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.
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:
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?
Many hoverflies pretend to be dangerous by sporting black and yellow stripes, nature’s warning sign. Yet they have no sting and cannot bite.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Bluff
In the old part of the town of Bensheim the streetlamps are decorated with cut-outs from local stories, old and new.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Lamp
This sculpture called “Death by the Midgard Serpent” by Wolfram Diehl is displayed near the German Dragon Museum in Lindenfels. Jörmungandr or the World Serpent was indeed a lethal creature who would destroy the world simply by letting go of its tail. It could also kill with its fangs and its poison, and would in the end kill Thor during the events of Ragnarök, the end of the world as we know it.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Lethal
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