and this goose will have lost all its softness. Instead of the fluffy downs it will sport splendid shiny feathers.
Pitching for Luck
Before stag and hen parties became a thing in Germany, we had Polterabend, a party before the wedding day usually with the wedding guests as well as all the friends who won’t come to the reception. One tradition is the actual “Poltern”, the guests break dishes and other crockery for luck. The first joint task of the couple is to clear up the debris to prepare them for married life. I have this personal theory that there is a finite amount of porcelain that is going to break in anygiven marriage and the plates and dishes broken on the polterabend are deducted from this, i.e. the more you break during that party, the less will be broken during the marriage.
Standing on the Wing of an Airplane
At the Technikmuseum in Speyer they have a Boing 474 and you can walk out on its wing.
You can see the Speyer Cathedral.
To the west, the mountains of the Palatinate Forest can be seen.
Further to the south is the town of Speyer and the trees lining the banks of the river Rhein.
Zooming out and the tail of the jumbo on which I was standing comes into view.
And that is the view to the front of the airplane.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Three views from one spot
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I Hope They Never Photograph Me Like This
This is an exhibit from inside a submarine. Somebody at the Technical Museum in Speyer seems to like these kind of exhibits because we found another one in an airplane. Maybe there were more?
Monday Portrait
Windows into the World
We spent Easter Sunday at the Technical Museum in Speyer. We went into a Boeing 747, a Viscount, and a Canada Air CL-415 (an amphibious water bomber) amongst others. The windows are scratchy and dusty as these are museum pieces and no longer in use but that actually works well to make room for all that imagination.
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Model Car
Macro Monday
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