Five years ago something happened that completely changed my life here in Italy. Nothing would ever be the same again. I started to mind the doors.
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I still know exactly how it felt when I realised that there was a challenge tempting us to post door photos on Thursdays. It felt like what finding your tribe feels like.
I posted my first Thursday Doors post on May the 1st 2015 and this was the first door in that post:
Altogether I have posted 249 door posts on my five (consecutive) blogs (51+80+48+35+34 + this post). Yes, I counted them manually just now. That should make at least 2000 door photos in total. And no, I have no plans to stop.
I had been minding doors to a small degree before joining up, as today’s post will prove, but not nearly as much as I do now. Admittedly, as the trips with Flavia have showed, I don’t notice many other things since my eyes are drawn to doors so much.
Just days before finding out about Thursday Doors, I posted this post with four windows and four doors from Lucca. It may have been the first with the type of captions I sometimes write.
Obviously at that moment I could still have gone either way: windows or doors. And then I found Thursday Doors.
Doors add an extra dimension to my life, spotting them is good fun and games, and most importantly, they bring friends over.
Thank you for being a friend, Norm, Dan, Joey, and all other regular and irregular door posters. And a big gift of gratitude to Norm for hosting the challenge all this time! I wish you all well and to many more doors and friends.
And now let’s see my door beginnings before I got accustomed and conditioned to door-spotting. All these doors have been posted on my first blog prior to May 2015.
Click on a photo and see them in the colourful horizontal gallery, now with captions!
I had to include a Smart since Norm has one in his last post. This is in Rome. I cut them in this ugly way instead of moving back a little. Our beach. This double door was convincing. Scarlino. Two photos from Metelkova City, Ljubljana, Slovenia. I love this pattern. Tuscania. One of the first photos where I really felt the door. The colour scheme of Porto Ercole. Also there. One of my all-time favourites. San Martino sul Fiora. A random find. Quite possibly my first dorfie. Magliano. Pitigliano is a door heaven. Also there. This door is cut too. How could I? Mother in Sovana. Doors were just a backdrop. Father in Padna, Slovenia. Backdrop again. Modelling in Orbetello. Photo: Duša Leaving Prague after Pearl Jam gig in 2012. Piran, Slovenia. Could be in Tuscany. The bookshop in Maribor, just below my grandma’s place. This house is a fancy private club now. I liked it more then. Doors in Porto Ercole know me by now.
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Thanks for sharing these colorful door adventures. I liked the horizontal gallery view, how it took a bit of the photo and used it as a background.
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Thank you! Isn’t it an amazing effect? And yet I see it on so few other blogs, I think on only one other for now. Always welcome!
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Never tire of door photos 🙂
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No worries, Bushboy. 🙂 Thank you!
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Dorfi and your mama are my favourites. A close third is you modelling. I wish I had interesting doors to share. These posts I see produced by you, Dan, and Joey are always so artful and inspiring.
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Thank you, Susanne, from my mama too. 🙂 I’m so glad that you find inspiration in our posts. They are good to make you keep your eyes open. You never know when you will come upon a worthy specimen. 🙂
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Your Smart car is cuter than my Smart car and that door mat at the end is precious 😀
As for the doors, fabulous as usual. I don’t remember how we found each other but I sure am glad that we did.
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Heheh, we all need this doormat. 😀 Thanks, Norm! No Smart car is all that cute, if you ask me, but they sure get around. I much prefer the 2CV. 🙂
I don’t remember the specifics but I found the link to you in another blog, and I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to just simply join or what. And I did and the rest is history…
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Keep minding doors… 👍🏻
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By all means, Equinoxio. 🙂 Thank you!
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These are great, the first photo at the Cathedral is a piece of art, beautiful
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Thank you so much, Alice! 🙂 Orvieto is amazing. I have not even been inside the Cathedral yet.
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Piran always catches my eye. Keep smiling indeed. Love the last photo with the cheeky message.
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It’s a sign, Amanda. 🙂 Thank you! Let’s smile!
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The doors must go on!
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Jaaa! Thank you, Maksi Meksi.
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Congratulations on posting doors for so long, you make me feel like such a noob. The keep smiling door is simply stunning.
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Thank you, Scooj. Ah, but you’ve been along for quite some time yourself! Let’s never run out of doors!
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Never.
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These are great doors, Manja. I love the building with the blue doors and shutters.
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Thank you so much, Dan. I love it too. The effect is very summery and happy even though the facade has the humidity problem like many around here.
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Congratulations! I like that cathedral door particularly, but they’re all good.
janet
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Thank you so much, Janet. I think you’ve been doing Thursday Doors posts just as long if not longer. I remember you from the start.
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I don’t really know. I”ll have to check. I’ve been at it for quite some time and still loving it. 🙂
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An impressive history, Manja! Hope I’ll be as wild and good as you are when I grow up (in door posts, that is):) Love the one, or rather the frame from Ljubliana. Interesting and inspiring and happy anniversary! Jesh.
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“Hope I’ll be as wild and good as you are when I grow up!” Hahhaha! This is the best line I’ve heard in a month. Thank you so much, Junieper. Wild and good is the way to be. 😉 That part of Ljubljana is extremely artistic. I hope you get to see it one day.
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Glad I made you smile, but it’s so boring when people are so nice and predictable! Sigh, I really really hope travel will go back the way it was!
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Oh my, these are wonderful doors, Manja. And it’s funny how you’ve counted up all your door posts. I think that’s what this time of isolation does to you 😂😂😂
Regards, Teresa
https://mywanderings.travel.blog/
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Hihihi, I think you’re right, Teresa. I’ve reached the counting phase. 😀 I see that you continue on the new blog. I’ll have a look and stay close. Thank you for all your visits and kind words!
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Doors are your passion. I enjoy them by the way you draw attention to them. They are magical because of that 🙂
Thank you, Manja ❤️
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Thank you so much, Vineetha! ❤ This sounds lovely. I can make something magical! 🙂 All well to you and always welcome.
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Keep making us smile.
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Most gladly, Bojana. 🙂 I’m glad that I do.
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I love looking at them every week. The patterned door is quite wonderful. (K)
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Thank you so much, K. I’m glad you come looking.
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Beautiful and interesting doors. 😊
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Thank you so much, Irene! 🙂 I hope you’re well.
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I love your eye for doors, Manja!
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Thank you so much, Sue! 🙂 I’m still loving it as much as when I first started, if not more.
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Not only have you been entertaining us for several years with your colorful, eye-catching, Thursday Door contributions, you also got to meet Norm! I’d say that meeting was the icing on the cake and a cherry on top! Or to use the analogy of the door, the one with several windows and a transom. May there be many doors in your future and may the doors open soon.
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❤ Thank you so much, Lisa! Oh yes, that was definitely the highlight, having the Door Master over and show him some of the door splendours of Italy. He and his wife were here for four days, and yet it was only a beginning. The days just whizzed by. And you visited Equinoxio! Blogging is so rewarding.
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You and the doors… This endless love🤦🏻♀️☺️ I always think of you when I see a peculiar one and the hours that you would keep me in front of it. But I don’t mean to complain about it, it’s part of you, but I like to mock you from times to times! Especially when you ignore the rest of the city for them 🤦🏻♀️🤣 hopefully this winter we could take back some of the wasted time❤️
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Hhahah, ignore the rest of the city!! For sure not gelatos! Did you see, a few days before finding out about Thursday Doors I posted “4 doors and 4 windows from Lucca”. I could still go either way, doors or windows! 😮 Thanks, Flavia, you can mock me for this all you wish. 😀 One day we will go somewhere again… And again and again.
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My dear, you know that it’s to joke! To tell you the truth you made me remark that when you told me that in Viterbo you had missed the dog that I took into picture. What is for sure is that there will be other getaways, more photos and more fun together I cannot wait for that!
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Congratulations on your 5th Doors Anniversary!
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Thank you kindly! 🙂
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Happy Doorversary! Your collections are by far the most beautiful in #ThursdayDoors! It’s not fair how blessed your doorvironment is! Not to mention, how well you photograph everything! I feel terrible guilt for not having any doors to share in so long. I do have them, some, but not the dedication I used to. I appreciate being mentioned, Manja! Door on!
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Thank you so much, Joey! Don’t feel guilt, we only do what we feel and can, nothing can be forced.
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