Tag: Germany

Not the top

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Feldbergturm

The Black Forest is almost synonymous with dark fir forests but its highest mountain, the Feldberg, is curiously bare.  It is the highest mountain in the state of Baden-Württemberg, and the highest in Germany outside of the Alps.  It’s the top of the non-Alpine mountain tops, so to speak.  And this isn’t even the actual top (but close).  I haven’t got pictures of the actual top as 2 years ago, when we had endless, warm, dry days towards the end of summer, we managed to pick the one weekend when it was cold, miserable, foggy, raining and cold.  I went to the top (there is a kind of cairn marking it) but I didn’t take my camera because it would have been either drowned or blown away.

This is my  twenty-ninth square for Becky’s April Square Challenge.

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I’m a fan of rapeseed

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065 rape a

I’m not sure whether I am in favour of the proliferation of rape seed fields all over the country, some grown for being made into oil but the majority made into petrol.  I am also not in favour of the yellow muck that descends on cars and windows during its flowering time.  But I can’t help being fan of the strips of yellow in the rural landscape, of the yellow fields and of the delicate little flowers.

Linked to I’m a fan of … #65.  More fanatical photos can be found linked here.

Divided and misaligned

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Verspannte Teilung
Verspannte Teilung

Verspannte Teilung, a bronze sculpture in Michelstadt im Odenwald.  It’s open to interpretation. If you put a sphere  in a vice and misalign the pieces, you end up with a distorted globe.Verspannte Teilung

For One Word Sunday: Division.

It’s plain sailing

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2017 sailing a

Sailing in the late afternoon on the waters of the mouth of the river Wear.

2017 sailing b

The water glistening, the coast hazy in the background.

And now for something completely  (?) different:

2017 sailing c

Sailing on the river Neckar where it is a mere 120 metres wide, with river cruise ships making the waterway even narrower, this guy showed some real acrobatics.

Linked to Friday Fun: Sailing.

Can I call you Sam?

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Mark Twain

I couldn’t find any evidence that Mark Twain was ever in Lüneburg, although he spent a considerable amount of time in Germany.  But now he sits next to the river Ilmenau in the middle of town and is open to any kind of discussion you would like to have with him.

Mark Twain

What an inspiration an exchange with the man can be!

Linked to One Word Sunday: Inspiration.

 

Windows of a renovated Rathaus

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The townhall (Rathaus) of Lützelsachsen was built from 1674 to 1688 and renovated in 1808.  And then it was renovated during the last couple of years.  And now there are functional windows, old fashioned windows, and modern windows.  Decide for yourself if you think it works.

2015 rathaus f

2015 rathaus e

 

Rathaus

 

Rathaus

This is what it looked like a year ago or so.

2015 rathaus i

And this is what it looks like today.  There is no mayor residing in it anymore since Lützelsachsen became part of the town Weinheim.

Rathaus

And that’s the view from the back with the cars still able to drive underneath the mayor’s former office – with two beautiful windows looking down on traffic.

Linked to Monday Window.