Author: eklastic

Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.

2000 years of outhouses

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Haselburg

This is the remains of a toilet facility built by Romans in a villa rustica in the Odenwald in German.  When it was built it was most probably not an outhouse as such but now it is as open as anything.

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This is from more than a millenium later, in the ruin of a castle in Handschuhsheim near Heidelberg.  Since it has no direct water access (unlike the Roman facilities) it was a lot less hygienic.

Tiefburg

This now is from the 21st century: plastic and with a slightly humourous sign.

Dixi

Finally, for my private satisfaction.  The poster of a local wannabe politician with a sign that shows where I think he belongs.

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Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: bathrooms, outhouses and port-a-potties.

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Teaching German

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“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.” 

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

This is Debbie’s quote for the week and basically, this is about my life, working as well as social.  So instead of a photo, I will just link to my other blog:

https://eklastic.wordpress.com/

where I talk about my experiences of teaching German to migrants and refugees, particular illiterate learners (some couldn’t write in any script, some only couldn’t write our Latin based script.  It started this almost four years ago (yikes! it’s been that long!!)

It’s written in English and German; I switch around with which language I start.

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This is linked to Travel with Intent: another language.

 

Letters and numbers

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The letter S.  I could not find out what it has to do with “Taunus” (a region in middle Germany) underneath.

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Tempo limits written directly on the street, 20 being a low number so that pedestrians are safe and can look at the pretty houses.

Orangerie

The old orangery in the Günthersburg park in Frankfurt is a leftover from times gone by. Today it is a park with a wonderful playground at its centre.

Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: letters and numbers. 

Playing can be hard work

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106 climb g

Here we go.

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The direction is up.

106 climb b

Hold on tight.

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Small hands and thick poles.

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A breather before the summit.

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Heave ho!

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Made it!

For One Word Sunday.  The prompt is: climb.  For more climbers, click here.

“Two souls, at least, reside within my breast!”

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109 view b

The (almost) accurate quote from Goethe’s Faust describes it best. There is this side of me, enamored by the rolling hills of the Odenwald,

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and then there is the other side, that loves the excitement of the city of Frankfurt with its highrise buildings and modern side of living.

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And this is the compromise, I guess.  A view from one side of the Upper Rhine valley, where I live, all the way across to the hills of the Palatinate (Pfalz), with the twin cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen on either side of the Rhine in between.  The distance from the Odenwald to the other side is about 50 kilometres at this point.

This is linked to A Photo a Week: View.

Threesomes

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03 three a

Three items or the number three, is what Cee wants this week.  I only found a boring, plain #3, nothing at all fancy.

 

 

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A shoot in the forest, its leaves a perfect threesome.

Haselburg Matronen

Three matrons, a relief found in on the site of a Roman villa in Germany.

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The three parts that make up the coat of arms of Weinheim: the lion of the Palatium, the blue and white diamonds of Bavaria, and the red “wine ladder” of the town of Weinheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Even older, the three arches of the Karolingian Hall of the Kloster Lorsch, a UNESCO world heritage site, it dates back to the 9th century A.D.

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No idea what the three scythes are supposed to symbolise, whether it is three forms of death that await the passerby or the hint that the grass needs to be mowed on the roundabout where they stand.

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Three nightlife flamingoes, part of the illumination in one of Mannheim’s parks.

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And I end with more birds, a threesome that is more of a story – look at those faces and think what has just happened and what is about to happen…

This is linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: three items or the number three.