than wine trinkers amongst coypus in Germany.
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Tag: #FOWC
Different Times, Different Place
It might have been an easier time when police and public were more affable in their dealings with each other. It might also be due to the region – the people of the Rhineland are known for their jovial demeanour.
These are two sculptures (2 of 6, distributed in the centre of Koblenz) in honour of historic local characters, here market-woman Ringelstein and Constable Otto. They stand next to each other, Otto is taking down a complaint by Mistress Ringelstein.
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Proof of a Little Folly
I’ve just come home from the post office. Two months ago I ordered a little trinket (a stand for my glasses). Nothing major. I realised it was coming from overseas because it was supposed to take a couple of weeks to arrive. No biggy. The couple of weeks stretched to a couple of months but as I didn’t really need the watchamacallit – no biggy. Then we weren’t home when the parcel, or rather parcelet, arrived and the mailman left a card. It took me a full week to collect it – because I had to go to a different post office I normally go to, one which has opening hours which don’t correspond with my working hours, and to top it all there is a huge building site with roads torn up and strange one-way streets for the duration.
Anyway, I collected it today. And nobody told me before that I had to pay customs on the item. 1.68 € (not much overall but on a purchase price of 9.00 € …). Anyway, that was customs. Add to that 6.00 € “delivery flat-rate”, which I’ve never had to pay before.
So now I have a receipt for a silly purchase which taught me the lesson of not ordering something like that ever again.
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Howyadoing?
Anybody not from the area around Frankfurt would look quite flabbergasted if greeted with “Ei gude wie?” It’s in the dialect of the area. We live barely 80km to the South, we understand the words but would never use them ourselves.
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