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World famous Cottesloe Beach
Cottesloe is one of the more famous beach suburbs of Perth. It is the renowned Cottesloe Beach house, which makes this beach so remarkable. And it was a great moment when I walked down the beach road and suddenly the famous building was right in front of me. I was touched. So many years I…
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Some red colour in the greenery of Kings Park
One thing to do, if you ever visit Perth in Western Australia, is to have a walk in the famous Kings Park. It is big it is really big and in the middle of the city. And at one edge of the park you get a wonderful view down to the center of the city.…
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Kottenforst bench
Kottenforst Bad Godesberg. After a long walk on calm summer evening this bench invited for a long rest. Dog, master of the dog, bench and forest experienced something you might call symbiosis. Stephan
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Who is sitting on this bench? If you do not want to sit alone, join this guy.
It is a while ago that I got inspired to write about a bench. Anyway at the first glance a bench is not really an object you might want to write about. Even the spirit of the other contributors of the “Bench Mark” has died down. They might have lost the purpose why to shoot…
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Is this an Animal Farm?
Japanese Garden and Chinese Garden in Singapore are close neighbours, once you are in the Chinese Garden, you can’t miss the Japanes Garden. In case you are visiting the Chinese Garden, you have to visit the Japanese Garden as well. Yet not to my surprise the Japanese Garden appeared less colourful. The Chinese Garden was…
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Chinese Garden
You wouldn’t believe that I am living since 18 years in the wonderful city of Singapore and have visited the Chinese Garden only twice.And to be honest, I think it was some 18 years ago. To that time I must have rated the Garden as not worthy enough.This time I came with my own bike,…
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A modern design from the past.
You can say Singapore is in a kind of 3rd or 4th remaking. I am here for some 18 years only, so I have watched one major redesign. Very obvious was the remaking of the busstops. Today we can see the red-white busstops and cream-coloured seats very rarely. Sometimes they are used for temporary busstops…
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How a simple bench can provide a great view.
Singapore is known for solid and formidable benches. There might be a bit of a concern about the locations and number of benches in certain places, but you can trust me there are a lot of nice benches around the island. Some of those great benches are placed, I hope not consciously, right in the…
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English Garden behind Monopteros
This bench has been for quite a while on my radar. It is the so called “Steinerne Bank”, designed by the famous Munich architect Leo von Klenze. It is basically half a circle of a stone bench on a kind of an island behind the well known Monopteros. …and that is basically also the view:…
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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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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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Benches in an Elephant Camp
I didn’t expect to find benches of that kind in an Elephant camp. Only because we were late and the elephants had to go back to their home with their Mahouts, I got interested in an Arts Room, which was set up in the middle of the elephant camp. It was a room full of…
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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…
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Kaltenberg Knights Festival
Every year in July there is a medieval festival in Kaltenberg, hosted by the local brewery. Thousands of visitors – mainly parents with kids – come and enjoy a day in a Middle Age, eating and drinking and watching the epic fight of “good and bad”. http://www.ritterturnier.de/ New since this year: Right at the entrance…
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Art for the National Park Berchtesgaden
It is the “Day of Pokemon Go” and being (still) very fond of Poke hunting we go for a stroll after dinner to increase our levels. All of sudden I found it – still in front of the craft shop: The ultimate bench: * Hand crafted by one of the local artists (in Berchtesgaden there…
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City Center Berchtesgarden
This bench can be found in front of the city hall in Berchtesgarden. Quite comfortable with the “build-in” table.
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Entrance to Colle du Val d’Elsa
A long stone bench in front of the city entrance of Colle di Val d’Elsa. I guess in ancient times the ordinary people had to wait to be let into the town for an audience with the authorities and this long bench gave them some seating. Sent from my Windows Phone
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Odd Bench in Paradise
I have visited Phang Na Bay, which is a huge maritime nature reserve in South Thailand. Phang Na Bay is known for it unique form and spread of islands close to the mangrove forest of Phang Na, which I assume must be a province in Thailand. The most famous of the islands is James Bond…
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The 5 Empress
I don’t know what struck me to come out with the name for those 5 benches. Yet if you could see what I can see then you would observe that royal pride on the faces of those 5 benches. I guess, now you want to ask me, where are the faces of those 5 benches.…