Best of Thursday Doors 2021

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Since this is the last Thursday Doors post of the year, let’s have 30 of my favourite doors posted in 2021.

This year has been spread over two blogs, so the first half and a bit of my Thursday Doors can be found on my previous blog Mexcessive.

With August we have all moved to this blog where one of the most memorable Thursday Doors post as such, with no door that would stand out but as an experience, must have been Doors for lunch. Remember that terrace view and the food?

After I had a look at all these doors again, I have chosen 30 most representative ones, closest to my heart. They have all been posted this year and mostly photographed too, but some of them are from the prepandemic times, such as the Farnese and Viterbo doors.

The gallery starts with five door gifts, including last week’s Oregon bird sanctuary gate gifted by Crystal and famous uncle’s fridge door. Then follow Slovenian doors, including the featured photo that father took at the Betnava Castle, and the ones from Italy are not far behind.

Under the gallery is something that I played around with only to realise that a gif (most probably) would not be accepted in the new Thursday Doors badge contest which our host Dan is organising. Still, have a look. But I include also my second, official badge proposition.

Be well, enjoy the holidays and keep your doors open or closed, depending on whether you have to embrace something or let it go.

  • Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve, Oregon. Thanks, Crystal!
  • Funchal, Madeira. Thanks, mom’s witch friend Katja Repič!
  • Thank you for this Azore door, D. P.!
  • Abandoned Studenice monastery in Slovenia. Thank you, dad!
  • Uncle took a photo of his most important door, he says.
  • A Piran favourite. I need to alert them that a new coat is needed.
  • Somebody drew a heart on our Piran door. Once before I posted its photo giving people permission to draw on it. I wonder…
  • Kašča Jurček in Ljubljana. Good food and door.
  • Betnava Castle near Maribor, father’s birthplace. His photo with thanks.
  • The old passport office in Ljubljana. They laughed and sent me elsewhere.
  • A new church for me in Rakovnik, Ljubljana.
  • The Stožice Arena is pretty but its door is quite basic.
  • Mom on our balcony in Ljubljana, the best sign in the world.
  • Hey, little guy. You make me smile every time I see you.
  • To Italy now. These knockers in Farnese are my all-time favourites.
  • The fairy-tale town Sant’Angelo di Roccalvecce and the best use of a door.
  • Ghost town Celleno and a female gimnast on rings.
  • My first time in San Gimignano happened this year too.
  • One of the extra special doors. Farnese.
  • Santa Fiora doors as discovered with Crystal and Pedro in September.
  • Another Santa Fiora door and laundry scene.
  • Your door squad in Tarquinia. With Flavia and uncle.
  • A favourite door in Tarquinia because this lunch was so good.
  • A knockout door from our first stop in Padua ever.
  • A Viterbo beauty. I said I wouldn’t mind half of clothes in this tone.
  • Another Viterbo green door which got a poem which got me featured during last year’s NaPoWriMo.
  • Torre Alfina and its only castle door.
  • Inside the Santa Severa castle there is a museum and a hostel.
  • A rare door that I first found on Google Maps and knew I had to visit. Janua Coeli Monastery near Sorano on my birthday.
  • A sign of better times to come. Open-door day in May and one of the three gardens I visited, the one at Villa Cetinale.

First, the gif I made thinking it would certainly attract attention if added to every Thursday Doors post, but it is 2 MB big even after compression.

That’s why my official proposal for our new badge is this:

For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities

This day in my blogging history

Published by Manja Maksimovič

A Slovenian in Italy for love. Blogger, photographer, translator and would-be writer who would be a writer if she wrote. Plus reluctant but emerging poet. Beware.

51 thoughts on “Best of Thursday Doors 2021”

  2. I consider you the queen of doors:) I love the first capture, and my favorites of yours are the blue detailed door on the right, as well as the fox with his paws on the door. Wishing you a very merry Christmas, and all the best for the year 2022, Manja!

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    1. Ha, indeed, you have been with me or in many of the same locations, Crystal. You know! 🙂 Still, I had been fearful of even worse heat that what we had. It was not so terrible. 😉 Thank you for your gate again, it’s getting lots of deserving love from my visitors.

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  6. Given all the doors you’ve had, Manja, I don’t know how you got it down to 30. These are wonderful, and I remember so many of them. I can’t pick a favorite but I love the one with your mom on the balcony and the one your uncle took of the important door. I also really like the fox door from last week.

    We can’t have a gif for the badge for two reasons. 1) I don’t thinks it’s supported on my sidebar, and 2) gifs make me nauseous. However, your second entry is fine.

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    1. Oh my, Dan, I never thought of your second reason. So sorry! Do you wish that I send you my other proposal by mail so that you don’t have to look at the gif again? And thanks, I did manage to keep them at 30. 😀 This is a fun tradition and I’m glad you continue with it.

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  21. Your mom’s witch friend’s door quite steals the show! Though your uncle has made an excellent point with his, ha ha! Absolutely love the wire sculpture of the gymnast. Perfect place to put it, so well thought out – great shot. Superbly framed with the light, the man walking by and his shadow 🙂

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