Tag: German

I’m not a fan

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I’ve had this photo for a while. It’s on an art walk (art??) in a forest near here. I’ve never been a patriot in the strictest sense even though I think there quite a few things I like about living in Germany.

As the football (sic!) world cup is underway at the moment it’s possibly a good time to post this. Although I’ve never been a rah-rah football fan, I watch the occasional match (more like the occasional 10 minutes) with my husband who would much rather watch rugby if it were on German televsion but he is interested having played football himself when he was young. However, I will not watch this world cup. I’m appalled at the whole corrupt system surrounding the cup, FIFA and the US. I am even more appalled by the politics by the United States, like forbidding entry to certain players from Iran or the fans of complete nations like Ivory Coast.

But if you want to wave flags, even the German one, here you go:

Thursday Trios

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Falter

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Since it prooved quite difficult to find a photo in my archive that illustrated the word “to falter” I dediced to go German instead. Falter is an alternative word for Schmetterling or in English: butterfly. You might see a similarity to the Italian farfalle. And … Continue reading Falter

I’m a Fan of Ancient Toilets

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Inspired by Geriatrix’ toilet signs last week I consulted my archive and came up with these:

Haselburg
Windeck
Tiefburg
Oppède-le-vieux

Arranged according to age: 

A Roman toilet from around the 2nd century in a villa rustica near Höchst im Odenwald.  
The Windeck toilet with a long drop built around 1100 AD in Weinheim.  
The Tiefburg in Handschuhsheim is about 200 younger but features the same kind of jutty toilet. 
And the simple hole in a stone toilet in Oppède-le-vieux, also from the middle ages.

I’m a Fan of … #212

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What Did Bob Wish When the Fox Told Him to Duck?

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German car number plates work like this:

  • the first letters (1-3) denote the area (B = Berlin, M = Munich, RÜD = Rüdesheim, i.e. the less letters the bigger the town)
  • the next one or two letters are random
  • as are the numbers at the back (four maximum)

You used to take what you got but these days you can choose the middle letters and numbers. Lots of people drive around with their initials and their birthdates or -years.

But it’s much more fun if the plates make words. Sometimes German words but English is popular because the words are often shorter. Or people might not realise that they drive around with an expletive in a foreign language (particularly people in Fulda or Dieburg).

I like to collect photos of license plate words (sometimes with wonky spelling).

And with a bit of luck, they even make a story.

I’m ready to duck.

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Licence Plates