Remarkable Benches Around The World.
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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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Fortezza de’ Cortesi
The location where we stayed in Tuscany for a week was called Fortezza de’ Cortesi, near San Gimignano. A special place and a remarkable landlady. A former actress from Milano, who has a couple of passions. One is the Fortezza, which she rebuild with her husband, the other is the theater (she is organizing some…
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The D’Almeida Brothers
This is a story only benches can tell. But first I have to admit that this is the second Tuscany exception of having people on the bench post. However, with this bench it is all about that, it is about people sitting on the bench and get connected. So, here it goes: I was visiting Radda…
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Benchers in Siena
It is an exception. Usually we do not post benches with people on it (just about personal rights). However, if you walk by a bench a 100 times and you never find it empty, and you probably walk by another 1000 times and it will never be without people. Finally, you have to take this…
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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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A red hot gem “Looking Good”
The Hortpark in Singapore feels great with benches all around. Parents can sit down and chat while their children are playing. Today a solid, good looking red bench reaches my eyes. It was made of steel and painted in a red color. This fit well to the green surrounding. The bench was not placed in…
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Heimatkultur
If you are looking for solid, nice, handcrafted outdoor bench (or nice wooden boxes from the Black Forest) for your garden or terrace you can find it at Heimatkultur. http://www.heimatkultur.com/index.html
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Kramerplateau Addition
I went again to the Kramerplateau trail and realized that we missed the one or the other bench in the last post. First of all, there was a new bench build. A dedication to Erika with some wisdom of Winnie the Pooh. Then I also realized that there were a couple of bird houses which were…
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Somewhere in The “Allgäuer” Alps.
The “Allgäu” is one of the most beautiful areas in Germany. The Allgäu Alps (German: Allgäuer Alpen) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, located in Bavaria in Germany and Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The range lies directly east of Lake Constance. Some Germans can afford to own a little summer residence…
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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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Walkers Benches
I did more research about benches in the NET. I was successfull again. Slowly I am getting concerned, that our “Benchmark” is merely a little mark on a big paper as I could find “Walkers Benches”, which is another website dedicated to benches around the world. http://www.walkersbenches.com
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Salzburg City
I have been in Salzburg now for a couple of times. Last time it was about a year back together with my brother and his son. At that time we have not been benchers yet, it was shortly before initiating the benchmark page. This is exactly the same bench (the left one) where my brother and his…
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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.…
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Sungei Ulu Pandan
Recently I have been riding a few times along Sungei Ulu Pandan. By the way “Sungei” is the Malay word for river. Sungei Ulu Pandan is a river in the west of Singapore. Rivers in Singapore are actually all man made canals. Even the Singapore River is a canal. On hot afternoons one can be…
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World Heritage Hallstatt
Hallstatt is world-famous … since the bronze age, when our ancestors found super-sized caves and salt in the mountains around the Hallstatt Lake. Also today you can enjoy the view of the gorgeous area, sitting in the small niche shown above. I recommend a visit 🙂
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Breckenridge dedications
As hoped and expected Annette provided two other benches from Colorado 😉 The first one is from Breckenridge, which is an old gold mining city within the ski arena of Vail. I guess todays gold is the snow. The bench is dedicated to Michael Thomas Davidson. The second bench is also a dedication bench, dedicated to Ben Clark. A quite…
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Kramerplateau Weg Benches
What a wonderful leisure walk Kramerplateauweg is an easy walk of about one and a half hours along the upper close edges of Garmisch. For those who don’t know, Garmisch was once the host of the Winter Olympic Games. Once in a while one can look down the sloops on majestic Garmisch. An unknown number…
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A kind of a First Birthday Month
July is a kind of a birthday month for the Benchmark Blog. In July 2015 we have filed our first Blogpost. Here is what we posted at that time: July 2015 To be honest, it was my brother, who inspired me to start this blog about benches. He had the idea, when he read the…
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Colorado, Vail – Korst Family
We crossed the Atlantic. Seems my talk in the office about benches was fruitful. Annette, one of my colleagues is currently in Colorado, Vail on vacation. And she donated a dedication bench to this blog. I am still curious about the view from that bench. I could not yet find anything about the Korst Family…
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