The phone area code for Stuttgart is 0711. Stuttgart is the official capital of Baden-Württemberg and the in-official capital of Swabia tying in nicely with yesterday’s seven Swabians.
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Tag: Germany
It Won’t ever Be quiet in a Smithy
and what would a horse going by without the clippety-clop? Incidentally, a horse shoe is a hoof iron in German. Clop – clop – clop – clippety – clop – clop – clop – clop – clippety – clop – clop … Can you hear it?
Double-dippety – dip – dip – dip
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Even Cemeteries Need Maps
The old cemetery of our town. With no less (and no more) than four local celebrities: an industrialist with a legacy of one of the richest families in Germany today, a progressive educationalist who founded a school, an almost forgotten author who was quite famous nationwide in 1923, and a revolutionary innkeeper from almost 200 years ago.
It’s nice to have maps around to show you what’s what and possibly who’s who.
Frankfurt, Today
Not easy to photograph only sky when you’re on the ground in a big city. But it’s a bit of blue and bit of clouds and it looks a lot warmer than it actually was.
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Silent Sunday
When a Folly Is a Created Sham
No, this is not an old castle ruin but a folly built in the mid 19 hundreds in the Verna Park in Rüsselsheim. Complete with seemingly crumbling walls and a painted view of a romantic river valley. Somebody created a sham! Definition: A folly is … Continue reading When a Folly Is a Created Sham
Seven in Fairytales II
Another Grimm fairytale (Who am I kidding? I only have Grimm fairytales in this series).
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. These are from the Märchenwald (fairytale forest) in the Obrunner Schlucht, near Höchst im Odenwald.
And here is the potted version:
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No Stars Just Stripes
The ultimate in horizontal stripes. Modelled here by the Dalton brothers rounded up by Lucky Luke. If you don’t know, Lucky Luke is a comic strip, published in books, by the Belgian Morris. It’s worldwide the most successful Wild West comic, was first published in … Continue reading No Stars Just Stripes
Seven in Fairytales I
This is the beginning of my mini series within Seven for September. 7 was always an important number in western cultures. It is often considered a lucky number (not so in some East Asian countries, though). It is the addition of 3 and 4 (3 in Christian culture signifying the Holy Trinity, 4 signifying the four elements: fire, earth, water, and air). According to the Hebrew bible the world was created in 7 days, we still organise our modern life in weeks of 7 days. Adding the facing sides of a die always makes 7, and we had the 7 wonders of the ancient world (the modern wonders are only a copy).
And of course, 7 is often found as a special number in fairytales. I decided to have this series directly after yesterday’s seven-year-old. Although fairy tales were not originally created for children they soon became the main audience for them.
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My first illustration of a Grimm fairytale is the story of The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats as depicted on a half-timbered house in Michelstadt im Odenwald which houses a toy store on the groundfloor.
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