After trying to stuff the whole roll in his mouth his diction became slightly unclear.
Give to the Owl
The local bird park doesn’t charge admission. They ask for donations instead. Whatever you feel is justified and what you can afford.
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The Four Bridges of Heidelberg
Over a stretch of 3.5 km there are four bridges in Heidelberg. In this photo I managed to catch all four of them. The one in the foreground, barely recognisable as a bridge, is the footpath on top of the waterlock.
The next one is the Old Bridge just underneath the Heidelberg Castle. Although many years ago it was open to cars but now it is exclusively open to pedestrians, mainly tourists.
The third one, named after the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss, is also a two lane road with a wide pedestrian lane and an extra bicycle track. Where it crosses the river Neckar the old part of Heidelberg (and the long pedestrian-only stretch ends.
The last one, the Ernst-Walz-Brücke named after the Mayor of Heidelberg in the first part of the 20th century, is a four lane road, not particularly pretty but utilitarian and very important for Heidelberg’s traffic flow. The bridge pylons can just bee seen in the last photo.
Cee’s Which Way Challenge: Any type of bridge
Monday Portrait
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Waiting
5 Minutes, she said. That was 15 minutes ago.
It happens every time. One delay after another.
Weeky Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Delays
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Little Sun Bursts
Midweek Monochrome
Native Speaker
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Does a bilingual speaker have a mother and father tongue?
Are you an orphan if you prefer to talk tongue-in-cheek?
And I leave you with a plea for my profession:
Being a native speaker is not a profession.
Being a translator is.
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Wood, Wine and Wats
(I apologise – Germans are known to overcompensate when it comes to pronouncing of “V”s.)
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Pick a Topic in September
Wordless Wednesday
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