A giant sequoia. In the Exotenwald in Weinheim there are many specimen of these wooldland giants, to my knowledge the largest collection in Germany if not Europe.
For One Word Sunday: giant. Have a look at other interpretations of the word giant on Debbie’s site Travel with Intent.
This is looking up in the dome of the Red Mosque in the castle grounds in Schwetzingen, Germany. This mosque was build in 18th century and never intended as a place of religious worship, rather as an expression of the time’s fascination with all thing oriental.
For One Word Sunday: circle. More circular, round or rounded photos can be found here.
I had to look up oojamaflip. Once I knew what it was I realised that I know a few synonyms for this expression, they are:
doodad, oojah, whatchamacallit, whatsit, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingum, thingy.
So how do you call these pull out drawer thingies for storing bottles and whatsits?
More oojamaflips can be found at One Word Sunday.
For One Word Sunday: angle.
It was an odd angle to take the picture. The building has many angular features. And the whole building has a strange angle to it: it is the only accredited Lithuanian secondary school in Western Europe. Subjects are taught in German and Lithuanian. The building was formerly Castle Rennhof (in Hüttenfeld near Mannheim, Germany) until the school moved there in 1954.
More photos with angles can be found here.
Who??! — Better known as Carl Benz, the inventor of the first viable automobile. This portrait of his is in Ladenburg, close to Mannheim, Germany, where he made his invention and located to – privately as well as his factory – in 1904.
This is for One Word Sunday. More who? photos can be found here.
When we came across this fellow, sitting quietly next to the river Ilmenau in Lüneburg, an American who happened to be standing next to me, felt the need to inform me – quite patronizingly – that this was a famous American writer and he wasn’t quite sure whether I might have heard of him. I informed him – equally condescendingly – that I had read most everything that Mr Samuel Longhorne Clemens had written (which is not a lie, his collected works in English and German are amongst my most cherished books). I added “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” He recognised the quote and we proceeded to have an interesting conversation about Mark Twain.
For One Word Sunday: celebrity.
For more celebrity shots click here.
I’m just not in a wretched mood today. Neither was my friend who tried to copy the wretched facial expression of the statue and failed – miserably.
For One Word Sunday. More utterly miserable, wretched photos to be found here.
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