#boating in Europe

[garyartista]

Silently passing in the blackness

Germany was not yet a nation in 1870 when war broke out between France and the North German Federation. It resulted in the loss of Alsace and Lorraine. The French built the Canal de l’Est afterwards to replace the transport it had lost. The canal begins just a short distance from Nancy. In 2003 the northern and southern branches were officially renamed Canal de la Meuse and Canal des Vosges. We…

[illustratus]

Attending to the shrine, Venetian lagoon by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi

[sir20]

Toulouse by sir20

[ecoharbor]

📍Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱

[malioli]

On the open sea

[life-spire]

[vintageeurope]

Gdańsk, Poland 1890/1900

[gemsofgreece]

French boat arriving at the harbour of Symi island, Dodecanese, Greece. Photo by Kostas Bouk. 

[aestum]

(by Alex Azabache)

[burningvelvet]

Renaissance era ship jewlery: pendants and a set of earrings (from the British Museum's digital collection and "Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, accessed via the Internet Archive)

[garyartista]

Down with Nancy (the city, not the person)

After another beautiful cruise through the gorgeous Vosges Mountains (see The Grand Est), this time with friends, we came back to Nancy, one of France’s delightful cities and the capital of the Lorraine. Nancy (Gallic Nanciaco, possibly from a Gaulish personal name) has a wonderful pedestrian old town center stuffed with restored half timber buildings. The city’s a center point of Art Nouveau,…

[illustratus]

The Boat of Souls (Dante's Divine Comedy) by Gustave Doré

[calabria-mediterranea]

Scilla, Calabria, Italy

Photos by @anna_aloka

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[ecoharbor]

📍Venice, Italy 🇮🇹

[diesirrrae]

ziemia obiecana była nam dana

[malioli]

It's autumn