This is the entrance to the adult education institute in our town, i.e. where I work. It’s a building from the late 19th century and the portal has all the twelve zodiac signs in sandstone on it. I’m a taurus – which is cute ‘coz … Continue reading Signs of the Zodiac
Thursday Trios
Student fraternities are different from Studentenverbindungen in Germany. In Heidelberg they have villas or mansions at their headquarters – the crest on top is a sign of it. They are today on prime property and could be sold for millions but they are usually so well off financially that they don’t have to sell.
This one is opposite the famous Heidelberg castle on the other side of the river Neckar.
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This mural in Mannheim by Luigi Toscano is called “Against Forgetting” and shows two concentration camp survivors. On the woman’s face is written: “We have to remember the past but we mustn’t live in it.” She is a symbol for surviving, not forgetting, but moving on. She is a heroine.
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Two opposites: outdoor shopping in Valledoria in Sardinia – indoor shopping in Forchheim in Franken.
And here is the competition – CBD instead of tobacco. And dolls, lotsa dolls.
Only for window shopping if you don’t want to bring home dust collectors in your home.
And inside my favourite kind of store in Bourg-en-Bresse. Not just tables and tables stacked with books but also with notes of the booksellers and their personal critiques (the good books get little hearts).
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All the others are painted. They deceive the eye, don’t they?
This is the name of the craftsman and/or artist who designed and executed this trompe-l’œil.
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Lately a lot of the local power distribution boxes have been painted in blue and black, the colours of a football club in the next town. The ultra fans of this club have stuck really ugly and offensive stickers on every possible surface. And now, the power boxes. But for once somebody (the town officials? – I don’t know who) has reacted and painted our town’s crest on the surfaces. A major improvement.
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The Feldbergpass is in the south of the Black Forest in Germany, the highest pass in the Black Forest and the second highest in Germany. And there is an inn right on top of it.
One might not be enough. FOWC with Fandango: Die
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