Admittedly this was last weekend’s sky but it was more or less the last sky I saw since then having been holed up in our apartment to nurse the stinking cold I brought back from that glorious weekend. Weekend Sky
Tag: Bavaria
The Alps Are Beckoning
Wordless Wednesday
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The Vermessungsamt in Bad Tölz
You can see the Bavarian crest with the white and blue diamonds on top of the door which tells you it’s an official department, the land surveying office of the state of Bavaria, the branch in Bad Tölz which is about 60km south of Munich. … Continue reading The Vermessungsamt in Bad Tölz
One Day I Will Look Back
and say “I made it to here!” On this day I I looked forward and said: “Those mountains are too far away!” Weekend Prompts – The One-Day Challenge
Is It a Country? Is It a State? No, It’s a Huge Lady in Bronze!
This is not Bavaria the country but the female personification of the country (or German state) as she looks over Munich, the Bavarian capital.
She stand over 18 metres tall and weighs almost 90 tons.
She towers over the Wiesn, officially called Theresienwiese – a large, barren place that in September each year (except when COVID is around) is covered by beer tents and amusement rides and turns into the largest and oldest Oktoberfest of the world.
To the north is St Paul’s Church with three imposing spires.
And just a bit to the right the iconic towers of the Frauenkirche, the Cathedral of Our Dear Lady, can be seen over the roofs of the nearby houses.
A toothy perspective
And while I was remembering Munich yesterday, here is the statue of Bavaria – the lady and her lion who each year (except for this one) overlook the Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese.
My Square Perspective no. 9 is linked to The Life of B.
All five again
This is for Thursday Special: Pick a Word. More marginal, iconic, zoomorphic, cleaved, and propagation photos can be found here.
Closer, hold me closer …
To get away from clogged highways we stopped for lunch and a walk in the small town of Günzburg in northern Bavaria. The old centre of town is crisscrossed with little narrow streets and alleyways. It’s by necessity that one ends up arm in arm!
For more photos of roads, alleys, driveways, paths … go to Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
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