Dawn from The Day After asked to see Horizons for this week’s Monochrome Madness. Show us your lines in the distance, either linking to Dawn or to Monochrome Madness directly. The best horizons, the ultimate horizons are to be found at the seaside (NB: turn … Continue reading Horizontally Challenged
Being an inn with a deep heritage doesn’t mean you have to have beautiful windows.
The Apfelweinwirtschaft Buchscheer (the name is an old name for pasture) is located in Frankfurt Sachsenhausen near the tram and train station Luisa. It’s a traditional inn where one is not able to order a beer, they only serve Ebbelwoi (the German kind of cider). It has a lovely outside sitting area under large trees and the inside is charmingly old but the window are … well, decidedly plain.
The inn Schmärrnche in Frankfurt Bornheim has a similiar long history to look back on. The windows are not particulary elaborate either but at least they tried with the trompe l’oeil sandstone frames.
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pronounced: mine When I saw Leanne’s Monochrome Madness post today I thought of the only skyscrapers I know in Germany (the 12 tallest buildings in Germany are in Frankfurt, then there is one in Berlin, and then there are more Frankfurt highrise buildings). Here is … Continue reading These Towers are Main
A view from above on a village. In contrast, the lights of a city (Frankfurt am Main): Talking of Frankfurt, this is the asparagus, the tv tower of Frankfurt: Again contrasting this with a street light from a smaller town: To round this off, back … Continue reading Town Lights vs Country Lights
Wordless Wednesday
Who (or what?) lurketh in the forest? A children’s playground – a huge Viking or … something, forming the frame for the slide. Except … except it looks … I can’t. I just can’t. I don’t know who was gawking more – me or the … Continue reading Two-Way Gawking
Ignoring the six Words – I tried to find out a bit about this sculpture. It’s to be found in the Frankfurt Zoo and the litle I could find out about it is the title: Sitzender Jüngling, or sitting young man. The artist is Wilhelm Riedisser, it was created in 1903 (but that might not have been the year it was displayed at the zoo), the medium is bronze.
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The old airport of Frankfurt. What a place to show for “conservation”! When the Frankfurt airport, the one that is today the hub of German air traffic, was built in the 1930s, Frankfurt already had an airport, near Bonames, an old part of the city. … Continue reading A Good Place to Rest
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