Despite its significant wealth – Stavanger is the heart of Norway’s oil industry – there are still plenty of lovely old wooden buildings around the waterfront and the old town.
Photo: Stavanger windows
Photo: Raw hide
Close-up of an Indian rhinoceros at the Edinburgh Zoo.
Photo: Glasgow cranes
Three cranes from the BVT (BAE) shipyard in Govan in Glasgow – one of the last remaining shipyards on the River Clyde.
Photo: Bicycle on a street
Photo: Divine window
Photo: Bodleian library window
Detail of carving outside the windows of the Bodleian library, Oxford.
Photo: Oxford Indian windows
Photo: Ataranzas window, Malaga
Photo: The Cathedral of the Incarnation, Granada
The front entrance to the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Granada, Andalucía. It is claimed that this is Spain’s first Renaissance-style cathedral: the facade is by Alonso Cano.
Photo: Carved wall and window, Granada, Spain
Highly ornate decorative stonework is quite common in Granada.
Photo: Curves and lines
Photo of a full-height corner balcony window in Granada, Spain.
Photo: Albaicin steps
Cobblestone steps on the Carril de San Agustin in the Albaicín, Granada.
Photo: A sad wee face
Portrait of a squirrel monkey at the Edinburgh Zoo. While the Living Links monkey house has lots of space and lots of ropes/branches and food, there were lots of bored looking monkeys too. Mind you, if you locked a bunch of humans up they’d look bored too.
Photo: Somebody's always watching you
Black and white photo of a spray painted stencil of young boy’s head on Bristo Place, just down from the much missed Forest Cafe, Edinburgh. Did you notice the man in the doorway?
Photo: The road to enlightenment
40 George Square (previously The David Hume Tower – see this BBC article for background on why it was renamed) is part of the University of Edinburgh’s city centre campus and is located at the south-east corner of George Square.
George Square is notable for not only being the first planned square in Edinburgh, but for being the first real suburban development outside of the city’s southern wall – predating the development of Edinburgh’s New Town, which immediately eclipsed it as the ‘suburban’ destination of choice. Despite its apparent solidity, it is a rickety building – not only does it move in the wind but the wind whistles through the building in a frankly rather terrifying manner.