Remarkable Benches Around The World.
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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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Koh Tao bench
And here is another bench from Norbert’s vacation in Thailand. To be more precise, it is from the Island Koh Tao (Turtle Island), which is located in the Gulf of Thailand, north from Koh Samui. Very interesting bench, naturally formed out of the tree trunk/root. Thanks again to Norbert.
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The biggest bench in the world is actually a chair.
I have been personally visiting this chair, some years back but I did not climb it and I never sat on it. I merely was standing beneath of the chair on a rather cold, windy and rainy day. I was amazed to find the chair while far from home on a Facebook page called Lichtklicker.…
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Mae Choice Dragon
Another guest bencher joined the community of benchmark. My dear old friend from university Norbert is on vacation with his family in Thailand. Seeing these nice benches in the restaurant Mae Choice in Bangkok he recalled that I told him about benchmark and he took these pictures. And these benches are really beautiful, sitting on a dragon hand carved…
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Verdi in Riva
At on edge of the city center of Riva del Garda is a tiny park, probably more a place than a park, with a statue and four stone benches around. The composer Verdi is honored here with this statue. It seems that he also enjoyed the beauty of this part of Italy and got inspired here…
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Koutsounari – Crete
These benches are perfect benches to relax after a nice day at the beach. We are in Crete, the South East part of the island in one of the most Southern region of Europe. Koutsounari is the name of the little town. In this aera of the island aren’t many tourists and not a lot…
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Bench alley in Gargnano sur Garda
On the West coast of Lago del Garda is a beautiful small town called Gargnano. In fact all the towns and places around Lago del Garda are beautiful, Gargnano was the one where me had a longer stop for a short walk, a drink and snack. In front of the restaurant at the promenade where…
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Riva del Garda – the modern bench
Riva del Garda at the Lago del Garda is a beautiful place. Nice, small city at the upper part of the Lago del Garda surrounded by all gifts nature can provide. But also here time does not stand still and there are modern parts in the city. Close to a parking house in the city center, I…
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Riva del Garda – the ancient bench
We went to Riva del Garda to meet good friends. 50th birthday. The place they stayed was rented via Airbnb, a bit off the Lago but just great. Looked like some medieval castle. The tower growing out of the rock. One apartment on each floor. Really cool place to stay… …and in front a bench carved out…
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The bench-eating tree
I have heard about it, but I have not found a person who has been actually at that place. And it was Karo who discussed about BenchMark on a business trip in Finland with an Irish colleague (at the bar, where else). And the guy said that he has also an amazing picture of a…
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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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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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Bench and Roses
These two benches are located in the front yard of the world famous monastery “Benedikt Beuren” south of Munich in the “blue county” (worth to check that out) 😉 The benches are covered by roses. Unfortunately, at this point of the year they were not blossoming (I will add that once I am there at the…
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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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Maibaum-Bankerl in Gauting 1st of May 2017
In Bavaria there is a tradition to setup a tree trunk on 1st of May in each community. The trunk is nicely decorated and colored in blue-white stripes (the colors of Bavaria, representing the blue sky and white clouds, but the true story is that the colors origin from Greece. But that is a different story…) According to German…
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