Both are examples of Aachen, the city where Charlemagne is buried and where for about half a millenia the German kings where crowned. It took me ages that Aachen is the city meant when the French talk of “Aix-la-Chapelle”. The narrow buildings are near the … Continue reading The Wide and the Narrow in Aachen
Värikollaasit #442
The above is a David Hockney quote. Two buildings from Darmstadt. Two houses from the Black Forest. Two little huts from the Odenwald. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colourful Buildings
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Modern Buildings
Last week I drove a mere 4 km from home and found out that there is a castle in the second village down the road. I never knew. It’s called Schloss Wiser and is still owned by the family who had it built in 1710. It’s not open to the public cause the family lives there on occasion but when I approached the gates opened. I didn’t go inside the court yard though but I took a picture of the ungated view.
So if the owner and resident is an Earl – what do you call the building then? A palace? A castle? A stately home? Does it matter? Not really, except to a translator who wants to get it right.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Buildings
And another colour collage for Värikollasit based on these colours:
You can check out Värikollaasit for more colour collages with the same theme and find another one of mine, here.
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