grindle (@grindle)
Traveller. Here and There. Following the lens. Technophobe. Sometimes straight often twisted.
Turkmenistan here I come, or rather here I went.
Turkmenistan, a difficult country to get into, a stand alone visit, as when I did the other 4 Stans, this was not an option, politics and all that. Getting a visa was a bugger, and worked out quite...
The Peel Mortuary Chapel . Overton.
Built and consecrated in 1872 on a gentle rise on the banks of the River dee, Overton, Wrexham, with views across open farmland and the distant Berwyn Hills, a quiet peaceful place to live through ...
Under Baltic skies. Tripping from Tallinn to Vilnius. April 2025
A 2025 sixteen day trip an enjoyable trip through the Baltics, but it was fucking cold, wet and I was stuck with people who I am glad I shall never meet agin ever. Weather I can deal with wankers I...
Savičiaus Špunka. Vilnius.
So it was beer o'clock, which in all honesty can be anytime! I need refreshment, alas the bar didn't open until 5pm, so it was a case of hanging around on a street corner for awhile...(im)patiently...
"I see dead people" "Where?" "Here" Panteón de San Fernando. CDMX . October 22
This is a cross post of @grindle/i-see-dead-people-where-here-panteon-de-san-fernando-cdmx--october-22 by @grindle. x
The Jewish Graveyard, Akhaltsikhe. Georgia September 22
This is a cross post of @grindle/the-jewish-graveyard-akhaltsikhe-georgia-september-22 by @grindle. x
Travelling, getting educated, Vilnius University
Isn't that what a tasty traveller as opposed to a tacky tourist does? Learn stuff? One is never too old to immerse oneself in subjects of passion (yeah yeah that too, stop tittering and just behave...
Vilnius.The church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Apostle and Evangelist. Hedging your bets on imaginary friends .
The church was built in the 13th century, reconstructed in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the Soviet times the church was was confiscated from the Jesuit order and closed down and severely damaged...
Paint on walls: The Republic of Užupis
Some fantastic art on the streets of the Republic of Uzopio Lithuania. The Republic has its own written constitution, whilst you admire the wonderful paint on walls here are a few of the 38 article...
21. “Everyone has the right to appreciate their unimportance.”
Welcome to the Republic of Užupis, a self-proclaimed, bohemian "republic" within Vilnius. What started on April Fool's day in 1997 by a group of artists as an elaborate joke, is still on going near...
Dialogue with the Cemetery. #monomad challenge. (En/Ua)
This is a cross post of @nadin-zakrevska/dialogue-with-the-cemetery-monomad by @grindle. awesome
Kryžių Kalnas. Lithuania. Mono with an incey wincey tiny bit of bit of colour!
Soak up the atmosphere as you wind your way up the hill, through an avenue of huge and architecturally magnificent crosses as well as spying smaller more discreet bits and pieces of religious parap...
Raganų Kalnas. Lithuania.
Raganų Kalnas, the Hill of Witches, can be found in a scenic Fir Valley on the Curonian Spit, near the town of Juodkrantė. It has always been a place shrouded in folklore; in the 19th century, know...
In the asylum. MOMA Vilnius.
The creator, Jovita Aukštikalnytė-Varkulevičienė has since the turn of the century been volunteering in a psychiatric hospital, giving painting classes to patients and creating a series of sensitiv...
Kryžių Kalnas. Lithuania
This is a place I have wanted to visit for years; after seeing a programme about it on the telly. I could have stayed here for hours it just struck a nerve, it was so atmospheric. It was just a sha...