We just spent a couple of weeks in Cyprus and came across these phones. In Nicosia I was giving up on seeing a phone in the Old City but just outside the walls, by the Museum entrance there was a very special one – solar powered (see below):
Lempa – by the house with the trippy ceramic walls
Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia solar phone
Paphos
Paphos marina
Troodos
Cyprus village
Larnaca
The phone box inside the fabulous Eltham Palace, London.
We took a visit to Bletchley Park over the weekend. Can highly recommend it. Here in a corner by the Mansion I found a phone…
We took a short trip to Vienna recently. I love the 1970’s style of box found out at the cemetery and in one of the museums. There was even a nod to the iconic London red box.
As a former librarian I warm to this story.
Phone box library closure threat angers residents
Book lovers who turned a red phone box into a makeshift library are angry after BT threatened to shut it down due to health and safety fears…
If I had a phone of the year competition this would be the winner:
Fujiya Hotel, Hakone
Others from our recent holiday to Japan:
Enoshima, Buddhist temple
Enoshima
Kamakura
On the shinkansen back to Tokyo
Tokyo
Tokyo
Tokyo
When was the last time you used a payphone? For New Yorkers, the answer is probably one they can’t remember, so the city today announced it will replace those payphones with up to 10,000 new kiosks armed with free gigabit Wi-Fi…
South Kensington, London
I’ve wondered for a while why disused phone boxes weren’t being used as ATMs. I wonder no longer. I just came back from South Kensington in London and saw my first in what I think will be a continuing trend. Note that although one side has become an ATM, another side remains a phone.
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