Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Where I Stand.
Standpunkt in German has the double meaning of the point where I am standing and point of view. This particular standing point is on a hill near Mörfelden, south of Frankfurt, and one has a clear view of the city’s skyline.
Linked to Simply Anything.
In this part of the Odenwald, house fronts are often covered with wood shingles. In the old part of Michelstadt, they stand side by side with half timbered houses. I don’t know what the original colours were, but this one looked incredibly pretty in powder blue and white, the white flowers giving it almost a monochrome look.
Linked with Simply Garden.
These are allotment gardens, next to a little public garden or park in Michelstadt, Germany.
Linked with Simply Lines.
Linked to Simply Reflections.
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Aldous Huxley
This is the Red Mosque in the palace gardens of Schwetzingen in Germany. The mosque was built in 18th century and is today the last surviving of similar constructions that were en vogue in Europe then. It was never meant as a place of prayer but rather to illustrate the common search for principles of reason in the spirit of enlightenment. Hence, the words written on the walls may or may not be correct in Arabic, their origin lies rather in Western culture or in how the West perceived Oriental culture.
Although it is a wrong image of a foreign culture, it was done with good intentions and the means and knowledge available at the time.
Incidentally, although it has nothing to do with Islam as religion, it is one of the most popular spots for wedding photographs by Turkish and Arab couples in the region.
Linked to Travel with Intent where you can find more photos inspired by the Huxley quote.
This is linked to Simply Circles. Circles in a church window in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Linked to Simply Looking Up. I was looking up at a look out point over the river Neckar, in Ladenburg, Germany.
During lunchtime surfers queue up and wait their turn to surf on the standing wave in the Eisbach, a man made side arm of the river Isar in the middle of the city of Munich.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: water.
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