Pictograms of northern Europe

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Who needs words when the right picture will do just the trick? Just three of the many cool pictograms used all over Europe.

Hang onto your puppy!

Go, dad!

Unmistakable message

Platform 5b

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Track 5b

A passenger walks along a platform at Amsterdam Centraal railway station on a lovely Saturday morning back in August.

Glowing in the night

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Glow

This is a cool-looking commercial building in the shopping district of Helsinki.

Somewhere over the rainbow

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Somewhere over the rainbow

Not often do I get to photograph the entire arc of a rainbow. Here’s a view from the tower at Saint Olaf’s Church in Tallinn, Estonia, and that city’s ferry docks in the distance.

Time travel, thanks to wallpaper

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Welcome to the 1970s

Don’t stare at this for too long! Spotted this in Stockholm.

Morning coffee

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Morning coffee

Fjord-side caffeine in Balestrand, Norway.

Gathering place

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Senate Square

This is a neat public space in Helsinki. That beautiful building in the background is a church and all the people gathered out front were participating in some kind of art event that involved building structures with paper boxes … and tearing it all down.

Evening sailing

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Evening sailing

Some pleasure boating happening in the waters surrounding the islands of Stockholm.

Wall art

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Red hoodie

Here’s another piece of sticker art found on a wall in an older part of Copenhagen last month.

World of lines

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Tavaranvastaanotto

Cool interplay between the lines of the brick wall and the shadow of that canopy, spotted in Helsinki recently.