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Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
A Tale of Two Toys
Moritz and Max are an inseparable unit since they met each other on a day long hike through the mountains. Ever since they try to recreate this first magic encounter.
Last weekend the glorious sunshine beckoned them on another exploit.
Over hedge and ditch, over hill and dale, over rough and smooth they went.
Climbing high into the mountains.
And ending their day in the sparkling waters at the bottom of the valley.
Tired and happy after frolicking in the sand, they think of their next adventure together.
To Protect from Harm, Head Ache and Diarrhea
Kindness comes in all shapes and sizes. A disgruntled former customer of an inn wants to do other Sunday strollers a kindness by telling them that the innkeeper at said inn serves out of date beer. And he doesn’t mind using six (6!!) exclamation mark to grab the attention of his audience.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Symbolises an Act of Kindness
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It Was a Hot and Humid Day
and I totally felt with these guys walking behind the vat of beer!
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The Walls Are Lifting Me Higher
Burg Wildenstein, a fortified castle, is situated on rocky formation at 810 metres above sea level, almost 200m higher than the Danube, still a smallish stream in this area. Once up on the ridge the walls of the castle rise still higher.
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Impressions of Walkers in the Summer Sunshine
We spent the weekend with lots of friends doing little else but walk in the sunshine (at least, as long as the sun was up). I am left with lots of impressions.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: A Summer Walk in the Sunshine
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I’m a Fan of … Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Last week, I admitted to being a fan of Friedrich Schiller, today I want to show off the other half of the German poetic pair, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
He was a very prolific writer – he lived a long life and wrote defining works during quite a few of the literary epochs he lived through, from the Sturm und Drang (the rebellious pro-romantic youth movement), through the classic era to post-romanticism. He was also a natural scientist of renown. He studied law and worked as a minister at the court in Weimar. His literary works comprise poems, novels, essays and plays – he wrote THE definitive German play, Faust (part I and II – of which I still know parts by heart).
He was born in Frankfurt am Main and so it is no surprise that his face is seen in lots of places in the state of Hesse and in Frankfurt in particular.
The middle picture is not from Frankfurt but I found it in Teplice in the Czech Republic.
The plaque is a quote from the poem “Song of the Spirits over the Waters” and is translated as:
“Soul of man, how like to the water! Fate of man, how like to the wind!”
The mural is a quote from the novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther” and the translation reads:
“Death, where is your sting? Love, where is your victory?”
And finally a photo of the sculpture in front of the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Wiesbaden, which I found really very weird. Just look at the face of a middle-aged Goethe on top of the body a much younger man who spends his time in the gym rather than be the bon vivant which Goethe was according to all that we know.
I’d rather end this post with another view of the Goethe and Schiller, the two friends.
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