Bloggers are supposed to tell you about places they have been and you should go. Today our post doesn’t do that at all. Here are 6 paintings, portraits of Russian political prisoners. The look in their faces is timeless and terrible, but you cannot go and see this show. We found
Picture posts
Pictures of something that interests us, that don’t always have a postcard match.
A walk through Neolithic Normandy, near Lithaire
WW2 history is disappearing from Néville-sur-Mer
Quietly crumbling into the sea, in amongst soft dunes isolated by marshland, is the Batterie Blankenese de Néville-sur-Mer. A few miles east of Cherbourg this is not a famous WW2 heritage site, but still a poignant reminder of when Normandy was occupied by an unwelcome enemy. Then Here, from 1943 the Kreigsmarine,
A photographic record of the storm of iron & fire; Le Havre 1944
We found this emotional set of images, showing Le Havre before and after the bombing of 1944, tucked in amongst some ordinary vintage postcards at the Foire des Andaines. The photos have been carefully composed by someone who thought we should not forget, and they tell the story of Operation Astonia in ways
