I’ve been in Dortmund for the weekend but didn’t feel like working on Epanouissement coloré right now, so I pulled out a fun and easy 500-piece puzzle instead. This was just what I needed, nice colours and not too challenging.
So, I did this last week, but I immediately realized I would have to publish it today, since this is the day when me and my car will board a ferry to Stockholm, and tomorrow I’ll be driving through Sweden and Denmark toward Germany. I hope to be in Dortmund on Saturday, but it’s fine if it takes an extra day. And of course, I hope there will be no car trouble!
I got the puzzle in a batch with lots of other 500 piece puzzles, and it’s not an image I would have chosen, but it turned out to be really entertaining. It was nowhere near as hard as I thought it would be, with the black and white background. Clementoni is an excellent brand, and the great quality helped a lot.
There will be no puzzling for some days now, obviously, but I’ve set it up so that there should be a post with an old photo every day. Wish me luck!
An aptly named puzzle 🙂 I’m back in Dortmund for the weekend, and I won’t have much time to puzzle, but this one didn’t take long.
Clementoni had a series of puzzles with an old and a modern photo of the same place, here the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. I haven’t done any other puzzles in the series, but there was definitely one with photos of London.
Despite being 50, I only very recently got a driver’s license and a car (I don’t really need one, it’s more of a luxury), and on Saturday I drove about 100 km north to Hämeenlinna and spent the day going through local flea markets looking for puzzles. Exercising enormous self-restraint I came back with only six puzzles:
The prices were much lower than online or in Helsinki.
One thing has started to bother me: where are all the Heye puzzles? I hardly ever see used Heye puzzles on offer in Finland, but I know many new ones are sold. I’ve bought Heye puzzles since the 90s, and the local store where I got Opus 2 always has all the new Heye puzzles. In fact, I talked to their jigsaw puzzle expert once (they have a lot of board games, not just jigsaws), and he confirmed that they always get all available Heye puzzles. So where do they all go? Perhaps they get sold on eBay for large sums? Still, not everyone would realize some Heye puzzles are valuable, surely? It’s a mystery.
I finally managed to finish the puzzle I was working on – it’s kind of slow when you have a cold and need a rest after placing 5 pieces.
It was a nice puzzle to work on, and the colours were very distinct. Sometimes, with this type of puzzle, everything looks like greenish soup until you’re done 🙂
The Temple of the Inscriptions in Mexico. The temple was built by the Mayans as a monument to a 7th Century ruler called Pakal. The many inscriptions in the temple have helped in the study of the ancient Mayan language. Even though the structure was well known even earlier, it wasn’t until the 1950s that Pakal’s tomb was found in the temple.
So, I finally managed to finish a puzzle. Fresh content!
This was a triptych in the form of three separate 500-piece puzzles, each with an image of a lighthouse in a raging sea. I usually prefer a bit more colour, but I especially enjoyed doing the water. The images are, of course stunning, the photographers are Philip and Guillame Plisson. No idea where these lighthouses are located, though.
About 10 years ago, Clementoni had a series called Ethnic Collection. The images always looked like they were painted on wood, and they represented various cultures seen as exotic from a European perspective. I had two puzzles from the series:
In addition, there were at least a couple of puzzles with African themes (one was Kilimanjaro) and one with an Indian theme (Taj Mahal, obviously).
I’ve never been to Pisa, but I found two versions of the Tower of Pisa among my puzzle pictures. The cartoon:
And the traditional one:
Both good puzzles 🙂
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