Category: By Country
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Palais Royal – not just A bench from Paris
Walking from the Palais Royal, built by and formerly home of Cardinal Richelieu, to the Louvre, today home of the most well-known paintings and sculptures, you cannot miss this one: Just around the corner and about 100m North of the Louvre on the Place Collette at Rue Saint Honoré you can find the prettiest underground…
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Super Rabbit
Near Zurich Airport is a place which is called “Oberhäsli” which is Swiss German language. If you translate that 1:1 it means super rabbit. I guess the rabbits, super or normal also like this calm place… …with a nice view into the corn field with red flowers.
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Why do benches always look new in Singapore?
I haven’t been in the Botanical Garden for quite a while. Only recently while cycling along the hidden tracks of Singapore, I reached the ever beautiful Botanical Garden of Singapore. Definitely a must for any visitor. I was looking for a bench to rest and recover from cycling in the heat in the middle of…
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The Bench and the Tractor
Somewhere in the Swiss forests. Not sure what was first, the red bench or the red wheels of the tractor. Seems the forest has some sense of colors.
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Castelo Lisboa
This is at to outer wall of the Castelo in Lisboa, Portugal. Obviously, the ancestors already knew how to enjoy a gorgeous view to the lower city and the sea.
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Swing Bench in a box
One more from the alps around Zurich. Amazing to find on the top of the hill a bench in box, and the bench is swinging. I guess the box around the bench is needed to stand the tough temperatures, otherwise you would not rest for too long on the bench.
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Neighborhood Benches or “Quartier Bänckli”
There are more benchers out there. While the Diana (in the meanwhile addicted bencher) was hunting for benches in the region of Säntis in Switzerland, she has found this add for bench-movement “Quartier Bänckchen”. In essence: put the bench in front of the house and not in the backyard. Here the add for the Quartier Bänckchen……
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Stonehenge
It is early morning in Cosmopolis in Singapore. The cafe’s are not open yet. I am surrounded by buildings with names like Fusionopolis and Synthesis and other futuristic names. I had to wait till 7 am to get my regular coffee infusion this morning. To my pleasure there was a henge of benches. Stone benches,…
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Steenberg Golf Benches
And he did it again. Winand has sent some benches from South Africa (a good place to be during European winter time). The benches are located on Steenberg Golf Course, Cape Town, South Africa. It is “only” three benches he has sent but I would assume there are at minimum 18, one at each hole. However,…
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Aries Alley in Zurich
The year starts with a bench from Diana. Definitely the first bench in 2017. The pictures arrived shortly after midnight. I assume Diana was celebratingthe New Year in Zurich, and first thing (well, probably not the very first thing, but still..) is to take a pic from a nice, wooden bench located in the Aries Alley in Zurich (not…
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Jas Hill and Tegernsee
The last benches for 2016 came from Jutta/Thomas from their favorite walk around the Jasberg in Otterfing, close to Holzkirchen and from the Tegernsee. Both last days of December with fantastic wheather for short walks in those beautiful surroundings.
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Simple but Elegant
Shopping is dead. I am not sure if the timing was not right, it was around 3 pm in the afternoon, but there was no shopper in this elegant shopping center. And of course nobody was sitting on this sleak and elegant bench. Even I treated it more as a piece of an exhibition than…
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The Queen of the Djungle
Despite living so close to the Kentridge Park, we haven’t made a walk in it for quite some time. Somehow over Christmas the whole family was ready to revive our past time activity. Kentridge Park has one of the most spectacular tree top boardwalks in Singapore. One can have a really nice view across the…
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Mörön
Diana got exited and provided right away another bench from her travel diaries. With the Jurtes in the background it is clear that this bench is located in Mongolia. A sheltered, swinging bench in front of the Jurte (I assume) with a fantastic, endless view into the huge “garden”. I guess it is somewhere on the countryside…
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Red Bänkli Garden
Another guest bencher contribution. Diana was obviously on country side, outside of Zurich near Einsiedel. It is not located at the famous Zurich Lake but this lake is also very nice, surrounded by mountains (what else would you expect in Switzerland 😉 And she found an assembly of red benches on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Kind of red-bench-garden…
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Xmas market bench in Timisoara
…and here comes another one of Karo from Romania. It really seems that Romanians like colorful benches. Unique as it can be. Hand-painted in typical, original Romanian style. It is one of those practical benches build as a storage space under the seating. If you lift up the lid there is space in to store…
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Colorful Bench in Timisoara
No matter when no matter where Karo is, she will find a bench. And as usual it is not just a bench, it is again a unique one. This one she found in Romania. when she was on the way to the Xmas market walking from the hotel to the Victoria square in Timisoara. …and here is…
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Andermatt gabione bench
We have got a new bencher on board. Winand provided his first bench to this blog. And what a start. I can not recall that we had so far a bench with this style, wooden blanks as seating and the back, gabione building the armrest. Very solid, robust. Swiss-made. The bench is located in the mountains…
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Akha Ama – Bench in a Cafe
“Akha” is the name of a hilltribe in the northern mountains of Thailand, “Ama” means “Mother” in the language of the Akha people. Yes and the name of a nice little cafe in Chiang Mai is “Akha Ama”. The cafe is using coffee from the local plantations around Chiang Mai and the northern parts of…
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The benches of Doi Mon Cham
Doi means “hill” in the Thailanguage. Mon Cham is a rather famous hill in the region of Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. There are many reasons why Doi Mon Cham is so famous. It is cool up there, those who suffered under the heat of Chiang Mai, can imagine, what that means for the people…