Tag: Mainz

Never go upstairs empty handed

is apparently a saying of English nannies working in the US according to the web. It is also advice that Meryl Streep credits her mother for (I can’t find a source but I remember this from an interview with her). Some stairs just seem to have been built to illustrate this.

I add a photo I’ve used before (as a square top) to drive the point home:

UPsquare #29.

One, two, three, … many!

2005 chimney b

Counting chimneys in Mainz.

2005 chimney c

What’s the collective noun for chimneys?  A smoke of chimneys?  I know that the collective noun for chimney sweeps is sweepdom.

2005 chimney e

I found counting chimneys much more fascinating in England and Scotland, here in Edinburgh.

2005 chimney d

How many do you count?

2005 chimney f

To counterbalance all these huddles of chimneys here is an impressive solitary one.

Schornsteinfeger

And what would a post about chimneys be without at least one sweep.

Linked to Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Counting Chimneys.

000 joy-banner

There is no elevator

016 stairs 3 (480x640)
Stairs leading to the castle ruin Windeck in Weinheim.

Bavaria
Stairs leading up to the statue of Bavaria from the Oktoberfestplatz in Munich.

016 stairs 1 (480x640)
Stairs in Mainz leading to the Oberstadt.

016 stairs 4 (640x480)
Stairs in the dunes behind Bamburgh Castle.

Stairs are paths, too.

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  More paths, streets, roads, etc. can be found here.