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
Monday Portrait
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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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I have never been very patriotic to Germany, nor Baden-Württemberg. But I do feel very close to the Kurpfalz.
Geographically, the Electoral of the Palatinate centres around the towns of Heidelberg and Mannheim. For me it is more a linguistic area than a geographical one. Dialects are on the wane and are less pronounced but they still exist. I hear myself surrounded by Kurpfälzisch.
This is the current coat of arms but the Electorate dates back to the to the Holy Roman Empire, long before it became the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1512, and hence it has changed a lot over the years.
We name ships, restaurants, theatres, wines, beers, and many more things accordingly. Many town crests feature the Palatinate lion and the Bavarian white and blue fusils.
We even have our own excellencies. The wine queen and her two princesses, their titles proudly displayed on the domiciles of the sovereigns.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Surroundings
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You get the six word title but you can’t expect me to be quiet on this topic.
Even without the curry, us Germans have a very close relationship with sausages. The biggest wine fest in the world happens each year in September in Bad Dürkheim in the Palatinate and is called “Wurstmarkt“. The people of the town built a large, detailed fountain in the central square called the “Wurstmarktbrunnen”.
I rather prefer this rapproachment over a sausage than Brezhnev and Honecker.
Incidentally, Honecker was born and grew up pretty close to the Wurstmarkt, namely in the Saarland. Where my son and grandson had the best currywurst EVER when we were on holiday there. They still talk about it a year later – even though the Ruhrpott (the area around Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund et.al.) and Berlin vie for that honour.
Definitely serious business. Do not disturb!!
Incidentally, I saw a report on TV where they asked Asian people on holiday in Germany what they thought about currywurst. Their reaction to this very German dish was hilarious.
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Respect the past Live for the present Shape the future
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Time
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But are these awnings? Shutters? Dormers? Is it a roof? Or a facade?
It is the Carl-Bosch-Museum in Heidelberg. Carl Bosch was a German engineer, and chemist, and a Nobel Prize laureate. The technical museum is situated behind the Heidelberg Castle with quiet a curious mixture of exhibits. Some are from his private life, exhibits from his time working with high pressure apparatus are displayed on the outside, mainly because of their size, and then there is the modern building featured here which houses a wonderful collection of technical experiments, designed for children but equally fascinating for adults.
The building does justice to this innovate approach.
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