In Frankfurt and the areas around cider rivals beer as the favourite drink in pubs and restaurants. If it is a traditional place, it is served in stoneware cider jugs, called a Bembel. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Jug
Sashaying for Ten Kilometres
One of the runner (and a strong runner he is) only turns up in drag for our running meets. He always wears a bra and usually a running skort, he keeps dresses for special occasions. On his 50th birthday all the men arrived in drag, quite … Continue reading Sashaying for Ten Kilometres
Look at the Moon so Lonely
One half is showing only. It’s a line of one of the most famous German songs, Evening Song by Matthias Claudius. Most Germans are at least able to sing the first line and hum the rest. One Word Sunday: Above
The Lesson of the Common Moorhen
I wonder if some bird chicks look the way they do to instill in them humility. The moorhen seems to be a particular good example for this. FOWC with Fandango: Instill
Entangle Me!
A reticulated python is called that because of the net or web like pattern – reticulated means “like a net”. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Tangled Web
Across the Bridge
Crossing the river Neckar in Mannheim can be done on different bridges. This is the newest of them all, a bridge for pedestrians only. It’s the Collini-Steg – named after an intimate friend of Voltaire, Cosimo Alessandro Collini lived at the Mannheim court, considered an esteemed scientist, … Continue reading Across the Bridge
Testing the Ice on the Lake
Six Word Saturday
Nature or Nuture?
If you grow up in a specific neighbourhood it’s not just the houses and streets themselves, it’s the people, the language, the history. Is this influence more or less formative than the genes? FOWC with Fandango: Milieu
Joy or Sorrow
time keeps flowing. Birkenau (in the Odenwald) is a large village or small town of just under 10,000 inhabitants. It also has more than 200 sun dials, free standing ones and on houses. Since 2021 the record is official: Birkenau has the world record in “laregest … Continue reading Joy or Sorrow
It Was Cold and Windy
For FOTD and Floral Friday
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