The tech is in the bike itself, in the cell phone on the handlebar, in the power bank in front of the handlebar, in my bluetooth earbuds – and I use all of it for transport!
Linked to On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Let your tech transport you.
Tag: Odenwald
Honey, I kind of shrunk the kids!
“Something of the kind” – The Felsenmeer (sea of stones) looks like pebbles with beetles crawling over it.
Square 9 for the KindaSquare Challenge in October.
A place with a view
For me, it helps if there is a bit of an elevation and a view across the land – as is the case here, once again in the Odenwald: overlooking a valley to the next line of hills.
Linked to Friendy Friday: Quiet places.
More than just a hole in the ground
This toilet seat is of Roman origin, in a villa rustica excavated near the village of Hummetroth in the Odenwald. Like other Roman villas of the same time this one sported many amenities like a bath house and underfloor heating which must have been the height of luxury in the 2nd century surrounded by barbarians on all side.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Hole.
A dammed valley
This reservoir in the Odenwald, the Marbach Stausee, features a unique structure in the middle. I’m sure it has something to do with the lake’s function but I’ve not found a detailed explanation why it is there – except for looking strange and unique, especially with its reflection in the still waters.
Linked to Friday Fun: Unique.
Her place is on her horse
Rider and horse stand by the roadside, very unassuming. The size is deceptive as the figure is not even a metre high (discounting the pedestal). I couldn’t find anything about the artist.
Seen in Heiligkreuz, a village, little bigger than a hamlet, in the Odenwald.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Carvings, sculptures and statues.
4th dimension
“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert
The quote by Flaubert is not only applicable to space but also to time. This basilica dates back to the 9th century, one of the few remnants of Carolingian architecture north of the Alps.
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by Flaubert’s quote, click here.
Twin windows
All these twin windows are from Steinbach, a small village which is part of the small town of Michelstadt im Odenwald. One can see that many of the older houses have shingles on the face of the buildings which is typical for the area.
And last not least the windows in the 1200-year-old basilica in the village, designed by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne. They are reinforced today and would not have had those bars in Einhard’s time.
Linked to Monday Window where more windows can be found.
From the shadows of time
German doesn’t recogonise a difference between shadow and shade, it’s both Schatten to Germans.
I happen to come across this lovely spot today. To sit in the shade of two majestic linden trees
and look onto the 1200-year-old Einhard basilica, one of very few buildings dating back to the Carolingan area north of the Alps,
and then to go inside and marvel at the shadows which were the same ones looked on by the visitors of the basilica when it was newly built.
Linked to Friendly Friday: Shadows.
Alarm bell and hose drying tower
Six words that are only one word in German: Feuerschlauchtrockenturmglocke:
Linked to Six Word Saturday. For more six words and accompanying photos, click here.
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