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Early morning in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. It was still cold, but promised to be a nice day. The Dutch LOVE their coffee. Drinking a cup of coffee with someone dear is a great national past time. As a consequence, Holland is full of cafes and coffee shops. This is one with an outside patio where you can sit and watch the world go by.

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This front door is from Scotland. The small fishing village of Footdee can be found at the mouth of Aberdeen (Scotland) harbour. Footdee is locally pronounced as “fittie”. It is a collection of old cottages originaly housed by fishermen and their families. Walking around this area, which is only two streets lined with picturesque cottages, it is not hard to imagine how it must have once been.

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This door is found in the town of Sofala, located approximately 250km north-west of Sydney, New South Wales. It lies along the Turon river and dates back to 1851 when gold was found at Summerhill Creek. There are still people living in Sofala, but not many and the town has a number of these houses and shacks that have almost fallen down.

Another relic in Sofala. Note the greeting above the door. The “Welcome Stranger” is also the name given to the largest gold nugget in the world (look it up) which was found in Australia in 1869. It weighed 3523.5 troy ounces.

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This one of the most picturesque places I’ve ever been. The town of Ouro Preto, meaning Black Gold, is a town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a former colonial mining town located in the Serra do Espinhaço mountains.

Ouro Preto has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its outstanding Baroque architecture. This is an extremely picturesque place with small, hilly, streets and houses with wrought iron hand rails and decorative trimmings. This front door (and windows) is a very typical one.

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If you look closely at this building, you’ll see that nothing is plumb! Many of these building date back to the 1600s so it is perhaps no surprise that things have settled here and there!

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I really liked the reflections in these windows.

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OK, this isn’t a front door. It’s a detail of the Sint Jan cathedral in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. I liked the symmetry here and the detail of the windows.

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The King – that’s the name of this whiskey specialist. I’ve been inside, great selection!

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The town is Den Bosch, in the Netherlands. All stores in this street have a name. This one is called “De Gulden Engel” which means “The Gilded Angel”.

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