22-SEP-2008
A HOT CHOCOLATE BREAK 731
27-SEP-2016
Lake Obersee
WINNER : TRAVEL/SWITZERLAND/AROSA GALLERY
Arosa
22-SEP-2008
A ROMANCE OF THE ALPS 585
Couple surveying the panorama from the Alpspitz peak
28-SEP-2007.
A PASSING BOAT AT LOCKS 999
WINNER : On the Moselle/Moselle/Austria & Germany 07/Travel gallery
Zeltingen
Near Bernkastel
23-APR-2008
A VIEW NORTH 824
Towards the motorway viaduct, and the cable car that runs up to Monte
From our hotel roof
26-SEP-2016
Market Street
Historic buildings line this famous place, and once James Bond was filmed chasing a villain along here in the movie Quantum of Solace.
The lovely building at the end is a former church originally built in 1218 as a Knights of St. Johns' hospice, and was modified several times in later centuries, and had many uses, including as a salt storage place and horse stables in the 19th century. The tower got its present form during renovations between 1879/84. On the roof is a figure of a knight which since 1510 has hammered on a bell to indicate the time. The fresco on the exterior is of the sermon of St. John the Baptist. The building has been used since 1995 as a venue for contemporary art exhibitions.
21-JUN-2009
VIEW FROM TYNE COT TOWARDS YPRES
Tyne Cot Cemetery is the resting place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces who lost their lives in World War 1.... the largest number of graves of any Commonwealth cemetery, for either world war, in the world.
The name "Tyne Cot" is said to come from the Northumberland Fusiliers seeing a resemblance between the German concrete pill boxes, which still stand in the middle of the cemetery, and typical Tyneside cottages ... Tyne Cots. The cemetery was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station.
The stone wall surrounding the cemetery makes up the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing. On completion of the Menin Gate memorial to the missing in Ypres, it was discovered to be too small to contain all the names as originally planned. A cut-off point of 15 August 1917 was chosen and the names of the UK missing after this date were inscribed on the Tyne Cot memorial wall instead. The memorial contains the names of 33,783 soldiers of the UK forces, plus a further 1,176 New Zealanders. New Zealand declined to have all its missing soldiers names listed on the main memorials, choosing instead to have names listed near the appropriate battles. However Tyne Cot was chosen as one of these locations.
31-AUG-2009
A LECH & ITS RIVER . 2 737
WINNER : Lech/Austria/Germany & Austria 2009 Galleries
15-DEC-2016
ENTERING STEENPLEIN MARKET
