It was a long week. Although I got more photo opportunities than I thought - the ones here are merely a selection of my favourites. A lot of time was spent exploring, getting bearings and walking (my legs still hurt, honestly!). It was a worthwhile trip, even if it wasn't the most successful. A week in a beautiful, busy city is never wasted, even if you're not a city person at heart. But, I cannot deny I am a little glad to be back to the relative quiet of this town for the time being. Such a long trip requires some unwinding afterwards, I think.
Sidenote: I really should remember to disable f.lux when doing photo editing at night. Thankfully, I don't think I've managed to make any of them look much worse than they did before.
I love few things more than a day where the weather is good enough to go for a walk with my camera. Thankfully, today was such a day and, after finishing my work, I spent most of an hour wandering aimlessly from my place to the woods just north of it. Admittedly, I never intended to end up in the woods - I wandered along a main street wondering what was beyond the places I had already been, stumbled across a small pond surrounded by ducks, and walked on from there. The woods presented themselves after a few minutes of wandering and I looped back to my place.
There's something about a lone walk with a camera that makes me feel settled, and - house geek that I am - I adore looking at all the different houses along the way. From old buildings that have stood through wars and mass millennium panic, to the new builds that stand striking in their uniqueness. They all have their own stories and besonderheiten that makes the latent writer in me imagine the lives of the people who chose to build it, who chose to live there.
While I don't take too many pictures of the houses themselves - much like with people, I feel this odd sense of intruding on something private when I do turn my camera to a building - each of them burn into my mind and create a memory worth the brief pause in an otherwise busy day.
INDIGOYA
Indigoya (In-di-go-yah) is the blog of a British lady in her mid-twenties as she lives her life abroad, travels, and buys too many things to ever be the minimalist she really wants to be.