It’s looking from the overpass down platforms 5 and 6 of Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Australia.
That wavy roof is over the entire station, which handles metro network traffic and is the hub for the country and interstate lines. The wavy roof keeps the rain off, but does nothing to stop the wind or the cold or the heat. But at least it doesn’t rain?
And your unseen translation exercise for today is:
A friend worked for the financiers of the winning bidder, and told me when the architects unveiled the model, folks (mostly merchant bankers, to be fair*) immediately dubbed it the boob roof.
*appropriate for literal description and as rhyming slang.
TBF, it also holds the diesel fumes in as well.
Still less dreary than say…Gara du Nord in Bucharest.
Well, crap.
I know that Bahnhof!
The scooters and the handcart…is that mud or concrete?
Salvage from Gulf of Finland.
Hey, I recognise that model of Electrolux vacuum cleaner! My family had one of those when I was a kid, in exactly that colour.
Aspens and cottonwoods in high color!
Unfortunately the Silverton-to-Ouray side was a sphincter-clenching terror ride through rain and fog.
GIANT Ukrainian flag. Pretty sure it must be at least 50ft long
ETA: the USian flag is just as big. But not unusual
Still longer than the line at the Russian military recruitment office! /s
Thanks, snorted.
100 year old ferris wheel
