In fact, it is definitely Cyprus. Near Polis Chrysochous.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Pick a Topic from My Photo
Wordless Wednesday
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This Is Probably Cyprus
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Greetings, Adventurer
So starts the preface of The Complete Ankh-Morpork City Guide by Terry Pratchett (aided and abetted by the discworld emporium).
The book itself is one that makes one love books made of paper.
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A Prayer for a Mountaineer
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
Edward Abbey
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I Am a Frog
So what do I know? To me – that’s a cello. And if you had my fingers you’d pluck it, too, rather than using a bow.
The Black Bird in the Family
Midweek Monochrome
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Blushing Sandstone
There are strange looking faces decorating the capstones of various gateways of the Mannheim Palace. This one got my particular attention. What has the old biddy so embarrassed that she is biting her lip so desperately?
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Embarrassed
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The World’s Favourite Sport
Not mine, I’m afraid. But I have a husband, I have two sons, and I’m German. So along the way I picked up some knowledge about German if not much of the enthusiasm that others feel.
Five matches were played in Kaiserslautern (my husband’s hometown) when Germany hosted the World Cup in 2006. In a square near the train station there are ten statues of players from all the teams that played in K’town (that’s what the US soldiers stationed nearby call it). They are slightly larger than life and I think made of papier mâché judging by the yellow-green moss growing on them.
While I do not share this escape route I acknowledge that for many people all over the world it is the perfect escapism.
Schtri, schtra, schtro – de Summerdag is do
Technically these pictures were not taken in summer. But “summer’s day” is celebrated each year on Laetare Sunday, i.e. three weeks before Easter. After a spring parade through town a large snowman is burnt to represent the end of winter.
In years gone by the snowman was burnt in the town square. For years, the fire fighters have argued that this is not safe with so many people in the square, close to the burning effigy. Covid gave them the ammunition they needed and now the burning takes place in the gardens of the local castle. This picture is from ten years ago:
Sorry for the title. It’s local dialect.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Summer – Fire
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