harbours - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

December 23, 2021 Street Scenes

Terminal station

“Und unstet wehn und irren, dem Chaos gleich,
Dem gärenden Geschlechte die Wünsche nach,
Und wild ist und verzagt und kalt von
Sorgen das Leben der Armen immer.”

(F. Hölderlin)
Amsterdam (NL)

November 25, 2021 Transport

I’m the light that’s guiding you!

“Sail on!” it says, “sail on, ye stately ships!
And with your floating bridge the ocean span;
Be mine to guard this light from all eclipse,
Be yours to bring man nearer unto man!”

(H.W. Longfellow in The lighthouse)
Vlaardingen (NL)

May 19, 2021 Culture of Industry

Onderzeebootloods

“In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines“

(The Beatles in Yellow Submarine)
Rotterdam (NL)

July 1, 2017 Culture of Industry

Fill me up!

“Fill me up
Until I overflow
I wanna run over
I wanna run over”

(Gospel Fill me up)
Jemeppe-sur-Sambre (B)

May 18, 2017 Transport

Marine Route

"Warte, warte, wilder Schiffsmann,
gleich folg' ich zum Hafen dir;
von zwei Jungfraun nehm' ich Abschied,
von Europa und von ihr."

(H. Heine from Buch der Lieder)
Châtelet (B)

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Terminal station

I’m the light that’s guiding you!

Onderzeebootloods

Fill me up!

Marine Route