The Odenwald Klub is an organisation which promotes and maintains trails all over this low mountain range.
This is only a small selection, posted on the tower on top of the Tromm with 576 m above sealevel amongst the highest elevations in the Odenwald.
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This house is said to stand on its head. Its name is “Das Haus steht Kopf” (the house standing on its head) and it actually does.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Flapdoodle
It was in 2019 when I went to the last in person seminar. After teaching German to functionally illiterate learners for over three years I had to take a course on how to teach functionally illiterate learners German. The seminar was in Böblingen, south of Stuttgart, over three consecutive weekends.
It was spring and the weather was beautiful on the first Saturday.
In the centre of Böblingen is a lake and I took the lunchbreak to go for a walk.
I don’t remember much about the seminar but that spring day is still present in my mind.
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I am not a big fan of traditional brass bands so I usually avoid the fest tents at the smaller festivals in the area. The bigger festivals have more tents and cater to different music tastes. But they were selling sausages at the local winegrowers’ festival and we were hungry, so we went in.
We were very surprised by the band on the stage. They looked spiffy but not completely different to the more traditional bands. Their music was wonderful, upbeat and boisterous. They were having a lot of fun.
So were we.
Not mine, I’m afraid. But I have a husband, I have two sons, and I’m German. So along the way I picked up some knowledge about German if not much of the enthusiasm that others feel.
Five matches were played in Kaiserslautern (my husband’s hometown) when Germany hosted the World Cup in 2006. In a square near the train station there are ten statues of players from all the teams that played in K’town (that’s what the US soldiers stationed nearby call it). They are slightly larger than life and I think made of papier mâché judging by the yellow-green moss growing on them.
While I do not share this escape route I acknowledge that for many people all over the world it is the perfect escapism.
We’ve had it far too warm for the last few weeks. On Friday evening we could sit outside in t-shirts and it was balmy, like a proper summer evening. We were warned that the weather would change this weekend and I’ve seen on the news there was snow in the north east (about 750km distance) but we had this view on our Sunday stroll and I was wearing a long-sleeved tee. If you told me it was early September or even spring – I would have believed you.
The Sea of Stones near Reichenbach in the Odenwald – according to legend the rocks were thrown by a giant from the opposite hill.
ESA’s Spacelab, called Columbus, was the European Space Agency’s contribution to the International Space Station ISS. A 1:1 model can be seen in the Technikmuseum in Speyer in Germany.
Back and front view. DLR stands for Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Centre for Air and Space Flight)
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In the village with little traffic the children really can use the road to race.
In France the pace is slower but the baguettes need to be carried home.
And how could I not end this post with a photo from eight years ago. Springbok fans in Newcastle when the Rugby World Cup was hosted by England, Scotland, and Wales. Today, Springbok and other rugby fans can be seen in the streets of France, I’m sure.
Cee’s Which Way Challenge: Streets with People in It
That’s the war memorial in my home town. It was erected in 1936 and all the dead of world war I were registered. Except for four of them. It you look closely you see the four last ones on this list, not in alphabetical order and slightly different in colour. It’s because they were Jewish Germans who had fought and died alongside their Christian German comrades. During the Nazi era they were not acknowledged. Their names were added in 1946.
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