Hi there dear readers, deskers and everybody new.
It’s Wednesday; the day I join the “What’s On My Workdesk Wednesday” tribe over at Stamping ground and post a picture of my desk to show you what I’m up to.
I took the desk-photo this morning but the other photo’s were made last week – remember I promised you I would take you for another walk through town? I did, and made photos along the way to show you another part of this beautiful town where I live.
So if you are here just to see my work desk and don’t feel like ‘walking’ with me, you can skip the picture-overload part of this post and go straight to the comment-field (’cause I love it when you leave me a comment!)
Here is today’s desk photo.
And now, let’s go for a walk through town: here’s Middelburg seen from above (photo from www.aerophotostock.com)
I marked the route we walked. The little numbers (can you find them? You might wanna enlarge the photo…) refer to the places I took a photo.
1. Little gate
I live in a back alley of the city centre and when I step out of my front door, I can choose all kinds of directions to start my walk. This time I choose to go through this little gate…. it looks very dark & ‘going nowhere’ so I cropped the photo and brightened it for you… see there’s an alley on the other side of it?
2. Isabellagang
Going through the little gate (or should I say “under path”?) I end up in this little alley “Isabella passage.” I choose not to go right but took a photo to show you what’s there… isn’t this the sweetest little alley?
3. Only a few minutes walk takes me to this little spot.
I don’t even know what it is exactly… a garden? A very little park? A passage from one street to another? I like this quiet little spot surrounded by walls of the the tall historical houses.
4. Stairs
At the end of the little park lies a street, there were you can see the white banister. That street is on another level so at the end you have to climb these stairs. Standing on the stairs, I took a photo of the white house/wall to the right.
5. Poems on the wall
Walking through Middelburg you will find poems everywhere, written (stencilled) on the walls. One can buy a booklet in the bookstore with a little map/route and info about all the poems that can be found in town. My neighbourhood has a few poems on walls too, in Dutch of course – but my Dutch readers may find it nice to read…
6. Lady overlooking the street
I am a member of Middelburg’s Facebook group and someone in the group pointed out this statue that can be found only a few streets away from me. I’d never seen her ’cause I rarely visit that back-street, but I went looking for this statue now and look… I found her!
7. Poseidon
Another house with a poem…
8. Small marina and canals
I just love the canals and the big houses that stand on the quays… I took 3 photos to show you the sight and puzzled them together… and can you see “Tall John” sticking out above the houses.
9. I also walked along the “Bastion” (the ‘star’ in the air view photo, see this post)
… and there’s my favorite building on the horizon: The Eastern Church.
10. This is the “Koepoort” (‘cow-gate’)
and that’s the place I abandon the Bastion to walk back home
11. Poem on the wall
I’m almost home when I come across this poem on another wall… I see/read this one often. The language is kind of ‘older Dutch’ and is about a man and a woman sitting on the dunes. I love especially the last lines. Translating is difficult and doesn’t do justice to the poetic feel of the lines, but it says something like: “When, and where was it* that I was this high and silent with only you?” (* how long ago was it)
I hope you enjoyed this – already fourth – walk with me.
You can find the former walks through Middelburg here:
Hi Marit, love going walkabout with you, so much to see. Nice tidy desk too. Wishing you a lovely creative week and a happy woyww, Angela x16x
Hi Maarit, you’ve wrong link on your blog to Julia’s pos, I just commented on Nov post, it puzzled me it was autumn, lovley images of your pretty town. So different.
Hugs Shaz in Oz.x
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I really enjoyed this walk around Middelburg with you – what a wonderful town, so interesting. I love walking around the back streets and alleys of places, they’re so much better than the main streets. I can see why you love living there Marit, it;s very you!!
Hugs LLJ 6 xxx
It was a busy day for me yesterday so I’m just playing catch up with visiting my blogging friends. The Stick Man outfit was completed and looked really lovely but…..more about that on my Friday blog post. 🙂
I really enjoyed my walk with you today. We love Holland and have several really good friends living there.
Hugs,
Annie x #9
Great walk Marit. Love the poems on the houses. The new journal layout looks fabulous. The colours on the left hand page are scrumptious. Happy WOYWW. Sarah #3
Well I didn’t even remember the November post, so I’ve enjoyed two walks! I really did enjoy this newer one, that statue of the girl just look8ng over the street, isn’t that lovely. I think I’m a bit in love with the Bastion too, it’s fascinating shape must be unique, surely? I like the poems on the wall, Mr Dunnit is fascinated by the metalwork for beams and things, it seems that even architecture and engineering differs from country to country. Aren’t we interesting human beings!
come back for the “proper” walk (although the other one was great to re-visit, even though i didn’t realise it was a repeat, shows how well I looked at the date!) and that statue of the person one the top of the wall, gazing out, is my favourite! very soulful. Helen #4 (but you know that, lol)
Hi Marit. A great walk through the town. Always exciting to see where people live. Loved the statue on the wall – really novel and different.
Take care. God bless.
Margaret #2