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Colors of Europe and Africa

1. Stretching from Italy to France is the small Italian region of Liguria. Like much of the rest of Italian costal towns village balance precariously on the hillsides by the side of the sea. The Italian Riviera is a continuous long line of sandy beaches and coves running for 340 km across the Ligurian Sea. The image shown here is one of the suburbs of the capital Genoa.

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2. The decorative hand painted pottery of Morocco is often influenced by Islamic culture, which is evident in the detailed design. The patterns are dependent on where the wares are produced, as the geometric designs are often passed down through the generations. Some Berber tribes in the north of the country have been painting the same patterns for over 200 years.

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3. Visitors to these leather dyeing vats in Fez, Morocco often report a very distinct smell, that of animal flesh and ammonia. Nice. That’s the only thing with photographs; you can’t always get the full experience of a place. Maybe one day someone will invent the scratch ’n’ sniff photo. But then again, maybe it’s a good thing we can’t always smell what we see in an image.

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4. Not your usual iconic image of Africa, that’s for sure. These beach huts at St James, Cape Town were snapped just after sunrise; their colors all the more vibrant with the blue sky behind.

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5. An Egyptian market in Aswan sells spices by the bucket load. Vibrant earthy tones line the stalls, filling the air with hungry aromas, making it difficult to walk through without thinking of where the next meal is coming from. The lively market town of Aswan is located not far from the mouth of the Nile and is one of the driest inhabited places on Earth. It is also a busy tourist center as most the of Nile cruises start or finish here, and is the main stop-off point for those wanting to visit one of the most impressive temples in the country – Abu Simbel.

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6. It seems the Italians never seem to take a break from their seductive duties. This wonderful image was taken on one of the beaches. The writing in the love heart on the wall tells everyone the seat is a ‘bench of love’.

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7. These bright yellow buildings are in Uppsala, the four largest city in Sweden. Many of the buildings are brightly painted to stand out against an often grey sky with the most dominant feature on the skyline being the Domkyrka (Uppsala Cathedral), which is the largest Cathedral in the whole of Scandinavia, standing at 118.70 m high.

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8. Markets the world over are awash with color, mostly from food grown on this good earth. This image of Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria, or simply La Boqueria, in Barcelona is always stacked with colorful sumptuous fruit and veg. It sits just off the famous Rambla and dates back to at least 1217. It’s been a bustling market place ever since, and highly recommended for excellent traditional tapas.

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9. Colorful washing hangs outside a traditional painted house in Porto, Portugal’s second largest city. An ancient network of passages and cobbled, winding streets lend to the old charm of the city and make it very popular for short breaks within Europe. Often referred to as the capital of the north, Porto has a long-standing but good-natured rivalry with the country’s capital, Lisbon.

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10. “When it’s spring again, I’ll bring again, tulips from Amsterdam, when a heart that’s true, I’ll give to you, tulips from Amsterdam.” Only that old crooner Max Bygraves could say it with flowers. Holland is well known for fields of tulips, so it’s not surprising that market stalls are lined with them, and wooden ones are sold so they can last forever.

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11. Residents of this colourful apartment block in Bilbao can choose what color they would like their apartment to be, although we’re only going by what we’ve been able to find on the net, so if anyone lives there, let us know more about it. It would certainly brighten up a dull day.

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12. If there’s one thing that is associated with British seaside resorts, it’s candied rock. It’s almost compulsory to buy a stick and see how long you manage to keep your teeth, that and trying out one of the rides at the inevitable amusement park teetering on the brink of a decaying pier. What fun!

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