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Go Home!
We were standing on the ramparts of the ruins of Castle Lindenfels in the Odenwald when somebody needed point out to us where we really belonged. The sunbeam pointed directly to the Wachenburg, about 20km in the distance.
Do Donkey’s Have Dermatones?
I guess they must.
Literally this translates as “Upon-Donkey-Skin”, a fairly famous wine estate in the Palatium in Germany. The story how the village got its name is quite complicated and it involves a donkey, a hat, plague and quarantine.
No Two Faces Look Alike
There is scientific evidence that the diversity in human faces came about as an evolutionary advantage.
Hurra! Hurra! Der Kobold mit dem roten Haar!
This Kobold is known to children in Germany since the 1960s. His name is Pumuckl and he lives with a carpenter in Munich. He first appeared in a successful children’s radio series in the early sixites, and shortly thereafter there were books about him. He became a lot more famous with his own tv series in the 1980s – it was filmed with live actors and Pumuckl was drawn in as a cartoon and voiced by a famous German actor, Hans Clarin. Many famous German actors appeared in the series and the series has aged well.
He even has an English wikipedia entry: Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl
I crocheted this a few years back for our grandson. And here is a mural – Pumuckl loves to turn up at playgrounds:
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