Near Erbach in the Odenwald is a ravine, called Brudergrund (literally translated – which one really shouldn’t do – “brother-ravine” or “brother gully”). It’s an open deer park (i.e. openly accessible) with fallow deer and red deer. FOWC with Fandango: Brother
What does an exclipse look from a spacecraft close to another planet, I wonder. In any case, the onlookers were very happy that it all ended well. I realised that we came woefully unprepared – no chairs, no bubbly, no finger foods … but at … Continue reading One day, the sun was going to eat the moon
That’s the building of the offices of the school where I’m teaching. The course which each immigrant has to take is modular. For students who are not able to write in Latin letters it is 12 moduls to learn to read, write and speak German plus one modul explaining German culture, politics, and history.
NB: It is possibly to just take the test if you speak German and are confident enough to pass the citizenship test (for which there are numerous apps to prepare you).
“Human friendship across state frontiers serve peace” signed by Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Annemarie Renger
France – Germany: From hereditary enemy to finding kinship through twinning citiey and towns.
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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
In this abanoned sculpture park some works have inscriptions in weird German and in Latin. Not being able to speak Latin I tried online translating programmes and got varying results, depending partly on where I define the borders of words (e.g. utosis or ut osis?) or whether I pick English or German as target language.
After 10 minutes of trying to find something definite I’m no longer very keen to find a proper meaning. So here is: Whatever –
NB: This is not a döner or not even a döner box, it’s was a gyros in Greece, a Γύρος, pronounced yee-rohs and NOT gye-ro. FOWC with Fandango: Diet
In Bad Tölz is a house, called “House of Advocates”. In German, an Advokat is a synonym for lawyer or barrister, one who pleads the cause of another. I couldn’t confirm where the name comes from and if it originally had anything to do with lawyers.
Today it is split into an event venue and living apartments. But the various landlords of the house have been advocating performance arts of various kinds since the 1930s.
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on 12 August we had an almost total eclipse of the sun in Germany (89% where we live). We went up a mountain hill and had a unique experience (the next exclipse around here that comes close is outside my life expectancy). The photos in … Continue reading A week ago
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