Diamond cutters at work cutting the facets of a Diamond or two.
Category: Photography
Amsterdam
Our next stop was Amsterdam.
Time Trial
The evening before we were in Brussels we stayed at a hotel in Masstricht where the lobby and bar were decorated with cycling paintings and Jerseys from teams that have stayed there before us.Here is a fave.
Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert
The Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (French) or Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen (Dutch) is a glazed shopping arcade in Brussels that preceded other famous 19th-century shopping arcades such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and The Passage in St Petersburg. Like them it has twin regular façades with distant origins in Vasari’s long narrow street-like courtyard of the Uffizi, Florence, with glazed arcaded shopfronts separated by pilasters and two upper floors, all in an Italianate Cinquecento style, under an arched glass-paned roof with a delicate cast-iron framework.
Frozen.
It always amazes me how people look when taking pictures.They look frozen while dancing.
Bearded Man
Among all the tourist magnets there are in Brussels I was more taken by this chaps beard. Impressive don’t you think.
Atomium III.
Atomium II
Atomium
The Atomium is a building in Brussels originally constructed for Expo ’58, the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak, it stands 102 mtr’s (335ft)tall. Its nine 18mtrs (59ft)in diameter stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.
Roar and Gunn Berit
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