L’Etoile du Nord: Minneapolis

Post #2 of this Minnesota series…

Route 66: Flagstaff, AZ

Here we go again… back on Route 66. First stop: Flagstaff.

BART who?

For those who don’t live in the Bay Area, you’ll most likely think of Bart Simpson. For the rest of us, it’s a main public transit service connecting mainly the East Bay to San Francisco and the Peninsula.

Weekly photo challenge: eerie

This is my fourth participation in the Weekly photo challenge. This week’s theme is eerie.

Switzerland part II: Gruyères

Even if you are an American and know nothing about Europe (it’s not an insult. It just happens a lot), you might recognize this place’s name…From the supermarket…maybe….yeah? Got it?

Liège: Gare des Guillemins

It’s hard to believe the train station shown below, Gare des Guillemins, was first built in 1842. Well, that might just be because this train station was recently renovated (2009) into a state-of-the-art facility. In fact, it might just be the most modern train station in Belgium. It took about 10 years to renovate and build it. The architecture is so unique that people travel to this station just to take pictures.

Antwerpen: bling bling?

There is much more to Antwerp than diamonds, but I guess that’s a big thing. Other than that, it’s got a very nice zoo, great architecture, an amazing train station,…,

Train wreck…wrecked trains

This is an UrbEx post. Again, we ended up taking photos of trains, but it seems to be quite popular among UrbEx photographers. It turned out to be easy ’cause the guys in charge of renovating the trains got sort of mad at us for not asking them prior to taking pictures.

URBEX: old train depot

I went to an old train (locomotive) depot near Charleroi, Belgium twice. I got really lucky the first time around, in December 2012, because all the locomotives were still there.