It’s cold when the statues in the cemetery are shivering.
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Much Obliged
And here are my special thanks to — oh, you know who you are!
Let’s Seal this with a Kiss
The seal who swims (used to swim?) regularly from the sea up the river Wear past the National Glass Centre in Sunderland.
Since the above seal is barely recognisable (yet it was the only one which ever let me photograph it) I thought I better offer a close up of a colourful seal as well:
The seal of the university of Prague, featuring Karel IV, King of Bohemia, and Wenceslaus, patron saint of Bohemia.
Cold Surfing
In Munich, the intrepid surfers had a different idea. They surf on a permanently standing wave in the Eisbach, a part of the river Isar, in the middle of town:
Isn’t It Romantic?
Waldeinsamkeit is a German romantic concept, usually explained as “solitude in a forest”. The poem in this hut, which is dedicated to a former head forester, quotes all the clichés of the romantics’ conception of forest versus town.
It translates (more or less) like this: If you feel too crowded in the town, and too distressed at home, then leave the pressing throng behind and escape into the quiet woods. Allow yourself to settle down here. Calmness and woodland solitude creates peace, and unites once again what keeps the wicked world apart.
But still has another meaning and I wouldn’t be true to myself if I wouldn’t add this:
Is it still there?
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