Houses were built closer together, streets were narrower. Today’s inhabitants do the best they can. But sometimes pedestrians and cars compete for right of way. Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Streets
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Pull in Your Tummies!
This particular alley is from Neustadt an der Weinstraße – where the name says it all: look at the vines overhead. Cars and walkers have to share but consideration widens the path so that everybody gets through.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Narrow
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He Needs Must Travel Through this Hollow Way
The title is a line from Friedrich Schillers drama Wilhelm Tell which is known by every German, I dare say (even if some might not know what the source is): “Durch diese hohle Gasse muss er kommen“. It’s quoted often, sometimes more or less appropriately.
Closer, hold me closer …
To get away from clogged highways we stopped for lunch and a walk in the small town of Günzburg in northern Bavaria. The old centre of town is crisscrossed with little narrow streets and alleyways. It’s by necessity that one ends up arm in arm!
For more photos of roads, alleys, driveways, paths … go to Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
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