One Day I found this lookout

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and realised that there is mediterranean flair to be found in Germany.

This window is the look from a the pergola garden of Castle Stolzenfels in the Middle Rhine Valley near Koblenz. The first German emperor had it renovated and recreated as a summer residence for the Prussian King when he was still the Crown Prince, in the first half of the 19th century.

Weekly Prompts The One Day Challenge

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The boy who refused to eat his soup

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In 1844 a father wrote a book for his son, a collection of one gruesome story after the next. It became one of the most well-known German children’s books ever (not the most beloved).

This is the story of Augustus, who would not have his soup (I grabbed the translation into English from this site). 

Augustus was a chubby lad;
Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had:
And everybody saw with joy
The plump and hearty, healthy boy.
He ate and drank as he was told,
And never let his soup get cold.
But one day, one cold winter's day,
He screamed out "Take the soup away!
O take the nasty soup away!
I won't have any soup today."
 
Next day, now look, the picture shows
How lank and lean Augustus grows!
Yet, though he feels so weak and ill,
The naughty fellow cries out still
"Not any soup for me, I say:
O take the nasty soup away!
I won't have any soup today."
 
The third day comes: Oh what a sin!
To make himself so pale and thin.
Yet, when the soup is put on table,
He screams, as loud as he is able,
"Not any soup for me, I say:
O take the nasty soup away!
I WON'T have any soup today."
 
Look at him, now the fourth day's come!
He scarcely weighs a sugar-plum;
He's like a little bit of thread,
And, on the fifth day, he was—dead!

Die Geschichte vom Suppen-Kaspar, aus: Der Struwwelpeter von Heinrich Hoffmann

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Refuse