And that’s why I like rugby

These stickers are from the next city’s football club. They are absolutely hideous proclaiming “death and hate” and featuring grave robbers who are about to exhume German football heroes from 70 years back who played for “the other club”, 60 km to the west – because they are directed towards one particular club, aka “the arch enemy”. I find them (and other actions of the football hooligans) distasteful to the extreme.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Hideous

Working in Darmstadt

When I first started living near Darmstadt in 2005 the area southwest of the main station was brush. They started building sometime around 2010. These photos are from 2022. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Professional Offices

Happy Holidays!

“Holidays are necessary celebrations of human collectiveness. It reminds us we’re a part of society.”― Kailin Gow For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. It’s a day that we’re alive.”― Penn Jillette, Every … Continue reading Happy Holidays!

Then and now

These crenelated shadows are from the basilica of Einhard, the biographer and contemporary of Charlemagne. The basilica was built around 825 in Steinbach, near Michelstadt im Odenwald. This on the other hand, is a much smaller shadow of a collection of elvish clay characters contemporary … Continue reading Then and now