For a fresh start, Aino has given us free reign: she asked for a collage in our favourite coulours.
No more Guards
The aptly named “Pont de l’Europe” or “Europabrücke” between Strasbourg (France) and Kehl (Germany). This used to be a “proper” border with guards, and customs officers, and showing your passport. Then with the EU progressing, the controls became more lax and you only had to show your national ID document and often, you weren’t really checked at all.
Nowadays it’s just a bridge, there are no controls at all. Somewhere in the middle of the bridge is a sign denoting that you are entering from one country into the next. I would have liked to show that but it was impossible to take a photo in the totally jam-packed tram. Strasbourg and Kehl share a tramline (with announcements in both, French and German) and lots of people hop on in one country and get off in the other.
Gold and Red Bauble
Macro Monday
I, Robot
On his chest it says “Progress through Training” (he is a project from ABB trainees).
Monday Portrait
Fun and Games and a Strange Looking Bird
The last on the mobile phone SD card: the marble run (a Christmas present for our grandson).
The last on the camera’s SD-card: We went to a bird zoo on the last day of the year.
The Last on the Card in December
The Sun Setting Slowly on 2022
Actually, it was last Tuesday. But close enough, I suppose.
Weekend Sky
Walking up the Lothar Pfad
The worst winter storm in recorded European history was Cyclone Lothar in 1999. In the Black Forest there is a strip of land which was left to heal itself. It’s possible to walk through the area and see what happens if nature is left to do its own thing. In order not to disturb this process visitors are not allowed to walk on the ground but on the raised planks leading through the emerging forest.
My husband’s first name is Lothar so he has a special connection to the area.
On the Eighth Day of Hogswatch
There were eight milking maids a-watching out of eight dormer windows.
For Jude’s Twelve Days of Christmas
