#historic street

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Photo: Edinburgh, Scotland

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Crenshaw Boulevard

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Οδός Αιόλου,Αθήνα

Θα έλεγε κανείς ότι είναι ομφαλός. Ένας δρόμος γύρω από τον οποίον αναπτύσσεται μία πόλη, ή καλύτερα, μία ολόκληρη χώρα που μόλις απελευθερώθηκε από έναν αιώνιο ζυγό και παλεύει να οργανωθεί σε αυτόνομο, ανεξάρτητο κράτος.

Σωτήριον έτος 1834. Η Αθήνα είναι η νέα πρωτεύουσα της Ελλάδας. Κατ΄ εντολήν του πατέρα τού ανήλικου βασιλιά Όθωνα, Λουδοβίκου Α’ της Βαυαρίας, οι αρχιτέκτονες Σταμάτης Κλεάνθης και Έντουαρντ Σάουμπερτ σχεδιάζουν την πόλη στα πρότυπα των ευρωπαϊκών πρωτευουσών. Η Αιολική Οδός είναι ο πρώτος δρόμος που έχει χαραχτεί στο επίσημο ρυμοτομικό και, αυτή την εποχή, διανοίγεται.

Για πολλές επόμενες δεκαετίες, εδώ θα ακούγεται ο χτύπος της καρδιάς τού εμπορίου, της οικονομίας, της ζωής. Από εδώ θα ξεκινήσει η θέσπιση των όρων δόμησης, εδώ θα λειτουργήσει το πρώτο ξενοδοχείο, εδώ θα στεγαστούν τα πρώτα καταστήματα που θα αφήσουν εποχή, εδώ θα γνωρίσουν οι κάτοικοι τις πρώτες γλυκές λιχουδιές και το ρόφημα σοκολάτα, εδώ θα δημιουργηθεί το πρώτο θέατρο, εδώ και το πρώτο φαρμακείο, εδώ θα κάνει το ντεμπούτο του το τεχνολογικό επίτευγμα, που λέγεται «ασανσέρ», εδώ θα εκφωνηθούν οι πρώτοι πύρινοι πολιτικοί λόγοι, από εδώ θα ανέβουν και θα πέσουν κυβερνήσεις. Εδώ, τέλος, θα «εγκατασταθούν» για το πρώτο τους μεροκάματο, οι ανήλικοι βιοπαλαιστές από την περιφέρεια: οι οψοκομιστές (αχθοφόροι οικιακών αγαθών), οι στιλβωτές (λούστροι), οι εφημεριδοπώλες…

Περισσότερα:https://www.ot.gr/2022/09/10/epikairothta/odos-aiolou-o-dromos-pou-kouvalaei-oli-tin-istoria-tis-meta-othomanikis-elladas/

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WOULD YOU RECOMMENDED IT TO AN AMERICAN VISITOR WITH FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN

I am an American and I plan to attend the Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin I am bringing four young children, and my husband. Some friends recommended that I stay at a hotel on Francis Street but others told me that it is not safe at night. What is your rec

A QUICK VISIT TO FRANCIS STREET Someone asked the following question online on the same day as I visited Francis Street [Question] I am an American and I plan to attend the Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin I am bringing four young children, and my husband. Some friends recommended that I stay at a hotel on Francis Street but others told me that it is not safe at night. What is your recommendation…

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Street scene in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Argentinian vintage postcard

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A man selling art, Paris, 1949

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Spittelberg, Vienna

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South Queensferry

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"Quality Street" sweets - TIL that...

...despite this particular brand of sweets appearing in my childhood most often at Christmas, historic costumes worn by characters on the tins were NOT a part of the widespread "Dickensian Christmas" look which appeared so often on cards and packaging.

Instead it's because the characters and their Regency costumes were inspired by a play by "Peter Pan" author J. M. Barrie.

The play was called "Quality Street".

And the tins are collectibles.

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A Christmas-related appearance of the sweets was mostly coincidental, though the empty tin from one year did often appear at the next, full of home-made mince pies or even an entire Christmas cake.

Large, fairly airtight tins are useful that way, especially at trapping the spirituous exhalations of cakes made in mid-September and "fed" weekly thereafter with spoonfuls of brandy, or whiskey, or rum (sometimes all three, alternated) until it was time for the armour-plating of marzipan and royal icing to go on.

It used to be a common belief at home that opening the tin containing an un-iced cake near a naked flame at any time after mid-November was more than the opener's eyebrows were worth.

The eyebrow thing never happened, because it was one of those family fables, but I do remember bringing one such Quality Street tin down to Anne McCaffrey's house when I'd been invited to stay.

It contained not a Christmas cake but one of Mum's famed Chocolate Gateaux of Doom (my name for it, not hers), made specially for that visit and whose recipe, what with the plain-chocolate sponge cake and the apricot-cream filling and the double-chocolate ganache icing, required most of a bottle of cognac.

Since this cake didn't have the sealant-and-spackle cladding of marzipan and royal icing, it also required refrigeration to "keep it calm". My car didn't even have air conditioning, so in transit the cake got quite, er, excitable.

How excitable, we soon found out.

When Annie's stable manager sauntered over and popped the lid, expecting to find some nice Quality Street choccies, she was instead hit in the face by a near-visible cloud of booze vapour (a gin-ie, perhaps, even though no gin was involved) and reeled back with a cry of "Jaysuz, does yer mother own a feckin' distillery?"

Had she been smoking one of her habitual thin roll-ups at the time, our family fable might have been proved true after all...

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Cathedral of Nimes, France.

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It's 1183, and Arthur being the tween menace that he was thought it would be a fantastic idea to have the whole family at Christmas Court. Shall they hang the holly or each other?

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gothic quarter // barcelona, spain // january 2024 // ©

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Street scene in Bizerte, Tunisia

French vintage postcard

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Old street lamps, Carcassonne by sir20