This is literally what I thought when I saw this picture. The sentence makes sense for a French speaker; the English version would be: not mix apples and pears, but I also found apples and oranges. Always happy to learn the usage if you want to comment on our socials. […]
Maps in the Wild
It is a bit unusual, but we found this one on LinkedIn. Chris Chambers received this armchair as a birthday gift.
Reinder spotted these globes in the window of a gift shop in Lyon. I liked the pic because of the reflection of the opposite shop “Scotch and Soda” even though I drink mine neat. Arnaud liked it because he grew up in Lyon and new the area well. A map […]
Darrell Fuhriman sent me these pics from the Salt Pub in Ilwaco, Washington. “They decorated with old nautical charts, including a lamp shade and wallpaper on the stairs and entryway. “ The stairs reference a quote by author Isak Dinesen. “The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or […]
Reinder took this pic in a neighbourhood orchard “. along the river Saône in Lyon, named after a local heroine Mere Guy” “In the 2nd arrondissement, the orchard created at Place Général Delfosse was named in honor of Mere Guy. A pioneer of the Meres de Lyon, she opened her […]
Another one from Anna Barca “From the map room in First floor in the Mitchell Library building in the State Library of Sydney. I love looking at those historical art works and think about how maps were made in “the old days” and what was then the focus of the […]
Anne L. shared these pictures last year. What could be better to celebrate Bastille Day this year? The Liberty Explosion is made with 200 stamps representing Marianne, the Symbol of the French Revolution for the Liberty, and the explosion takes the shape of the Phrygian cap. Happy Bastille Day!
Reinder spotted this atlas in a bookshop in Lyon, “saw this Asia-Australia centered atlas cover in Librairie Passages, in Lyon, France.” Centering the world map on Asia and Australia (which places the Americas to the east) reminds us thatthe adoption of the Prime Meridian through Greenwich was a choice by […]