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The Brussels Sprouts have landed.
Massive Brussels sprout sculpture, outside Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium, as part of the 2012 Brusselicious food festival.

Hans Island, a tiny disputed island between Greenland and Canada, situated in the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait, between Greenland and Ellesmere Island. Hans Island has been the centre of an ongoing, and often surreal territorial dispute between Canda and Denmark, with various officials from both nations taking turns to plant flags on the island. In April 2012, it was announced that the two nations would sign an agreement to split the little 1.3 sq km island in two. The island is named after Hans Hendrik AKA Heindrich, a famous Greenlandic explorer who was also known as Suersaq. Photograph made in July 2009. More images here, on the blog I've written about Hans Island.

French cyclist Damien Gaudin, Team Europcar jumps off the cobblestones onto gravel, 13km from the finish of the 2012 Paris Roubaix professional cycling race classic. Here, Gaudin is passing Gruson, the 3rd last section of cobbles, 243km into the 256.5km route from Compiègne, near Paris, to Roubaix, northern France, which crosses 51.5km of pavé - 27 sections of ancient cobblestones, along the way. Gaudin placed 25th, out of 86 finishers out of 196 starters.

Swedish cyclist Gustav Larsson leads Jean-Lou Paiani on the pavé 13km from the finish of the 2012 Paris Roubaix professional cycling race classic. Here, the riders are passing Gruson, the 3rd last section of cobbles, 243km into the 256.5km route from Compiègne, near Paris, to Roubaix, northern France, which crosses 51.5km of pavé - 27 sections of ancient cobblestones, along the way. Larsson finished 31st, Paiani 30th.

Grischa Janorschke from NetApp team, punctures and starts to falling to the ground in a crash at the beginning of the Forest of Arenberg, in the Paris Roubaix professional cycling race classic, won in 2012 by Belgian Tom Boonen - for the fourth time. The 256.5km race runs from Compiègne, near Paris, to Roubaix, northern France, crossing 51.5km of pavé - ancient cobblestones, along the way. Janorschke fractured his elbow in the crash.