One of the many shipwrecks on the beaches of the Opal Coast. In the background seals on a sandbank and the "Phare de Walden" (lighthouse, now out of use), which marks the division between the English Channel and the North Sea. Location: beach between Calais and Gravelines.

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Bredene, morning of January 10, amazing sky (no Photoshop)

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Because of the ever-increasing high-rise buildings along the river Maas, Rotterdam is sometimes compared to Manhattan

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Church of St. John at Kaneo (13th century), North-Macedonia

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The steeple of St Michael’s Church (1440) should have stood out above all the others in Ghent, but history decided otherwise: due to lack of financial resources the 134 metre high planned "monument of triumph", has remained at a paltry 24 metres.

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