Hydrants - the holiday collection


As you'll see from my sidebar, I'm a collector of fire hydrants. The French variety is so different from the Scottish one that I had to add to the collection. You can imagine my long-suffering family as I took these shots. Above, a hydrant with a view at Biarritz. Below, an ordinary, workaday, been-around-a-bit hydrant in Soussans.


Below, a hydrant in Basque country. Note the street sign in French and Basque.


Finally, my favourite, from the mountain village of Sare: the new, plastic, streamlined hydrant, in its own little alcove. A sort of hydrant shrine.

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  1. I like the first one. A nice bright red!

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  2. These look quite different from our hydrants in Montreal too!

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  3. This made me grin. Such a funny thing to collect!

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  4. They are definitely design differently than I have ever seen before. What a nice thing to collect.

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  5. Very interesting, I collect some things but have never thought about fire hydrants. I'm going to have to pay more attention to them from now on!

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  6. Something I never thought about - neat thing to collect as you travel about. I will now be keeping my eyes open for hydrants!

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