The fourth and last puzzle in the Days Out series is set in Brighton. I think the green bus is my favourite vehicle in the series 🙂 All of the puzzles were pretty easy, and I finished two of them in one sitting (two sittings, actually, one for each puzzle).
The third of the puzzles in the Days Out set. The round building is the Radcliffe Camera that serves as a reading room to the Bodleian library. I did this in one sitting, it’s very hard to leave these puzzles once you’ve gotten started 🙂
The second in my set of four Ravensburgers is an image of York, with the famous cathedral in the background. The blue vehicle (I hesitate to call it a car) in the foreground looks intriguing, I think it only has three wheels! I also enjoyed the old ads for Polo and KitKat on the bus and on the delivery van. This was even more fun than the first one!
This is the first in a set of four Ravensburger 500-piece puzzles. The set belongs to the Happy Days-series, and all four images are of vintage English scenes. I especially like the old cars and buses. I chose to do this first, because it had the most vegetation, and even so, I enjoyed it enormously!
Wonderful puzzle with planets and information about them. Pluto is included, although there’s a note that it is no longer considered a planet. There was lot’s of information about the planets, like mass and temperature.
I especially liked the panel on the left showing the relative sizes of the different planets. Here’s Jupiter, and underneath Mars is just a tiny dot:
This was one of the Made in Germany Eurographics, and while the cut is as good as ever, I noticed that they’re using thinner board than they used to. Not too bad, but obviously, I prefer the thicker board.
This was a nice enough rural scene type puzzle, in fact it’s #3 in the Rural Crafts series. I’m not usually a fan of vegetation in puzzles, and I could have done without the trees here 🙂
There is actually something strange in the way the farrier is working:
Another duck puzzle from the Kaj Stenvall collection. This is actually one of my favourite images in the series, and it also turned out to be a very entertaining puzzle. The quality was good, although some of the pieces were a bit worn. I could definitely tell that the puzzles has been completed a couple of times before. I was actually happy to find it complete, the box was badly scratched and there were some crayon markings as well, but I guess the child didn’t get into the box, because the pieces were not damaged, and also all there.
This door collage was just as fun as it looks! Even though the title is Doors of the World, all the doors look somehow English to me 🙂
Some of the pieces have probably absorbed some liquid at some point, but there was no discoloration (or smell), you could only tell because the fit was far too tight in some places.
I forgot to take closeups, but since there is no black and yellow door, of these, I would choose the pink door (third row, third from the right).
This, unfortunately, turned out to be probably the worst Ravensburger that I’ve ever done. Many of the pieces won’t lie flat, and the fit was also quite loose. I don’t mind a loose fit, but combined with a bad cut it doesn’t make for an enjoyable experience.
The puzzle is from 2004. I bought it second hand, but the bag with the pieces was still unopened.
Until I started working on it, I thought there would be hardly any text in this puzzle. Well, turned out that there were plenty of place names, you just needed a magnifying glass to see them:
I can’t think why they would have made the text so small. All in all, not a good day for Ravensburger.
Lovely image by Loup in panorama format. It turned out to be a bit more difficult than I had anticipated, but it was still fun.
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