Annals of the dead (5)..... The forgotten dead

This cemetery near Pembroke, Wales, is slowly recovered by nature

Why are these people forgotten?

annals of transportation (7).... Dartmouth lower ferry

The River Dart lower ferry connects Kingswear Station with Dartmouth It is one of three ferries crossing the Dart estuary close to DartmouthThere are records of ferry services at this point of as early as 1365

The ferry is a floating platform which is connected to a tug boat.

At each departure from the slipway, the tugboat has to disconnect and turn around

All the traffic has to pass the narrow streets of Kingswear and Dartmouth before reaching the ferry.
The higher ferry was recently replaced by a new, efficient boat. The old paddler rusts at its mooring upriver

A third ferry takes pedestrians to the other side

Bridges

Arm of a lifting bridge, delft, netherlands

Never trust airline food....

Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam

the benefits of green energy (3)..... moorish fridge

The mountains in the Sierra Transmuntana on the Spanish Island of Mallorca are full of these former snow-houses built by the moors. They were used to collect snow, compress it and afterwards bring it down to be used for cooling. Of course they were abandoned long before these mountains ran out of sufficient amounts of snow....

Annals of the dead (4).... Johannisfriedhof Dresden

Unlike the majority of other German cemeteries, the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden boasts of a lot of impressive grave monuments which are testimonies of the fact that this once was one of Germany's richest cities
A sculpturer's grave...
The images of respectable dead men are so serious that they seem to contradict the statements of love and affection left by the descendants
But the most remarkable is this grave, which actually features the relief of a half-naked woman
And I discovered that there actually is a kind of cemetery tourism of people travelling to cities to look and collect photos of graves of famous people.

Reminders of the great days of railroading (5) ..... the last Saxonian narrow gauge railroads

In 1884, the German kingdom of Saxonia started to built a network of narrow gauge railroads, that with a length of 561 km eventually connected the remote little towns to the main railroad lines
At the time of German reunification, six lines were still operating... in a state not very much different from when they were opened
Two of the remaining lines are just outside Dresden. They operate daily and can be used by regular passengers for their daily needs
Although reconstructed several times, this type of engine first was a big progress when first introduced into service in 1899....
On my trip, the engine had to stop and use its water pump to extinguish a bush fire caused by an earlier train. If it is a nice day and you prefer to travel on the open platform of the coaches, you will find back the cinders all over you - and in your eyes if you did not watch out.
Working a steam engine is hard, dirty work in a hot, narrow cabin. Nevertheless, on the old pictures you will never find an engineer not wearing a white shirt and tie!
First the coal has to be shovelled onto the bunker of the engine, and later another time onto the fire.... Bigger engines are loaded by crane
After work the ordeal is not finished: the ashes have to be removed, the many moving parts have to be oiled, the fire has to be rearranged. Imagine the air in those times when in some places 100 of these engines were in one depot....