Tag: mural

Dancing elephants

Oct 2, 2017 · 3 Comments ·

Heidelberger Schlossquell

This is an old one, found on the side of a house inside the Heidelberg zoo, advertising the local beer and obviously, with a zoo theme.

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Reverse Yellow Submarine

Sep 4, 2017Sep 9, 2017 · 2 Comments ·

06 a

06 b 06 c

Another house. This one is from Bensheim, Germany – about as far away from any ocean or sea that you can get in Germany.

Maybe that’s exactly why they liked the fish theme – who knows?

It is opposite a public swimming pool, though.

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Youth centre in the pink forest

Aug 29, 2017Sep 9, 2017 · 2 Comments ·

Jugendhaus Bad Wildbad

What I liked about this one is that although the mural is on the side facing the road, the whole house is tinted pink. Saw this one in Bad Wildbad, a town in the northern Black Forest.

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Jugendhaus Bad Wildbad

All you need is a socket

Aug 21, 2017Aug 21, 2017 · 5 Comments ·

“Bei uns kommt der Strom aus der Steckdose” = Our electricity comes from the socket. This was familiar saying in the 80s in Germany. I don’t know the origin but nowadays it is used disparagingly to characterise an attitude of people who want (and waste) electricity mindless of how it is produced. This transformer substation reminded me of this phrase although I’m sure the electricity company meant to illustrate that they are the ones supplying electricity to all households. The houses are typical for the region, the Odenwald in Germany.

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If you gotta go, you gotta go

Jul 11, 2017Jul 11, 2017 · 10 Comments ·

9 outhouses e — One of a series of creative toilet seats in a hotel in Chodovar, Czech Republic. Useless fact: In German, toilet seats are called “loo spectacles”.

9 outhouses d — Mural in Oberursel, Germany.

9 outhouses a

9 outhouses b — Not quite state-of-the-art outhouse on an allotment. And another useless fact: outhouses in German are called “Plumpsklos”, a loo into which somethings drops. Admit it, you wanted to know that.

I’ve used the painted wooden toilet seats once before in a photo challenge: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/wcs-with-water-and-without/