A stark contrast with last week’s Istanbul Sliding Shed Door are these Dubai Doors for Norm’s Thursday Doors.
This photo is from my archives and was taken in April, 2013 with an iPhone 4S.
Dubai Doors • Thursday Doors
Category: Thursday Doors
Istanbul Sliding Shed Door • Thursday Doors
A stark contrast with last week’s splendor is this Istanbul Sliding Shed Door for Norm‘s Thursday Doors.
While I had set my mind on photographing some more beautiful twin doors that I came across, a (self-imposed) quarantine because of a slight flu made me postpone that for another day. So I had to dig in my archives and found this decade old photo of a sliding door in Istanbul. Which was, at the time, in dire need of some TLC.
Jugendstil Door • Thursday Doors
Photographed this magnificent Jugendstil door a while back with Thursday Doors in my mind. And immediately forgot all about it. The twin green doors I posted last week however kick started my memory.
Do check out the design of the letterbox on the right. Just gorgeous!
The whole front of the house had the same splendor.
Written for Norm 2.0.
Twin Doors • Thursday Doors
After the Spanish Doors extravaganza, back to some Dutch doors, Twin Doors. This is the entry for March 5, 2020 Thursday Doors. Hosted by Norm 2.0. While two totally different sets of doors, they’re in the same street rather close to each other.
Spanish Doors • The Final • Thursday Doors
This is the final batch of Spanish Doors as entry for February 27, 2020 Thursday Doors. Hosted by Norm 2.0. Two weeks ago I posted some blue doors that I encountered in Cadaquès, Catalunia, Spain. Last week’s post was centered around the doors of Salvador Dali’s house there. Whereas this week, the remainder of interesting doors is a bit of a dog’s breakfast.
Salvador Dali’s Doors • Thursday Doors
‘Salvador Dali’s Doors’ is the entry for February 20, 2020 Thursday Doors. Hosted by Norm 2.0.
Last week I posted some blue doors that I encountered in Cadaquès, Catalunia, Spain. This week’s post is centered around the doors of Salvador Dali’s house there.
Fortunately I was able to capture these doors in the patina they’re in. I was told by the foreman of the crew doing renovations the doors would be painted blue again.
Don’t you just love this patina?
To put everything into a bit of context, here are two photos of the house.
You can safely ignore this piece as it’s only here to appease Google and the likes. But if you really want to see my last entry into Thursday Doors, you can find it here.
Spanish Doors • Thursday Doors
‘Spanish Doors’ is the entry for February 13, 2020 Thursday Doors. Hosted by Norm 2.0.
The past 10 days were spent in Cadaquès, Spain where I encountered one illustrious door after another. So not to overload this post with all the remarkable doors I found in this wonderful, ex-hippie village, here’s roughly the first third of this little paradise for door aficionados. I’ve limited this week’s entry to the blue doors that are so characteristic of Catalunia.
Hardly any door is on the same level, due to the rather rocky terrain.
So far this blue Spanish Doors episode. Next week I’ll post the 2nd batch…
You can safely ignore this piece as it’s only here to appease Google and the likes. But if you really want to see my last entry into Thursday Doors, you can find it here.
Hidden Gem • Thursday Doors
‘Hidden Gem’ is the entry for January 30, 2020 Thursday Doors. Hosted by Norm 2.0.
In downtown the Hague many, if not all who don’t know its secret, walk past this rather bland door, without wondering what the name “Rusthof” (“Retreat”) actually entails.
When you step through that door its secret is not immediately revealed. You enter a rater dark, damp and mouldy passageway leading to…
The gem that lies at the end of it…
This used to be a retreat for elderly spinsters. Wikipedia sums it up as:
‘Rusthof is one of the approximately ten charity courts in The Hague. It is located at Parkstraat 41-61, right next to the Sint-Jacobus church.
Elisabeth Groen van Prinsterer – van der Hoop, the wife of Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, founded this retreat/courtyard on 15 April 1841. She used money from her father-in-law’s legacy for this.
While the old tenants had to pay one guilder a week, for which they, apart from shelter, received meat, poultry and fuel for cooking and heating.’
To this day the houses in the Rusthof are rented out, solely to single female residents. Men are simply not allowed inside any of the houses. And that is as much of the story of this hidden gem that I could uncover. The Hague has approx. a total of 10 of these retreats for single and elderly women.
You can safely ignore this piece as it’s only here to appease Google and the likes. But if you really want to see my last entry into Thursday Doors, you can find it here.
Hotel New York Doors • Thursday Doors
‘Hotel New York Doors’ is the entry for January 23, 2020 Thursday Doors. Hosted by Norm 2.0.
Recently I spent a couple of nights at the Hotel New York in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This hotel used to be the head office of the Holland America Line. Passengers to New York were waved off and returning passengers were welcomed here.
Strangely enough, none of the entrance doors are located at the front of the building. All are located at both sides of the building.
So far for this Hotel New York Doors entry into Thursday Doors.
You can safely ignore this piece as it’s only here to appease Google and the likes. But if you really want to see my last entry into Thursday Doors, you can find it here.
Not So Welcoming Door • Thursday Doors
‘Not So Welcoming Door’ is the entry for this week’s Thursday Doors, which is hosted by Norm 2.0. To say he’s got a ‘thing’ for doors is a bit of an understatement…
The sign may say ‘Welcome!’, the look in the tenant’s says something completely different…
For my previous Thursday Doors submission, see this.