I’ve just returned from an awesome long weekend with friends in the Black Forest. I haven’t had time to sort any of the photos yet but I can give you this oddball find. We were an international group with many native English speakers and we had a great laugh trying to find out how to pronounce topogganing.
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Birds missing vital parts in the following pictures.
Stork minus a leg.
Duck also minus a leg.
Gray goose without a beak.
Duck also without a beak.
Canadian goose without a neck, or possibly without a head.
Two ducks without any upper body parts.
Pigeon without head.
Swan also without head.
Flamingo without neither neck nor head.
Cockerel without colour.
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The island of Krk. In front of Croatia in the Adriatic Sea. In front of garbage containers. But even that is picturesque. And what time to have a photo of Croatia who later today will play France for the football (soccer) world championship in their first world cup final ever [edit: they didn’t win, but they were in the final!]
An equally incongruous place for a garbage container, in the old southern cemetery in Munich.
Not an odd location but an odd inscription: the town’s finest.
Just to round off this rubbish collection, here is Oscar the Grouch who lives in a garbage can on Sesame Street.
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What extravagance! Two weathercocks on the roof.
I’m glad that one of them moved so I could tell which is which.
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A few years ago I came across this sign in Frankfurt. I found it intriguing and yes, odd. I had no idea what that animal, if it actually is one, was supposed to be. I’ve since seen a few more signs with the same creature in different poses, unfortunately I don’t always carry my camera.
Yesterday – finally! – I found out the story behind it. The creature was sitting happily on a pedestrian bridge crossing the river Nidda.
And a sign beneath it proclaimed it to be the GrünGürtel-Tier.
This is a play on words which needs to be explained: Gürteltier is a actually an armadillo but literally a belt anmial, Grüngürtel is the greenbelt surrounding a city for urban recreation, hence this is the GreenBelt Animal. Rather whimsical, I think.
Here is some more information if you are interested but only in German: https://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=4132 .
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This group of teenage gosslings caught my eye yesterday. They’re obviously siblings and haven’t yet learned to scare others away when there is food around.
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I came upon this odd structure yesterday. It’s on a company’s ground which has just changed its corporate colours (flags everywhere!). The bright colours urged me to fool around a bit.
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… I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride it where I like.
Need I say that the lyrics are from Queen?
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