I’m told that there is no special word for the ladling of scented water over hot stones which is done at regular intervals in a sauna. It not only smells nice, it immediately raises the temperature and usually burns in your nostrils.
Here it is de rigeur to go nude in a sauna (sitting on your towel but not being rolled up in it) so my nudibums can illustrate.
I guess you can feel passionate about almost anything. This is the “Bembel Express” in Frankfurt, a tram wagon that can be booked as a party train. It has Goethe (the Frankfurt born, German famous poet) on the it, the famous row of houses called “the Römer”, the central place of Frankfurt with the medieval (rebuild) townhall, a lebkuch (hard ginger cake) heart sold at street festivities, and the blue bembel (the grey stoneware jugs used for cider) on the left which mentions the Frankfurt character Frau Rauscher undeniably linked with the sour cider of Hesse culture. To top it off the add is one for cider, “out of tradition and passion”.
FOWC with Fandango: Passionate
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It’s the only remaining guild of the medieval guilds in Seligenstadt. It was founded in 1546.
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The original was photographed with an in-camera edit called “toy pop”. The following are Whatsapp AI edits.
It’s not always a simple edit sometimes AI cuts the photos slightly differently or removes parts of the photo (e.g. in the “cartoon” and “collage” edits the branch in the upper left corner has disappeared) or adds elements (particularly in the edits “goth” and the single colour edits elements and even people are sometimes added – of which I don’t have control).
One to three challenge in November
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I never knew there were so many around here. But not so many that it isn’t a thrill every time one lets me come kind of close. Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge: Grey
I don’t know but the word riptide only conjurs up the tv series Riptide with Perry King in my mind.I don’t know how often I saw an episode but it must have left an impression.The IMDB rating is 6.8 which is respectable for an 80s series. Anyway, the word and the memory pushed me down a rabbit hole.
I found out that Perry King, who looked like a blond version of Tom Selleck back in the day, complete with 80s moustache, has matured very nicely, thank you. In fact, reading about the series (since I don’t remember much beyond the title) it seems it was a cheap copy of Magnum P.I.: three friends work as private investigators somewhere near the South Californian coast, two Vietnam war veterans and a technical nerd (not quite like Higgins but an odd one out). They even have a helicopter.
I found out that the latest part Perry King played was in a 2023 podcast called “The signal” which got the near perfect score of 9.7 on IMDB. Almost too good to be true, I don’t remember ever even seeing a 9.7 rating. Maybe because there are only 9 ratings, no actual reviews. It’s classified as sci-fi and available for free on the platform where I listen to podcasts.So I am, listening that is. Started with episode 1. So far, reminiscent of radio plays from years gone by. So far not even close to 9.7, maybe it will get better.I don’t know if I’ll stick with it. Or if I will be caught in a riptide.
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