Sardegna 4 - Sunset

Hello again everyone !

As you may already know, this is my fourth article on my trip to Sardegna in August.

In this post, it's all about sunset ! Observing how the sun sets and admiring the stunning colours of the sky while sitting on the beach sand is so peaceful and relaxing !!

But again, please let me know what you think of the pictures on the comments section.
I took the pictures in very good quality, so open them if you want to see them full size. None of the pictures have been edited.
If you like them, you can download/save them to use them as wallpapers.

Enjoy and have a great day !

Sardegna 3 - Baia di Conte

Hello everyone !

As I have already told you in my last two articles, I'm posting the pictures I took in Sardegna during August.

This is the third article, and there are still many more coming up soon !!!
In this one, I'm going to show you pictures taken in the beautiful di Conte Bay (Baia di Conte). It's a lovely little bay in the north of the island, with very calm and cristalline waters and perfectly white sand. The perfect place to relax on the sea side !
Baia di Conte is definitely one of my favorites parts of the island.

Please let me know what you think of the pictures on the comments section.
I took the pictures in very good quality, so open them if you want to see them full size. None of the pictures have been edited.
If you like them, you can download/save them to use them as wallpapers.
Enjoy and have a great day !

In this last picture, you can even see some stars in the sky ! :)

Sardegna 2 - Grotta di Nettuno

Hello everyone  !

As I told you in my last post, I've been to Sardegna and visited many different places.
This is the second article about this great island and shows pictures of Neptune's Grotto (in Italian Grotta di Nettuno). At the end of it, I give you my personal opinion.

I took the pictures in very good quality, so open them if you want to see them full size. None of the pictures have been edited.
If you like them, you can download/save them to use them as wallpapers.Please let me know what you think of the pictures on the comments section below.

Enjoy !

Here is a little bit if information about the cave :

Neptune's Grotto is a stalactite cave neat the town of Alghero, discovered by local fishermen in the 18th century and named after the Roman god of the sea, Neptune.

The entrance to the cave lies only around a metre above the sea level at the foot of the 110-metre-high Capo Caccia cliffs and the cave can therefore only be visited when the waters below are calm. To reach the entrance of the cave, one has to go down a 654-step stairway ! But the problem is that once you've visited the inside of the cave, you have to go up all the stairs and you end up tired, especially if it's a very hot day.

Inside are passages of lit stalactite and stalagmite formations, and a 120-metre-long saltwater lake, which is at sea level. Visitors have guided tours inside the cave that last approximately half an hour.

One can also enter the cave via a short boat trip from the port of Alghero.

My personal opinion :

Visiting the cave is really interesting if you haven't seen any other cave before, because it's quite impressive ! However, in August, there were too many tourists (not really a suprise haha). Another point is that you have to pay 13 € per person, so maybe if you're not very interested, you won't want to visit.

Have a great day !

Sardegna 1 - The Dune

Hello everyone !

During August I have been to Sardegna (in Italy), where I have visited many different places. It was a kind of a long road-trip around this huge island.
I'll be posting a lot of articles about Sardegna in the next days, so don't forget to check them out !!

For a start, I have selected these pictures taken in a huge sand dune in the west of the island in a small locality called Torre dei Corsari.
The dune is so high, so extense and with so little amount of vegetation that it makes you feel like you're in a desert. The dune is located next to a wonderful beach with really thin golden sand and lots of waves.

I took the pictures in very good quality, so open them if you want to see them full size. None of the pictures have been edited.
If you like them, you can download/save them to use them as wallpapers.
Please let me know what you think of the pictures in the comments section below !

Enjoy and have a great day !

Have you visited Sardegna ? Did you like it ?

Bruxelles - Brussel

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Today a short post with some pictures I took in Brussels.

The first and second ones have been taken in the European Quarter. The third one is Brussels Town Hall, located in the famous Grand Place. And finally, the fourth one is well-known sculpture Manneken Pis.

Hope you're all having a great weekend :-)

Rotterdam

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Today I'm showing you another place I visited in the Netherlands : Rotterdam.
Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands and has one of the largest ports in the world : the port is the third busiest port in the world (after Singapore and Shanghai). It is also a very old port since it has been used for 7 centuries !

This is a beautiful picture I found of Erasmusbrug (Erasmus Bridge). This cable-stayed bridge is more than 800 meters long. One part of it is a bascule bridge that opens for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in Europe. Erasmusbrug is sometimes used for some events.
You can see the bascule bridge open in the next two pictures I took myself.

And here you can see the old part of the port :

During World War II, the German army invaded the Netherlands in 1940. The city of Rotterdam was bombed and the heart of the city was almost completely destroyed. Nevertheless, the City Hall survived the bombing.

Sculptor Ossip Zadkine later captured the bombing with his statue De Verwoeste Stad (The Destroyed City) which you can see below.

After the war, most buildings had to be rebuilt and that is the reason why Rotterdam has such a mixture of old and modern architecture, such as  the Kubuswoningen (the cube houses).

And of course, the bronze statue of Erasmus of Rotterdam :

You can also see my other posts:
Den Haag
Utrecht
Zaanstreek
Kinderdijk
Gouda

I hope you're all having a great day :-)