Thursday Doors, 19/12/19: 2019

• Manja Maksimovič

Since Norm, our principal doorman, kindly invited us to make a compilation of our favourite doors posted in 2019 for the last Thursday Doors of this year, here is my excessive one with thirty-three of them.

.

D

o

o

o

o

o

r

s

.

For some reason, maybe you know which one, I cannot stop taking door photos. It just doesn’t get boring. I hop between my countries, Italy and Slovenia, and between various towns and cities often enough that doors and door styles don’t get repeated too much, even though I’ve been doing it for some four years or so. Every Thursday, imagine that.

In August this year I changed blogs (again). For my last Thursday Doors on my previous, coral-coloured blog I made a selection of my favourite doors posted on that blog. Instead of repeating them here, please go over there and have a look. I love them and could post all of them again today.

And then I moved over here and this is how my Thursday Doors posts look all together now:

All my Thursday Doors with one click.

But since I know that nobody has time to go through all these doors, I did that for you and selected a nice round number of 33 door photos for the year 2019 from here, Italy, and there, Slovenia, that I’d like you to see again. See how many you can remember.

I wish you happy holidays and that all the right doors open and close for you in the new year.

  • Let’s start with not one…
  • …but two ghost doors from Piran. Especially for Norm.
  • Then four door gifts. This one is by father from Štanjel.
  • Uncle went to Malta and got me this red one.
  • Sister took this one in Maribor. One that I’d be proud to take.
  • Sis brought this one from France. What on earth?
  • This is a Sicilian bistro in Rome. Yet to enter.
  • The gelato man in Orbetello. He knows that you want some.
  • This door in Milje/Muggia on the Slovenian-Italian border could be any other colour but it chose to be this. I respect that.
  • A colourful ensemble from Ljubljana.
  • A green Ljubljana door monster.
  • Its relatives in Rome’s Ostiense district. Entire building is like this. Artwork by Blu.
  • In Pitigliano shops and garages and cellars are dug in tuffa.
  • Through the gate in Sovana.
  • This beauty is from a recent post from Rome. Norm liked it.
  • See? Here is a similar one from Bolsena. I like my original caption: “Doors and nuts and door nuts.”
  • Orvieto, where I picked up the Canadians, is full of arches.
  • We also visited Pitigliano but this shop was closed at that time, or Norm would have certainly bought one, or five.
  • Ljubljana door and a couple of strong men.
  • Also in Ljubljana. Spot the castle.
  • In the Volčji Potok arboretum they set a door like this just for me.
  • The Franciscan church in Ljubljana, side entrance. I have zero photos of the main entrance. Why?
  • More pink on the way to the beach in Monte Argentario.
  • And more still. This was in Koper and that is my (former) suitcase.
  • To end the pink wave in Piran. I like this setup.
  • A thin one in Massa Marittima.
  • A tall one in Rome.
  • An old one with nice wall in Tatti.
  • In Piran chances are a door comes with the sunset.
  • A beauty in Pertoča.
  • Parents got this photo on the pillow for their anniversary. In Caldana.
  • With the last visitor in Pitigliano.
  • The beautiful old villa “My Peace” in Fokovci. And now click on the photo and go through them again in the colourful gallery.

For Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors challenge.

33 thoughts on “Thursday Doors, 19/12/19: 2019”

  8. Bravo! From all of the wonderful doors you captured last year I can just imagine just how difficult it was to narrow it down to a top 33 list.
    Of course it’s absolutely impossible to me to pick a favourite.
    I also wanted to take a minute and wish you both (and Fonsie too!) all the best of the season and much health and happiness in 2020.
    Here’s to many wonderful doorscursions in 2020!
    Cheers 😀

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  16. Pingback: Pic and a Word #294: What travel? – An Embarrassment of Riches

Happy to learn the first thing on your mind.

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.