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The Pindos Mountains are quite spectacular. Its numerous rivers sculpted the rocks and shaped the gorges and the canyons. The dense forests with coniferous and deciduous trees, favoured by the climatic conditions, have created a unique biodiversity, with lots of flowers in Spring.
Ask any Greek to name a gorge of Greece and he will mention The Vikos. Jeroen has a collegue from Greece at work and she advised us to go hiking there. In the National Park of Vikos Aoos the bear and wild boar are protected, they wander out occasionally to feast on farm animals. The Vikos Gorge is olso one of the only places in Greece with signed interconnecting footpaths following the Vaidomatis River through the gorge.
So after visiting the village of Konitsa we went hiking in the Vikos gorge, crossing the river of Voidomatis (from the Slavic “Vointo-mat” which means “good water”) which is supposed to be one of the cleanest rivers in Europe. Its source supply is Vikos gorge, in the foothill of Vikos village through underground springs that gush at this point and supply it continuously. Views on the rocks were spectacular and we were the only hikers on this day, as it was still low season here. Even the village of Papingo, with a huge new parking lot, was quiet and empty.
Excerpt from torontounion.ca/event/union-art-black-dreams-aspirations/:
Black Dreams and Aspirations started with an open call for artists to address the question: What does it mean to dream while Black? Union’s programming team, TD’s Art Curator, MakeRoom Inc. and guest judges James Yeboah and Shuraine Otto-Olak, selected twelve artists for a two-part exhibition series that explores themes of community, self-possession, connection to the past, creativity, and the power of imagination.
Located in the West Wing, this second instalment of the two-part series features the works of six artists: Delali Cofie, Iman Abbaro, Adetona Omokanye, Ridge Levene, Troydel Wallace, and Theodore Walker Robinson. These voices interconnect to share past hopes and hope for a new future. The collective dreams are visually presented as a sequence of figures, giving the feeling of a single body in motion. Bold colours intermingle as regal stances and dreamlike states collide to look forward and back simultaneously.
In addition to the group series, special guest artist Yasin Osman is presenting a solo exhibition titled Dreaming in Colour, a poignant exploration of youth and aspiration, featuring a collection of large black and white portraits of young Black Somali children aged 11 to 16. Accompanying these striking visuals are narratives detailing their dreams and aspirations. This collection aims to honour these young people’s resilience, hope, and untapped potential. This exhibition will be presented in the Oak Room at Union and will run the length of the exhibition.
Excerpt from torontounion.ca/blackdreams/west-wing-collection/:
Interconnect
This piece is my emotional and personal representation of how the Black man manifests his goals through interpersonal reflection. As a young boy the future seems so tangible and exciting, but societal pressures and racial barriers create a disconnect for him. As the Black man grows older and finds new ways to navigate these tribulations, he reflects back to his younger self and has a better sense of how to better bring his dreams to life. Through this piece I wanted to showcase that there is more than meets the eye to me and all black men alike.
WISH YOU ALL A PEACEFUL SUMMERWEEK AHEAD!
Baci
The Monastery of St. John the Divine (Agios Ioannis o Theologos), also known as the Monastery of St. John the Theologian, is a fortified Orthodox monastery on the island of Patmos in Greece.
In 1088, the Byzantine Emperor Alexios Komnenos gave the island of Patmos to the soldier-priest Ionnis Khristodhoulos "the Blessed." The greater part of the monastery was completed by Khristodhoulos in just three years. Its heavily fortified exterior was necessitated by the threats of piracy and Seljuk Turks.
The monastery consists of interconnecting courtyards, chapels, stairways, arcades, galleries and roof terraces. Hidden in the walls are fragments of an ancient temple of Artemis that was destroyed in the 11th century. The main chapel is lovely, as is the adjoining Chapel of the Theotokos, whose frescoes date from the 12th century.
With its low, zig-zag flight pattern, I find it difficult to get a decent flight shot of this burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) that we've been watching lately. Fortunately he's still around but in an area with 2 interconnecting paths, and at times, people; I'll return
GT Road is one of the biggest network of roads in Pakistan. Interconnecting the major cities and industrial hubs. The GT road traces back its history to the times of Sher Shah Suri who built the original to help his people and above all his messengers to travel and take mails. He erected inns along the way some of which still survive.
This is an old abandoned bridge of GT road and it stays there, leading to no where at all!
Printed in The Missouri Review (Volume 37, Number 3, 2014, pp. 36-44 | 10.1353/mis.2014.0050) with Two Sentences: (exile : life) by Rav Grewal-Kök (muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journ...)
Venice is a large metropolitan and district city, mostly constructed on multiple islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. The city itself relies heavily on tourism, especially within the summer periods, where the hot weather and night-life attracts double the cities population each year in tourists. Venice's unique aspect is that it has no roads, instead a large interconnecting canal network, that feeds into the oceans surrounding the city.
The extraordinary centerpiece of Hudson Yards is its spiral staircase, a soaring new landmark meant to be climbed. This interactive artwork was imagined by Thomas Heatherwick and Heatherwick Studio as a focal point where people can enjoy new perspectives of the city and one another from different heights, angles and vantage points.
Comprised of 154 intricately interconnecting flights of stairs -- almost 2,500 individual steps and 80 landings – the vertical climb offers remarkable views of the city, the river and beyond.
You can walk, or you can take a boat (going about the lagoon requires a boat; there are 300+ footbridges interconnecting the main city). From the roof of our hotel, the view across the Grand Canal toward the Basilica de Sta. Maria della Salute, built to commemorate the end of a plague, and the customs house, now a museum. c.2015 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
No, I haven't become a corporate shill. I'm definitely not sponsored by McDonalds.
***Gosh, aren't chicken nuggets nice!***
Ahem. Thanks to another insanely cheap taxi (and what a nice scenic ride- all those buildings lit-up!) we went to the shopping street. I was after clothes with badly-translated English, but unfortunately couldn't find much. Still, good fun looking in some of the mad shops.
This building was the best; an absolute mess of shops that seemed to interconnect in very confusing ways. The exterior was absolutely covered in flashing, colour-changing lights.
You're missing: There was actually a huge amount of people walking around the area, but thanks to the long exposure only a few are cluttering up the shot (still- Grr, people).
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Hong Kong! Again! After the first time not working out so well (mostly due to my condition) me and my best friend Michael returned to do the bits we missed out on and generally have a few different experiences than before.
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Vessel stands 150 feet tall and features 154 interconnecting flights of stairs with 2,500 steps and 80 landings. Vessel was fabricated in Italy and arrived in six separate shipments after making a 15-day journey on sea. These shipments then had a brief stay in Newark before they were transported on a five-hour journey on the Hudson, to the construction site
Despite the best efforts of the InterConnect E400 MMC to get in the way, here are more of the Marshalls deckers on the showground shuttle. LX03 OTB/OSE are both here in this one, displaying generic blinds for Marshalls and their twitter name.
Lincoln bus station, 24.9.22
Venice is a large metropolitan and district city, mostly constructed on multiple islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. The city itself relies heavily on tourism, especially within the summer periods, where the hot weather and night-life attracts double the cities population each year in tourists. Venice's unique aspect is that it has no roads, instead a large interconnecting canal network, that feeds into the oceans surrounding the city.
An early morning view of one part of this station taken from another part of it. Several subway lines interconnect at this station. To the back of the camera is a subway maintenance yard. We are viewing the J&Z lines platform from the L-line platform. The covered superstructure with the windows is a passageway from the L line to the J&Z lines. This station has a 3rd subway level underground reachable by a long escalator.
"to hold a we " exhibit at BRIC house"Honoring the many interconnecting relationships that facilitate making and being to hold me a we features fourteen emerging and early career disabled artists and collectives from the BRIClab residency program.
...the artists continually turn to memory, intimacy, grief and the archive as both a source of inspiration and a means of connection. "
Downtown Brooklyn, Rockwell Place
We interrupt regular upload scheduling to inform you that one of Gainsborough's double deckers has hit the road in its new livery...
18027 - the first Plaxton President painted in the latest Stagecoach 'Local' livery - is seen here exiting Lincoln bus station with an InterConnect 100 to Gainsborough on 26.3.21
Seen in Cornwall, UK, Eden Project.
The Eden Project is a large-scale environmental complex.
It is an educational charity trying out new ideas and ways of thinking.
The complex comprises a number of domes that house plant species from around the world, with each emulating a natural biome. The domes are made out of hundreds of hexagons plus a few pentagons that interconnect the whole construction together; each of these is a transparent cushion made of tough plastic.
The ingeniously-designed, simple cutting blades of Colorado & Southern Railway rotary snowplow No. 99201 are illuminated brightly in the afternoon sun of November 17, 2014, at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. Interconnecting hinged blades swivel automatically, to either get out of the way or start cutting into the snow, depending on the direction of the spinning wheel, with the snow gathered and thrown out the chute and deposited along the right-of-way. This wheel of blades is twelve feet in diameter making this machine quite the snowblower!
As usual, I spotted one of the InterConnect MMC deckers, this time it being 10899 in the timing/waiting point for the 100 out here in front of the railway station. Having them wait here is no doubt a measure to reduce congestion in the bus station where parking spaces are at a premium.
19.11.20
One of the six large train stations in Paris. Truly amazed by the number of interconnecting railways there.
another round of mini books, this time with a reinforced binding which interconnects the pages better... our papermaking hill is hot, very hot, 34 Celsius daily... but worse, my husband with fractured collarbone and rib, and the car broke down this morning... will it become easier soon? sigh...
Botanical garden
Interconnecting gardens and exotic woodland, including a rose garden opened by the Queen in 2010.
Address: Wick Ln, Englefield Green, Egham TW20 0UJ
The remnants of the once 12-strong fleet of InterConnect-liveried ADL E400s repainted for use at Skegness in and around 2020 are now scattered across the East Midlands division. NK57DWV (19209) which never gained InterConnect lettering looks slightly incongruous at Mansfield where it arrived in August 2025. It is seen here on Birks Road in Ladybrook on its regular haunt of the 6 whilst operating the 09:48 to Bull Farm via Mansfield town centre.
There are several interconnecting lakes in my area and for years large portions of them had dried up. Over time many trees and shrubs grew in the dry-bed portions of each lake. Then Hurricane Irma came along and filled those lakes. 100% of all the trees and vegetation look like this ... drowning.
Vessel is the new spiral staircase structure located in Hudson Yard New York. Comprised of 154 intricately interconnecting flights of stairs.
The name Kelok Sembilan is adapted from a winding road that passes through the hills in Nagari Sarilamak, West Sumatra. It is part of the interconnecting road link between Central Sumatra and the East Coast of Sumatra.
Earlier in the day, the 100 had been a full allocation of the regular MMCs, but at some stage one of them was swapped out for a Trident, perhaps because an MMC broke down? Despite the fact it was raining, I hung on a few minutes to see it because the vehicle working it was none other than 18038; another Gainsborough President I don't have many good photos of.
It's seen here in Lincoln, about to turn up Wigford Way on 12.4.23, in the middle of what ended up being a complete downpour that I got completely soaked in as I walked back. Absolutely worth it though, for the luck I had with both 53 plate Dart and Trident.
Brylaine SN08BXF, a 2008 Volvo B9TL Wrightbus Gemini 1, was seen in Boston on a service IC7 (Interconnect 7) service to Boston. New to Lothian as their 893.
Fort Pickens, Santa Rosa Island, Florida, USA. The fort was begun in 1829, completed in 1834, and used until the 1940s.
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 10899, a 2017 ADL Enviro 400 MMC, was seen at Gainsborough Bus Station, laying over. New to Stagecoach East Midlands Gainsborough depot in 2017 for the 100 service.
FX06AOA Stagecoach Lincolnshire 16939.
Volvo B7TL / Wright-Eclipse Gemini, Stagecoach East Midland, Skegness depot.
QUÈ ÉS LA MAT?
La línia de Molt Alta Tensió (MAT) és una autopista elèctrica que transporta un mínim de 400.000 volts.
S’està construint per interconnectar Estats europeus i també el continent europeu amb l’Africà.
Serveix per comercialitzar i distribuir excedents d’energia produïdes per centrals nuclears I suposades fonts
d’energies alternatives.
Paral•lelament, és la xarxa que el capitalisme necessita per alimentar a altres projectes e infraestructures de mort i destrucció, com per exemple el Tren d’Alta Velocitat (TAV).
Els responsables són els de sempre i les empreses constructores estan implicades en altres projectes de destrucció del territori.
noalamatgirona.wordpress.com/per-que-no-a-la-mat/
NO A LA MAT, NI AQUÍ NI ENLLOC !!!
Vilanna/Bescanó (Gironès) CAT.
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Under the MAT no flowers are born.
WHAT IS THE MAT?
The High Tension Line (MAT) is an electric freeway that carries a minimum of 400,000 volts.
It is being built to interconnect European states and also the European continent with Africa.
It is used to commercialize and distribute surpluses of energy produced by nuclear power stations and supposed sources
of alternative energies.
At the same time, it is the network that capitalism needs to feed other projects and infrastructure of death and destruction, such as the High Speed Train (TAV).
Those responsible are the usual ones and the construction companies are involved in other projects destroying the territory.
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NO MAT, NO HERE, NO ENLLOC !!!
Vilanna / Bescanó (Gironès) CAT.
A reaction ferry interconnects the small villages Mariaposching and Stephansposching, which are located at different banks of the Danube river.
This Sunday, the Bavarian forest (in the back) saw heavy thunderstorms.
An Intercity train arrives at Köln Hauptbahnhof on 25 April 1999 hauled by 103 133-5. Clearly this has had graffiti removed at solebar level. The loco was built by Krupp in 1971 as part of Gernamy's upgrade to long-distance services and the introduction of a regular(-sh) netrowrk of interconnecting routes.