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Eriksberg Shipyard; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriksbergs_Mekaniska_Verkstad
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden. It is situated by Kattegatt on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 570,000.
Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony in 1621. In addition to the generous privileges (e.g. tax relaxation) given to his Dutch allies from the then-ongoing Thirty Years`War, the king also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the river Göta älv, where Scandinavia's largest drainage basin enters the sea, the Port of Gothenburg is now the largest port in the Nordic countries
Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo was founded in Gothenburg in 1927. Other key companies are SKF and Astra Zeneca.
Ten thousand thundering typhoons!
MESSAGE FROM FLICKR TODAY 20-12-2020;
"Your plan will automatically change to a Monthly Plan on January 1, 1970 and you'll be charged €7.49, including €1.35 in tax."
1970! + THE BAD PANDA MOST OF THE DAY...;-(((
I've photographed this twice before in 2014 and 2016, and to be honest I was quite surprised it was still here.
The garage where it is used to be French specialists but now they appear to have dropped this and just do general repairs.
Last taxed in 1995. It's interesting to see how a car which is untouched slowly disintegrates.
Previous photos of this are some of my most viewed and liked.
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Bruxelles - Premier regard sur les murs de la ville
Quartier Tour & Taxis
© Adèle - Tous droits réservés
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1993 Vauxhall Astra Merit auto 5-door.
1389cc.
Supplied by Murketts of Huntingdon (Vauxhall).
Last taxed in May 2020 and last MoT test expired in January 2020.
The 18th century salt tax office is now abandoned. As far as I heard the city council wants to let it rot, because there's dry rot somewhere. Unsure though if it counts as lost place. It's in the center of the city.
Not much in life is certain. Death and taxes are the oft quoted things that will surely befall us all according to Benjamin Franklin. Although I wonder whether he anticipated the arrival of the global giants that would one day place their registered offices on a conveniently obscure atoll somewhere near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and render the second half of his assertion rather less assured as well. I'm pretty sure I know one or two individuals whom I should have reported to HM Revenue and Customs years ago for forgetting to fill in their tax returns as completely as they might have done, but then again I like my car to still have all four wheels on it when I leave for work each day.
I think we each have a few things in life that are pretty certain. For example you can guarantee that every time I pour myself a gin and tonic at home, I will get the respective proportions completely wrong, and unlike the ones you may have sampled in the pub, it will taste of gin - overwhelmingly in fact. Possibly linked to this I am certain that despite my best intentions I will not get up two hours before dawn tomorrow to capture a misty sunrise image. There's only one each of 5, 6 and 7 o clock in every day in my life and unless I start experimenting with products that are best left avoided for my own safety, that's not going to change. I'm also pretty sure that I will not finish reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" before this time next year, despite having started it several months ago. It's one of those books we're apparently "supposed" to read. I just haven't quite got into the rhythm of it yet. Let me know if I should continue with it won't you? I normally read about six books during the annual fortnight on the beach, and one more during the remaining fifty weeks. I suspect that's not an uncommon phenomenon.
There's one other thing I feel quite certain of, and it's that for as long as I'm able, I'll keep returning to this place. I'm not enormously well travelled in truth. I've only been out of Europe once in my life and that was just for one week, and only just out of Europe too for that matter. There are places in the world that I'd quite like to visit, but it doesn't burn inside me like it did when I was a young man. I've been to Iceland and I'd like to go again, and I'm really keen on going to the island groups of the Hebrides, the Faroes and Lofoten in the next few years, all with the camera bag of course, But those ambitions aside, I'm very content with my lot. I live ten miles from here, my favourite place in the world. I love watching how the sea, the land and the light change here throughout the seasons. This is the shot I was looking for when I came here three weeks earlier in a storm and got something completely different, albeit in exhilarating conditions. This is my happy place where I come to stand and gaze and dream and plan. The place where the seals watch me watching them. The place where I'm still finding new compositions each time I visit. This weekend I finished up here on Saturday and Sunday, watching happily as the colours changed in the sky.
There are some places that we like to photograph once or twice and then move on because we think our business is done there. For me at least, Godrevy isn't one of them. Happy almost midweek everybody!
(And up.) The rusted state of this sign suggests that having your taxes done for $5 is only a historical artifact. But we can dream, can't we??
Camera: Agfa Silette (type 4) 35mm viewfinder camera with Vario 4-speed shutter (200, 50, 25, B). Color-Agnar 45mm lens, with f2.8 maximum aperture. This camera was a $6 find and required some work to get it operational, but it can produce some surprisingly crisp images (assuming I get the distance estimated correctly!)
Film: Kentmere 100
Developing: HC-110, Dilution H, 16 min.
The Bus Éireann VP3XX (Volvo B10M-62/Plaxton Exacaliber) class will all be withdrawn from Schools this month as they are over the mandatory 20 year age limit for school buses, VP344 is seen in Busárus on a service run as it was taxed as a service vehicle, March 2016
Updated snap of this legendary Allegro Estate, the other Allegro that used to be parked up here was scrapped. Reg is RLF532R, taxed to dec 2025.
Ever seen a whole butchered pig riding a bike?
Taken during an early morning shoot around the Hoan Kiem Lake. The area around the lake is a parallel universe. It's wonderful to observe how it comes to life from the crack of dawn. Of course, it's also great fun following two-wheelers and taking panning shots in Hanoi.
Check out the whole set - Overwhelming Vietnam.
Hanoi, Vietnam
2008
Thai AirAsia X A330-343 HS-XTE Poetic Xcellence departing Narita for a morning flight down to Bangkok-Don Muang Intl.
Updated shot of one of the localish survivor cars i've snapped before, taxed to August 2025 and MOT'd to March 2025, its also done an impressive 99k miles.