Streetscapes
Background
Utrecht is a small compact city and some of the streetscapes and buildings are very impressive, always retaining a sense of intimacy and informality in spite of their formal intricacy.
This fountain reminded me of the one in James's St., Dublin. This one doesn't work either, though there remains the handle of an interesting mechanism from the days when it did.
St. Catherine's Convent Museum
A halfdoor, no less
Weird adaptation of a letterbox, maybe for red letter day.
Rubbish in a class of its own. There is a vast underground storage area beneath what is visible in this photo.
The barrellorgan without which no Dutch streetscape would be complete.
What looks like a windmill and a watertower, seen from up the Dom.
This is a fierce ugly multistorey carpark. It looks like it thinks it is a museum but it's wrong.
And then you have this weird looking Schr�derhuis that everone takes a photo of.
This bridge is near the Schr�derhuis but I'm not sure if it has anything to do with it. I know these sort of tiles are very Dutch but the washroom connotations are very strong and must be a severe temptation to beersodden students returning to the residential campus late at night to relieve themselves pronto.