Remarkable Benches Around The World.
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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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Hartmut’s Bench
On 30th December 2016 I went for a hike to Tegernsee. The weather was beautiful, I planed to go for one of the favorite short tracks, have a walk of about 1 hour and enjoy a Weißbeer on the Neureuth Terrace. When I arrived there, it was crowded like hell, so I decided to walk…
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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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Buchheim in Bernried
Lately we were at Buchheim Museum in Bernried, which is located at the Starnberger Lake. At that day we went for the “100Water” exhibition, but the museum is always worth a visit with its permanent art works. http://www.buchheimmuseum.de/ When you walk down from the parking place to the museum you pass by a bench. It…
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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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Benches at the Wall
Recently I have visited an ancient city in China. As usual when in China, I was impressed first about how such real cultural gems are closely surrounded by the modern Chinese way of building. Almost impossible for a German villager to understand, why there must be a highrise building in close vicinity to such a…
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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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Autumn in Rheinhessen
Here is another bench from Mike. It’s autumn in Germany and this bench is located in the county of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinhessen). …and as you can see from the view over the wine yards with its colored leaves, this is one of the great wine areas of Germany.
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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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