Tag: #Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

Schtri, schtra, schtro – de Summerdag is do

Technically these pictures were not taken in summer. But “summer’s day” is celebrated each year on Laetare Sunday, i.e. three weeks before Easter. After a spring parade through town a large snowman is burnt to represent the end of winter.

 

In years gone by the snowman was burnt in the town square. For years, the fire fighters have argued that this is not safe with so many people in the square, close to the burning effigy. Covid gave them the ammunition they needed and now the burning takes place in the gardens of the local castle. This picture is from ten years ago:

Sorry for the title. It’s local dialect.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Summer – Fire

Even the Ultimate One has Forebears

The owner of this big bulky BWM needs to tell everybody that he’s driving a BMW (the car license plate from Berlin is real, I just erased the number and added a BMW logo). In Germany, BMW drivers have the reputation of being posers.

Something this old Isetta from 1950s didn’t need. It was billed as a motor roller mobile and you didn’t need a car driving license for it. Even the police used Isettas. And it is a BWM, essentially.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Ultimate Driving Machine

The First Car

This is the Benz-Haus, the house where Carl Benz lived in Ladenburg once his company had become successful. He built was is considered the first workable automobile in 1886.

From this came the Mercedes Benz car factory which is known worldwide by the three pointed star.

This one adorns a model from the 1930ies standing in the Technik Museum Speyer, about 30 km from Carl Benz’ villa.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Cars or Car Parts