Monday Window
Tag: Germany
She’s in their corner
While I was still contemplating whether a corner should be inward or outward I came across this pic in my archive.
This madonna on the outside of the museum of local history in Schifferstadt has the best of both worlds corners.
I found a wolf
Another find for my “car plates can make words in Germany” collection.
German licence plates are organised like this: the first letters (1 or 2 but not more than 3) indicate the town where the care is registered. Then there are another two letters (sometimes one but this is rare) and a number, usually four digits. Until a 20 years ago or so you just took the letters and numbers you were allocated but nowadays you can pick the letters and numbers for a small fee (something like 10 Euro). The only requirements are that no other plate has the same combination and a few letters and number combinations are forebodden because they have a meaning connected with national socialism).
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a dead fretter
I was surprised by this … attractive? … sculpture in the middle of a vineyard – in recognition to the victory over the vine fetter (or grape phylloxera) which threatened to obliterate all European viniculture.
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There is always a reason to smile
you just have to find it.
Well, I didn’t find it here. Took this photo to tell our son: Clean up or else! (last on the card on my phone)
But I did find the smile here when on a bicycle tour with my sister yesterday. It was, I must admit, before we found out that there would be another 10km to get home after having already ridden for 30km. For those who don’t know: the Odenwald is not flat, even on an e-bike you have to pedal hard occasionall). (last on the card on my camera).
For Brian’s Last on the Card in February
Winter and summer, architectural and natural, real and artificial
The viewing platform over the river Neckar in Ladenburg. Architectural symmetry.
A pansy. Natural, i.e. not quite perfect symmetry.
I feel like a drone
Wordless Wednesday
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A confined area
My childhood was spent pretty much within the triangle of three different old medieval towers, called “Blauer Hut” (blue hat due to its original slate roof, now long gone), “Roter Turm” (red tower, so called because of the reddish sandstone used) and “Hexenturm” (witches’ tower … Continue reading A confined area
You have to pay your dues
If you want to visit Burg Rheinstein you have to pay your dues. The Middle Rhine Valley is very narrow. Parking is at a premium. So the parking below the castle is limited to 2 hours and it costs 2 Euros. Then you have to … Continue reading You have to pay your dues
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