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Paternoster is known for its seafood, especially its lobster, and its white-washed fishermen’s cottages. Located on the West Coast, 15 km north-west of Vredenburg and 145 km north of Cape Town, at Cape Columbine the village has a population of around 1,900.

One of the oldest fishing villages in South Africa, it a stronghold of Cape Coloured culture, and especially Coloured cuisine, and is increasingly marketed as such by South African tourism authorities. At under two hours’ drive from central Cape Town, this once impoverished community is now being gentrified by weekenders and retirees, with upmarket new restaurants opening, and becoming rather ‘larnie’, as South Africans put it.

The origin of the name remains unknown. Many people believe that the name, which means ‘Our Father’ in Latin, refers to prayers said by Catholic Portuguese seamen when they became shipwrecked. It appears as St. Martins Paternoster on an old map of Pieter Mortier so the name may be derived from Paternoster Row in the City of London which is adjacent to St. Martins Court. Other people believe it refers to the beads that the Khoi tribe wore that were called Paternosters.

The climate is mostly known for its infrequent rainfall, dry countryside and high offshore winds. The area receives most of its rainfall during winter and has a Mediterranean climate. This photo was taken on a baking-hot late Summer January day when the mercury reached 37C!

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

Paternoster is known for its seafood, especially its lobster, and its white-washed fishermen’s cottages. Located on the West Coast, 15 km north-west of Vredenburg and 145 km north of Cape Town, at Cape Columbine the village has a population of around 1,900.

One of the oldest fishing villages in South Africa, it a stronghold of Cape Coloured culture, and especially Coloured cuisine, and is increasingly marketed as such by South African tourism authorities. At under two hours’ drive from central Cape Town, this once impoverished community is now being gentrified by weekenders and retirees, with upmarket new restaurants opening, and becoming rather ‘larnie’, as South Africans put it.

The origin of the name remains unknown. Many people believe that the name, which means ‘Our Father’ in Latin, refers to prayers said by Catholic Portuguese seamen when they became shipwrecked. It appears as St. Martins Paternoster on an old map of Pieter Mortier so the name may be derived from Paternoster Row in the City of London which is adjacent to St. Martins Court. Other people believe it refers to the beads that the Khoi tribe wore that were called Paternosters.

The climate is mostly known for its infrequent rainfall, dry countryside and high offshore winds. The area receives most of its rainfall during winter and has a Mediterranean climate. This photo was taken on a baking-hot late Summer January day when the mercury reached 37C!

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

The beach at Paternoster; the distinct turquoise and blue tin roofs of St Augustine's Anglican Church and its primary school overlooks the scene on the left-hand side.

Paternoster is known for its seafood, especially its lobster, and its white-washed fishermen’s cottages. Located on the West Coast, 15 km north-west of Vredenburg and 145 km north of Cape Town, at Cape Columbine the village has a population of around 1,900.

One of the oldest fishing villages in South Africa, it a stronghold of Cape Coloured culture, and especially Coloured cuisine, and is increasingly marketed as such by South African tourism authorities. At under two hours’ drive from central Cape Town, this once impoverished community is now being gentrified by weekenders and retirees, with upmarket new restaurants opening, and becoming rather ‘larnie’, as South Africans put it.

The origin of the name remains unknown. Many people believe that the name, which means ‘Our Father’ in Latin, refers to prayers said by Catholic Portuguese seamen when they became shipwrecked. It appears as St. Martins Paternoster on an old map of Pieter Mortier so the name may be derived from Paternoster Row in the City of London which is adjacent to St. Martins Court. Other people believe it refers to the beads that the Khoi tribe wore that were called Paternosters.

The climate is mostly known for its infrequent rainfall, dry countryside and high offshore winds. The area receives most of its rainfall during winter and has a Mediterranean climate. This photo was taken on a baking-hot late Summer January day when the mercury reached 37C!

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

Paternoster is known for its seafood, especially its lobster, and its white-washed fishermen’s cottages. Located on the West Coast, 15 km north-west of Vredenburg and 145 km north of Cape Town, at Cape Columbine the village has a population of around 1,900.

One of the oldest fishing villages in South Africa, it a stronghold of Cape Coloured culture, and especially Coloured cuisine, and is increasingly marketed as such by South African tourism authorities. At under two hours’ drive from central Cape Town, this once impoverished community is now being gentrified by weekenders and retirees, with upmarket new restaurants opening, and becoming rather ‘larnie’, as South Africans put it.

The origin of the name remains unknown. Many people believe that the name, which means ‘Our Father’ in Latin, refers to prayers said by Catholic Portuguese seamen when they became shipwrecked. It appears as St. Martins Paternoster on an old map of Pieter Mortier so the name may be derived from Paternoster Row in the City of London which is adjacent to St. Martins Court. Other people believe it refers to the beads that the Khoi tribe wore that were called Paternosters.

The climate is mostly known for its infrequent rainfall, dry countryside and high offshore winds. The area receives most of its rainfall during winter and has a Mediterranean climate. This photo was taken on a baking-hot late Summer January day when the mercury reached 37C!

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

Paternoster is known for its seafood, especially its lobster, and its white-washed fishermen’s cottages. Located on the West Coast, 15 km north-west of Vredenburg and 145 km north of Cape Town, at Cape Columbine the village has a population of around 1,900.

One of the oldest fishing villages in South Africa, it a stronghold of Cape Coloured culture, and especially Coloured cuisine, and is increasingly marketed as such by South African tourism authorities. At under two hours’ drive from central Cape Town, this once impoverished community is now being gentrified by weekenders and retirees, with upmarket new restaurants opening, and becoming rather ‘larnie’, as South Africans put it.

The origin of the name remains unknown. Many people believe that the name, which means ‘Our Father’ in Latin, refers to prayers said by Catholic Portuguese seamen when they became shipwrecked. It appears as St. Martins Paternoster on an old map of Pieter Mortier so the name may be derived from Paternoster Row in the City of London which is adjacent to St. Martins Court. Other people believe it refers to the beads that the Khoi tribe wore that were called Paternosters.

The climate is mostly known for its infrequent rainfall, dry countryside and high offshore winds. The area receives most of its rainfall during winter and has a Mediterranean climate. This photo was taken on a baking-hot late Summer January day when the mercury reached 37C!

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

Paternoster is known for its seafood, especially its lobster, and its white-washed fishermen’s cottages. Located on the West Coast, 15 km north-west of Vredenburg and 145 km north of Cape Town, at Cape Columbine the village has a population of around 1,900.

One of the oldest fishing villages in South Africa, it a stronghold of Cape Coloured culture, and especially Coloured cuisine, and is increasingly marketed as such by South African tourism authorities. At under two hours’ drive from central Cape Town, this once impoverished community is now being gentrified by weekenders and retirees, with upmarket new restaurants opening, and becoming rather ‘larnie’, as South Africans put it.

The origin of the name remains unknown. Many people believe that the name, which means ‘Our Father’ in Latin, refers to prayers said by Catholic Portuguese seamen when they became shipwrecked. It appears as St. Martins Paternoster on an old map of Pieter Mortier so the name may be derived from Paternoster Row in the City of London which is adjacent to St. Martins Court. Other people believe it refers to the beads that the Khoi tribe wore that were called Paternosters.

The climate is mostly known for its infrequent rainfall, dry countryside and high offshore winds. The area receives most of its rainfall during winter and has a Mediterranean climate. This photo was taken on a baking-hot late Summer January day when the mercury reached 37C!

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

The beautiful coastal views of Hermanus (population 5,800), a popular coastal resort town 125 km east of Cape Town—very popular with Cape Town weekenders and retirees.

ДОМИК ЧЕХОВА В ГУРЗУФЕ (ЭТЮД С НАТУРЫ)

«Я купил кусочек берега с купаньем и Пушкинской скалой около пристани и парка в Гурзуфе. Принадлежит нам теперь целая бухточка, в которой может стоять лодка», — писал Антон Павлович Чехов в письме своей сестре Марии по поводу покупки дачи в 1900 году. В отличие от ялтинского дома Чехова, мгновенно ставшего местом паломничества многочисленных гостей, дача в Гурзуфе была местом уединения и покоя. О ней знали только члены семьи. В этом живописном уголке крымских субтропиков, подальше от шумной Ялты, Чехова посещало вдохновение. Именно здесь он писал, среди прочего, драму «Три сестры».

«I have bought a piece of coast with bathing and the Pushkin Rock near the marina and the park in Gurzuf. We now own a whole bay, large enough for a boat to anchor…» — wrote the gear Russian author Anton Chekhov in a letter to his sister Maria, referring to his purchase of a dacha house in 1900. Unlike Chekhov’s house in Yalta, which quickly turned into a popular visiting spot, the dacha in Gurzuf was a place of piece and seclusion. Only his family knew about it and stayed there. This picturesque Crimean subtropical paradise, away from the thronging resort town of Yalta, gave Chekhov the inspiration he needed. This is where he worked on, among other things, his play «Three Sisters».

Date: 11.01.2025.

Материалы: чёрная тушь, соус, масляная пастель, акриловые белила, цв. карандаши, крафт-бумага, 30x41 см.

Materials: India ink, Russian sauce pastels, oil pastels, white acrylic, colored pencils on Kraft paper, 30x41 cm.

WIP: vk.com/wall-215774806_2120

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurzuf

View across the Kollafjörður, the fjord off Faxaflói Bay on which Reykjavíók sits. The Haki, a Reykjavik tugboat, is motoring through the harbour. The distant view is to the Skarðsheiði mountain range, about 38 km or 24 miles away. Heidahorn (1054 m above seal level), the pyramidal shaped mountain on the left, is the highest peak in it.

View across the Kollafjörður, the fjord off Faxaflói Bay on which Reykjavíók sits. The distant view is to the Skarðsheiði mountain range, about 38 km or 24 miles away. Heidahorn (1054 m above seal level), the pyramidal shaped mountain on the left, is the highest peak in it.

View across the Kollafjörður, the fjord off Faxaflói Bay on which Reykjavíók sits. The distant view is to the Esja mountain range, about 17 km or 11 miles away, which rises to a height of 914 metres asl.

Burial Island lies just east of the easternmost point of the Irish mainland, Burr Point, Co. Down (54° 29' N 5° 26' W), from which this photo was shot.

Nobody is sure from where the name derives. Local stories say the name comes from a Danish burial reputed to have taken place on the island. The name might also derive from the Irish for cormorant, na broighill, or from the pronunciation of “Burr Isle”. The island is inhabited only by terns.

Rocks on the beach in soft late afternoon midwinter light at Ireland's easternmost point - Burr Point, Co. Down.

The last daylight of 2023 at the easternmost point on the Irish mainland—Burr Point, Ballyhalbert, Co. Down.

The last daylight of 2023 at the easternmost point on the Irish mainland—Burr Point, Ballyhalbert, Co. Down.

Кекуры - так на Чукотке называют каменные останцы. Чукотские кекуры образовались в результате долгого выветривания породы.

Кекуры - так на Чукотке называют каменные останцы. Чукотские кекуры образовались в результате долгого выветривания породы.

Machu Pichu

Machu Pichu

Machu Pichu