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Tue 27 Mar, 2007 06:18 am
When you're in an unknown town, you usually look at the touristic places, follow perhaps a guidebook's tour and take photos as advised.
At home, you perhaps have taken already those touristic spots once when you arrived, but usually less afterwards.
And when you go shopping, you seldom look up to sky and notice how the roofs and gables look alike.
At least I mostly behave like that.
In my hometown's shopping area (it's one of the oldest pedestrian streets in our state) are a couple of nice gables.
But I always forgot to photograph them.
Until today, earlier in the morning. :wink:
Coming back to the above mentioned:
our local museum is a quite nice looking building ...
... and most will notice the door(s - the other follows later) ...
... and the gable.
But Douglas, besides shopping perfum for the Missus?
Looking above the shop windows give some pretty views.
If someone wants to read a bit ...
... more at
town's homepage or at
Wikipedia
(We'll come back to that statue later.)
I took the photos in the actual pedestrain street (blue/red) as well as in the one or other side streets (red)
All between here at the townhall (here with one of the side streets to the right, the pedestrian street is on the left of the town hall) ...
... and the town founder's fountain close to the station.
Okay, going to that side street at first.
The timbered house don't really (mostly) have nice gables ...
... but picturesques doors
The neighbouring house used to be one of the local breweries until .... about 100 years (or so) ago (now a pub and restaurant)
The side door of the earlier pictured museum
The neighbouring house is timbered again - nothing spectacular re the "upper part" ...
... but about 200 years ago they changed the original door (and the house from a farmhouse to a "townsmen"- type building)
Neat thread, Walter. When I was in Spain, I photographed doors and stairs a lot.
Well, this is just 4 miles away from my own door - and in foreign countries a don't really focus on such :wink:
In Spain, I really felt a tourist. I was intrigued with these doors into houses and courtyards and the stairs to unknown places because I couldn't go there. I wondered what it was like on the other side.
This could be anywhere ...
... but the gables make some differences
I really like this house - I've lived a few years in the neighbouring house ...
This house was sold a couple of weeks ago, for $650,000.
I might have stored pics from the report in the paper ...
Yep, from our local paper, the interior:
Some more timbered houses ...
$650,000 for THAT?!!
WOW!
Can't imagine that going for less than a million here, if not 2 or 3 or 10...
Well, we do have much more realistic house prices than in the UK or US.
(Actually it was $665,884 according to today's exchange rate :wink: )
And: we're only a smaller town of about 70,000 inhabitants.
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