Tag: Wandbild

A zest for life

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I seem to find these more traditional murals around here.

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This one – from the old part of town of “Newtown an der Weinstraße” in Rhineland Pallatium, Germany – is called “Phantastische Allegorie zu Neustadt und der Lebensfreude” (Phantastic allegorie about Neustadt and zest for life).  It was created by Werner Holz for H. Grübius (both names appear in the picture).  I’m not sure about the date, I believe I can read 1990something, the artist died in 1991.

More Monday Murals can be found here.

Dancing elephants

Heidelberger Schlossquell

This is an old one, found on the side of a house inside the Heidelberg zoo, advertising the local beer and obviously, with a zoo theme.

More Monday Murals can be found here.

All you need is a socket

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“Bei uns kommt der Strom aus der Steckdose” = Our electricity comes from the socket.  This was familiar saying in the 80s in Germany. I don’t know the origin but nowadays it is used disparagingly to characterise an attitude of people who want (and waste) electricity  mindless of how it is produced.  This transformer substation reminded me of this phrase although I’m sure the electricity company meant to illustrate that they are the ones supplying electricity to all households.  The houses are typical for the region, the Odenwald in Germany.

http://oaklanddailyphoto.blogspot.de/ : Monday Mural

If you gotta go, you gotta go

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One of a series of creative toilet seats in a hotel in Chodovar, Czech Republic.  Useless fact: In German, toilet seats are called “loo spectacles”.
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Mural in Oberursel, Germany.

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Not quite state-of-the-art outhouse on an allotment. And another useless fact: outhouses in German are called “Plumpsklos”, a loo into which somethings drops.  Admit it, you wanted to know that.
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Urgent, urgent!

I’ve used the painted wooden toilet seats once before in a photo challenge: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/wcs-with-water-and-without/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bathrooms or Outhouses