A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - A is for Arches and Anchors

As I travel the world I take many photos that pique my interest, these could be lumped into a "peculiar category" ie. they are peculiar to my interests and may be different from what one usually sees in a collection of travel photos.

For the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge in 2025 my theme is Peculiar Pics. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Peculiar Pics from my digital albums. These will be sourced from my travels between April 2024 to March 2025.

Britannica tells me that an "arch, in architecture and civil engineering, (is) a curved member that is used to span an opening and to support loads from above. The arch formed the basis for the evolution of the vault."

So my first image in this post is not really an arch!
 

Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine - Osaka, Japan 

On our walk through the old town - Tangier, Morocco

Supermarket - Lisbon, Portugal

Royal London Yacht Club - Cowes, Isle of Wight UK

Mural - Gadigal Light Rail Station, Sydney, Australia

Exit from the Old Town - Kotor, Montenegro

St Emillon, France

Melk Abbey - Melk, Austria

Wikipedia provides a detailed description of an Anchor. Most of the anchors I have snapped are out of the water in Museums and on monuments. 

Timber Anchor in Museum - Cadiz, Spain

Anchor from the Amoco Cadiz - Portsall, Brittany, France

Spotted on our way to the Balenciaga Museum - Getaria, Spain

Driveby - Matosinhos, Portugal