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Pedestrian ways
A few days ago I went to town to do some shopping. At first, there is the walkway from the parking garage to the pedestrian shopping street.
Look to the south.
Look to the south.
And up the stairs.
Now for spending some money.
All done.
And now home!
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Mainhattan
These are all street views of Frankfurt am Main – sometimes jokingly called Mainhattan because it’s the only city in Germany with a discernible skyline and because the river running through is the Main. But there is more to Frankfurt than a few highrise buildings.
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Traces of history
Ladenburg was called Lopodunum in Roman times and an important town in the region. Many streets were named to remember this past. Some of the street signs come with explanations.
Titus Vlavius Vespasianus was Emperor when the first wooden fort was built.
During the time of Emperor Domitian the fort was rebuilt in stone.
Emperor Trajan elevated Lopodunum to a town and is considered the founder.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a Roman poet from Burdigala (Bordaux, France) in the 4th century. In his poem Mosella Lopodunum was mentioned for the first time in a literary text.
Emperor Hadrian ordered the limes in this region built, to safeguard the Roman settlements.
There were to men called Januarius documented in Ladenburg, a decurio (soldier) and a magister pagi (a town official).
Mithras was a Persian, later Roman sun god. A stone relief depicting him was found in Ladenburg.
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After the rain
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How tall will you grow?
In our local forest the sign posts direct you to the different exotic species found. Three sequoia varieties are there, the coast or California redwood (Küstenmammutbaum), the giant redwood (Riesenmammutbaum), and the sequioadendron giganteum (Urweltmammutbaum). One of the unique features of the Exotenwald Weinheim is that not only a few specimen were planted but whole hectares of one kind. When the arboretum was started around 1870 almost 1500 sequoias were planted, most of which survived and are now tall and majestic. With the exception of the Urweltmammutbaum, said to be a living fossil and only discovered in 1941 – but there are a few of those as well, planted in 2011 and apparently thriving.
Many of the paths are wide and well maintained, perfect for a stroll rather than a hike.
But it is fun to leave those and turn down (or up) narrower
and darker paths.
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A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
The title is an African proverb.
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There’s always another path
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Where Romans no more tread
Cilurnum was a fort on Hadrian’s Wall, today it is known as Chester’s Roman Fort in Northumberland. The roads leading through the fort and trading post can still be made out amongst the excavated foundations.
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