Went on a 2-day trip to Paris with my wife a few months ago during the winter period. Paris is too big to try and see in a mere 2 days so upfront we decided only to visit a few landmarks and interesting sites, not too much at all, guess what: we still did only half! Another trip’s begging, maybe now during the summer period... would be nice to have some contrast. For food and drinks Paris is cheap compared to where I live!!

Paris Trip 2008

Some time ago we went to Blankenberge for a weekend. While my wife was attending a congres, I took the time to take some scenery snapshots of the beach very early in the morning. It wasn’t summertime and at 9am there is not much action going on yet.

Here you see an image of the Pier, it’s renovated some years ago. The original construction dates back from 1894 and the idea of came over the canal from GB. In Brittain the art of building piers for fun and leasure had become a real expertise. Before that piers were mainly build to aid in unloading ships that were too big to approach the docks.
The Germans burned it down during the WWOI. In 1933 it was rebuild and all was well until “rot” was discovered in the concrete and the needed renovation started in 1999. The hit from the purple rain prince, hence my choice of colour layering... No not really

Go to the gallery [in the varia section]