If you want to walk up to Frankenstein castle you can take the long and winding road or you can go straight up. Which I did. When I reached the top I was so out of breath that I was completely silent.
Silent Sunday
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Tag: Darmstadt
A Teaser
I came upon the entrance of this park the other day (while on a run with Hashers, no camera, no time to even hold the phone properly) and was in awe. I’m also a little bit ashamed because I lived close to Darmstadt for almost … Continue reading A Teaser
The Yellow House with many Windows
Weekly Prompts had their monthly colour challenge yesterday. The colour was yellow. The prompt for Debbie’s One Word Sunday next week will be yellow. So I searched for yellow in my archive and came upon this yellow apartment building with many windows in Darmstadt. Perfect … Continue reading The Yellow House with many Windows
Twig by Twig
I thought I’d try something different for this challenge. A few weekends ago I went to the Waldkunstweg in Darmstadt, the forest art path. There are art objects made of mostly natural materials on display along a forest ramble. This one is called “Forest House” … Continue reading Twig by Twig
Art in the Forest
I’ve been walking the Waldkunstpfad (Forest Art Walk) in Darmstadt and the exhibits are often intriguing. This particularly was as their was no plaque to give the name of the piece and the artist. What do you think it could be? Bearing in mind that … Continue reading Art in the Forest
Stepping Ever Upward
Paula references W.B.Yeats in her April Words of Wisdom with a quote where he sees life as a spiral leading upward. The German poet Hermann Hesse, just twelve years Yeats’ junior, expressed a very similar thought when he said: We are not going in circles, … Continue reading Stepping Ever Upward
Long Tall Louie
The people of Darmstadt put their first Grand Duke on a really high pole. A really long one. They loved him so much that instead of calling him by his official name Ludewig I they call him “Langer Lui” (Long Louis) still today.
Here is slightly closer look of Lui.
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Long Items
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I’m a Fan of Monuments and Pigeons
At least, when they are just sitting there (the monument looked clean all round).
This is the Alice monument for the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine in Darmstadt. Incidentally, she was the second eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary of Great Britan and Irleand which – if my thinking is correct – made her the great-great aunt of Queen Elizabeth II and also the maternal great-grandmother of her husband, Prince Philip. Her memory is alive and well in Darmstadt as the hospital she founded in 1869 is still going strong; I myself was a patient there for a couple of days a decade ago.
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