A little bit over a week ago I spent a few days in the Black Forest. The northern part is less in altitude than the southern part but at the right spot the view is still impressive. The Rhine flows in the distance and on … Continue reading 1000 Metres Above the Rhine Valley
Mannheim and its surrounding areas, the hills of the Odenwald on the right side of the Rhine, and the hills of the Palatinate on the left Rhine side. Cellpic Sunday
you can’t see forever and ever but still pretty far.
This is the view from the Tromm, one of the highest mountains / hills in the Odenwald towards the west. The Wachenburg, a fortress I normally look up to, can be seen in the middle and beyond is the Rhine Valley. On a clear day one can see the hills of the Palatinate in the distance on the other side of the river.
The same view on another day at a different time of day:
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Midweek Monochrome
The (almost) accurate quote from Goethe’s Faust describes it best. There is this side of me, enamored by the rolling hills of the Odenwald,
and then there is the other side, that loves the excitement of the city of Frankfurt with its highrise buildings and modern side of living.
And this is the compromise, I guess. A view from one side of the Upper Rhine valley, where I live, all the way across to the hills of the Palatinate (Pfalz), with the twin cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen on either side of the Rhine in between. The distance from the Odenwald to the other side is about 50 kilometres at this point.
This is linked to A Photo a Week: View.
The tenth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
… when I go round on a Ferris wheel (poem by Ava Courtney).
Looking out from the top of Neustadt an der Weinstraße towards the Pfälzer Wald (Palatinate Forest) in southwest Germany.
And looking down.
And looking over to the station, past some more adventurous revellers.
One Word Sunday‘s theme was elevation.
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