area.

To make sure everyone knows what’s happening, I made a website, which, unlike posters, can be edited at any time. I’ve been updating it ever since. I’m now searching for a person that would do so for me.

I know, it doesn’t pop: it’s bare-bones. It’s not hosted on my server yet. The speed of adding new events is limited by how quickly I find something interesting, plus there’s no mechanism for updating. That’s why it’s still in beta. Tell me what you think: robertblinov.net/misc/riviera

P. S. I’m now going to document every update I make. Today I added a checkmark that appears on events that I verified by visiting. This system will not always work as events usually happen at a certain time, but it works nicely on those that last several days.