βραδινός θάλαμος

Βραδινός θάλαμος με συνοδεία μεσημβρινού ποδηλάτου
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Christmas wishes from the past

A Christmas card from my distant youth, rediscovered recently ..

Forbidden City Cauldron

Καζάνι της πυράς. Απαγορευμένη Πόλη, Πεκίνο.

Pyre cauldron. Forbidden City, Beijing.

Romanov Boyar Mansion

In the vaulted dining room of the Palace of the Romanov Boyars in central Moscow, August 2014. This mansion was built by the grandfather of the first Romanov tsar - Mikhail - in the 16th century.

San Francisco vintage trams - Part 2

One more batch of fabulous vintage streetcars from all over the world in the streets of San Francisco (here is Part 1)

Σκαθάρι

Παλαίμαχο σκαθάρι στο Λαογραφικό Μουσείο του Όσλο (Νορβηγία)

Asian Hercules

Ασιατικός Ηρακλής (Εθνικό Μουσείο του Τόκυο, Ιαπωνία)

San Francisco vintage trams

 Fabulous vintage streetcars (trams) carry passengers in San Francisco. 

Check them out: http://www.streetcar.org/streetcars/

Wooden storehouses

Old wooden storehouses at the Oslo Museum of Cultural History. 
The particular pillar shape made it difficult for rodents to climb up into the storehouses and protected the stored grains. 

Old rural school

Old school at the Oslo Museum of National Culture.

This school is typical of the earliest school buildings in rural Norway: a small house consisting of one room for teaching ...

... a passageway, and a small chamber for the teacher.

This school was in use until the 1960s.