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U is for … Up or Under
How often do you look up?
Up at trees, at statues, sculptures, architecture. Not just looking from a distance.
Statue of Liberty, New York
St Pancras Station, London
Are you aware of the features above when you walk under a bridge?
In Greenwich, London, it is possible to walk underneath the historical “tea clipper” ship
The Cutty Sark. It is a fascinating and unusual perspective after touring the upper decks.
How often are you aware of the small details under your feet?
In Maastricht, Netherlands, we noticed small brass cobblestone sized plaques on the pavement. They are memorials to victims of the Holocaust, called “stolpersteine” in German and “struikelstenen” in Dutch. This is an ongoing venture with over 50,000 such plaques laid in 20 countries in Europe, making it the world’s largest memorial project.
The plaques simply state … Here Lived … Born … Murdered …
RuthsArc 
What a nice collection of photos showing different perspectives. The Holocaust memorial plaques are quite striking. It must be emotional to see a lot of them together, to try to grasp the scale of what happened…
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Thanks Cynthia. The little plaques certainly make you stop and think, when there are several outside one house. When you see something physical showing that a whole family was lost.
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Yes I noticed the three in your photo seemed to have the same last name. Thanks for sharing your photos.
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Great serie of photos. I would love to walk under Cutty Sark and I do try to remember to look up, but forget it sometimes. It is easier rememberd inn nature than in the city.
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I agree that it is easier to look up in nature. Perhaps that is because we are more hurried in the town or city.
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I guess so and that we seem a bit akward doing that in that enviroment.
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You beat me to it… I only managed up! That last photo is especially special.
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I wondered about including the Giant’s Causeway as under, but it didn’t quite gel. A fascinating place that we visited eighteen months ago.
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Tell you what… G for Giant’s C next year? 😉
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Perhaps.
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I looked up today as 7 planes flew over in formation. They were single prop, so quite slow. I immediately almost fell over as I suffer from vertigo. I waited until they got to a more respectable angle and checked them out properly. Your ‘between the buildings’ pic makes me look queasy just looking at it .
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Oh Mick, you made my laugh out loud. Don’t fall over. Perhaps you shouldn’t look up.
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I recognise a good few of those! I like to look up in my own city and recently bought a book called Look Up Glasgow. I thought I was quite observant, but there are many features I’ve missed and will need to seek out.
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Sounds like a good book. I loved the Kelpies and we are able to go inside. We drove back after dark to see them lit up.
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Yes, we went inside too but I haven’t been at night yet.
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Great take on “U” Ruth. Those photos looking up are so good. “Struikelstene” means stumbling stones (Dutch is very similar to Afrikaans). It’s a poignant way to remember the lives lost.
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Thanks Christina, for comment on my photos and for translation to stumbling stones. Very poignant yet simple memorial.
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It’s always interesting to see something from a different perspective – both literally and figuratively.
I didn’t know about those little brass plaques. They’re very sobering. So many people …
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Very sobering and sometimes whole families.
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… as I noticed from the names on the plaques in your photo 😦
Now that I think about it, the name de Vries is very familiar – I wonder how common the name is. It seems to me I’ve encountered it in my mother’s family tree. I’ll have to go back and take a look.
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Oh.
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