“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
Oscar Wilde
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It used to be a private mansion. The building and the surrounding garden still belongs to the family company but nowadays the garden is open to the public on most days and a botanical garden of some renown. Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof in Weinheim.
In the Saarland they fashioned tree trunks into open bookshelves where books can be exchanged.
I’m certain that it will rain again, hopefully rather sooner than later.
A few weeks back Jude showed rare red postboxes she found in the UK. I added a couple of old blue ones from Germany. Going through older files I came across this French postbox. The colour, even today, of French letter boxes is yellow. This particular one, found in Oppède in Provence, is not ancient but old enough.