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Above the Arctic Circle, midway between the Lofoten Island and the North Cape is Tromso. The city is actually an island connected by two bridges.
Tromso is located in a spectacular setting between islands, picturesque fjords and dramatic mountain peaks.
This image was taken from our hotel room early in the morning soon after it had stopped snowing.
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Day 12: A day in Húsavik. We spent a day in this place, Húsavik is a beautiful port city, famous in Iceland for sighting whales!!
What a emotive experience!!
This week the photos maybe a bit repetitive, but for me is interesting show us... =O)
Have a great week my friends !!
Die Stadtgemeinde Stykkishólmur liegt im Westen Islands in der Region Vesturland an der Nordseite der Halbinsel Snæfellsnes.
Hier hatten wir ein ganz süßes kleines Hotel mit einem winzigen Zimmer, dafür gab es morgens Lachs zum Frühstück
A scene from Ullapool Harbor, on the West Coast of Scotland, a very idyllic and interesting little town.
There are more pictures from Scotland – both landscapes, urban photos, castles and flowers – in the Scotland album
Oslo harbor with all the ferries coming and going 😊
They are on the move to the islands in the fjords and to a place called Nesodden.
Lots of people are travelling out to the small islands to enjoy swimming and barbequing.
It has been so dry for weeks now, so barbeque isn't allowed, but it's nice even tho to travel out to these islands.
All the yachts are pretty cool to watch too, some of them are pretty big.
Anchoring at AkerBrygge must be pretty nice for them, it's full of life here all season, lots of restaurants with various food.
It's indeed very nice.
Lady Maryland and Sigsbee docked at the Frederick Douglass- Isaac Myers pier in Fells Point, Baltimore Harbor.
Split, Croatia, view of the harbor after a departing rainstorm on a spring afternoon, the low light image was taken from the balcony of my apartment, the others from sea level earlier in the afternoon. Happy weekend to everyone.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! I prefer to post a new image every other week when possible, but chose to post this shot one week after the last, to promote a very important message.
A mammogram + early detection can help save a woman’s life. Be educated about fighting breast cancer, and please share the message.
I love long exposure photography. The effects intrigue me, and even though I plan to capture a specific look with each shot, the resulting image often surprises me.
What I attempt to convey using this technique, is the surreal, but not unreal. An image that represents light and color detail in almost every part of the recorded scene.
Website: www.davidshieldphotography.com/
It is assumed that Gorinchem was founded circa 1000 CE by fishermen and farmers on the raised land near the mouth of the river Linge at the Merwede. (Home of Gorik) is first mentioned in a document from 1224 in which Floris IV granted people from Gorinchem exemption of toll payments throughout Holland.
Somewhere between 1247 and 1267, Gorinchem became property of the Lords of Arkel. At the end of the 13th century earthen mounts reinforced with palisades were built around the settlement to protect it from domination by the neighboring counties of Holland and Gelre. Half a century later real city walls were built complete with 7 gates and 23 watchtowers. Otto van Arkel granted it city rights on 11 November 1322.
Jan van Arkel had a dispute with Albert I, brother of Willem V of Holland, leading to war and subsequently to the annexation of Gorinchem to Holland in 1417. This resulted in increased trade and Gorinchem grew to be the eighth city of Holland.
On 9 July 1572, the Watergeuzen (Dutch rebels against Spanish rule) conquered the city and captured 19 Catholic priests and monks. Because they refused to renounce their faith, these priests and monks were brought to Brielle where they were hanged and were from then on known among Catholics as the Martyrs of Gorkum.
By the 16th century, the city walls were so deteriorated that they were replaced with new fortifications and eleven bastions that still are almost completely intact. The new walls were completed in 1609 and were located further from the town centre, making the city twice as large. In 1673, Gorinchem became part of the old Dutch Water Line.
The city walls had four city gates: the Arkel Gate in the north, the Dalem Gate in the east, the Water Gate in the south (where the ferry to Woudrichem was), and the Kansel Gate in the west. Of these four gates, only the Dalem Gate remains. The others were removed in the 19th century to make way for vehicular traffic. A portion of the Water Gate was preserved in the gardens of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Map of Gorinchem of 1869.
In the 18th century, the economy went into decline. After the French domination, the retreating French troops took station in the bastion fortress of Gorinchem. After a three-month siege they capitulated but the city was heavily damaged.
During the Industrial Revolution, Gorinchem recovered. Increased shipping led to new canals being dug and a railway connection to the city. Its population quickly increased, filling the innercity, and new neighbourhoods had to be built outside the city walls.
At the beginning of the 20th century, expansion took place in the Lingewijk and West neighbourhoods. After World War II, expansion started in the north-western portion of the municipality which was completed in the 1970s. This was followed by developments of the neighbourhoods Wijdschild and Laag Dalem east of the city center. In 1986, the town Dalem was added to the municipality.
In August 2021 ANWB named Gorinchem the most beautiful star fort in the Netherlands.
Down at the local harbor is the resident Otter family. There are a few more otters in the bottom of the skiff.
Bass Harbor Head Light is a lighthouse located within Acadia National Park in the southwest portion of Mount Desert Island, Maine, marking the entrance to Bass Harbor and Blue Hill Bay. (Wikipedia)
St Malo is named after the Welsh monk Mac Low, became in the sixth century bishop of Alet, ancient cradle of the modern city, founded in the mid-twelfth century, on a rocky island neighbour.
From the thirteenth century, inhabitants of Saint-Malo captured enemies’ ships.
In 1308, they had a sworn town, and then, from 1395 to 1415, they give the King of France, Charles VI, who granted them with portuary franchises. In the late fifteenth century, Anne de Bretagne, by his successive marriages with Charles VIII and Louis XII, annexed the Duchy of Brittany to the Kingdom of France.
Saint-Malo indEpendEnt
To protect the portuary franchises, the Dukes of Brittany have built the castle that inhabitants of St Malo besiege in 1590 to declare then "Independent Republic" for 4 years until the abjuration of King Henry IV.
Already, from 1534 to 1542, Jacques Cartier had doubled the road of Newfound-land and discovered Canada.
A PROSPEROUS CITY
The city once known as "Saint-Malo de l'Isle" confined in its narrow fence (16 hectares) around its cathedral, partially burned during the first fire in 1661.
In the following years, Vauban and Garangeau transformed it again by making it larger 4 times up to 24 hectares. With its seafarers and its traders who commission for India, China, Africa, the Americas, the prosperity of the city is prodigious in the 17th and 18th centuries.
EXPLORERS OF THE CITY
Gouin de Beauchesne faces Cape Horn in 1701. Mahé de la Bourdonnais colonizes the Mascarenes and recaptures Madras. Maupertuis leaves to Lapland in 1736 to measure the shape of the Earth. Privateers, Duguay Trouin that seizes Rio de Janeiro in 1711 and Surcouf give it a considerable prestige.
After the end of privateering in 1815, St. Malo still maintains its arms to Newfoundland and continue to develop its port.
THE LEGACY OF ITS FAMOUS PEOPLE
The wealth of traders is not expressed better than in the buildings they left behind. If the half-timbered houses with stained glass, like rear-castles of ships, have almost all but disappeared (The House of Poets and Writers), the old stone buildings are still numerous enough to witness the richness of Saint-Malo as this period (The Asfeld Mansion).
Saint-Malo IN THE XXth CENTURY
The battles of 1944 devastate 80 % of the port and Intra Muros. If reconstruction has restored its legendary silhouette, Saint-Malo, historic and maritime great city, since acquires all the necessary equipment for one of the tourist hotspots of Britanny and the first port of its northern coast.
The 26th of October in 1967, Saint-Malo Intra Muros, St Servan, Paramé and Rothéneuf merge: it is the birth of “the big Saint-Malo” and a new beginning for the city