Author: eklastic

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Last on the Card in August

Camera SD

A small caveat for the phone SD: it’s not really the very last on the card. I use my smartphone extensively at work and the last photos were of the vaccination cards of my students (if they are vaccinated they don’t have to test for COVID twice a week). Obviously, I cannot share those.

Phone SD

So, 20 photos back – this is it. I feel questions like “What is it?” coming on. So here is a short explanation: It’s a crochet wine glass holder to hang around your neck so that you can have your hands free while rambling through the vineyards sampling the wine from the various cellars on “Weinwanderung” days.

For Brian’s Last on the Card in August on bushboys world.

Is It a Country? Is It a State? No, It’s a Huge Lady in Bronze!

This is not Bavaria the country but the female personification of the country (or German state) as she looks over Munich, the Bavarian capital.

She stand over 18 metres tall and weighs almost 90 tons.

She towers over the Wiesn, officially called Theresienwiese – a large, barren place that in September each year (except when COVID is around) is covered by beer tents and amusement rides and turns into the largest and oldest Oktoberfest of the world.

To the north is St Paul’s Church with three imposing spires.

And just a bit to the right the iconic towers of the Frauenkirche, the Cathedral of Our Dear Lady, can be seen over the roofs of the nearby houses.

Travel with Intent: Places ending with A

I’m a Fan of Geocaching

We are novices at geocaching and found our first two caches this week. The first one was a plastic capsule hidden in a fork of a tree in a bog near a pond. We were so inexperienced that we didn’t carry a pen to put our name down so I took a photo of the event.

This was the site of the second cache we attempted. It is definitely the right site but we didn’t find the cache. We later spoke to some more experienced lookers and they hadn’t found the cache either so it probably wasn’t our fault.

The third one was a teaser. We had the right location and we looked and looked and were just about to give up when another geocacher came who remembered a similar hiding place from a before. Would you believe that what looks like a screwed on square metal plate is actually a magnetic plate with the cache behind it?

We had fun.

I’m a fan of … #126