Each year on Ascension Day about 2500 members of student fraternities are descending on our hometown. They wear their traditional uniforms and are practicing other traditions (like finding out how much beer they can hold). The new members are tenderfooting it – they still have to learn a lot (like how to walk after having taking in the maximum amount of beer).
I don’t know if “covey” is the correct word – but it’s more than one bird, yet they are not enough for a flock. But this being “public art” I guess the frame is the important detail anyway.
Pfälzer Saumagen (pig’s stomach from the Palatinate) may sound horrid but it’s actually a very tasty dish, similar to a fat sausage consisting of pork, potatoes and spices and stuffed in a pig’s stomach rather than a thin piece of intestine.
Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl who was a native of the Palatinate loved this dish and served it to his guests of state. Rumour has it that the better they liked it, the better he got on with them. I don’t know if that’s true but it was always reported that while Mikhail Gorbachev liked it quite well, Margaret Thatcher detested it and look at the politics of these three! I was absolutely sure that a photo existed of Thatcher looking suspiciously on her plate (and everybody I spoke to was also sure) but this seems to be trope rather than a reality.
Anyway, the inhabitants of the area are quite adamant that Adam and Eve came to live in the Palatinate after they were kicked out of Eden since this is the part of Earth that came closest to paradise. No wonder they consider their most typical food and drink – wine and saumagen – to be fit for the gods.
Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jaws” is called “The White Shark” in German. Here I present:
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: J Anywhere in the Word
Wordless Wednesday
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Oh, sorry, … I misunderstood. I will eschew such pictures in the future.
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Many years past the Rhine meandered through the Upper Rhine Valley until it was straightened out between 1817 und 1876 and in the wake of this engineering feat loops were cut off and recreational areas created. Near the town of Ketsch, south of Mannheim, an island was created to the right side of the river Rhine. It is mainly covered by woods with lots of birds and butterflies. It has been granted protected status.
From Ketsch a wooden bridge allows access to the island, restricted for hikers and bicycles except for forestry vehicles. In this first photo you can see that next to the island is the built-up town with roads and buildings.
If you traverse the island – about 2km at its widest – you come to the bank of the Rhine proper.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Landscapes or Waterscapes
