Every year our town hosts a fairly large festival. In the old part of town many houses and yards transform into beer gardens and restaurants, the open yards into dancefloors. The food at the traditional places is more or less the same every year: one … Continue reading Standard Fare – Welcome Every Year
This butchery claims that its meat and sausages are always freshly butchered, and that they are hearty, delicious, and tempting. Which might be true and therefore honest self-praise. Is it honest, though, to put a smiling, content pig in a tempting, even enticing pose lying … Continue reading Honest Claims
A clothesline in front of the house entrance showing that a baby was born to the family. This custom is still practiced in some villages around here. A label for people who don’t know how to wash clothes and what to do with them afterwards … Continue reading The Stork Has Landed
but he hardly ever did. Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Hats
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Smiles
About 20km to the West from us is the headquarters and the first site of the largest chemical producer in the world, BASF (Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik). Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Chemistry
It used to be that the alcohol of choice that was consumed at the Hash (amongst Hash House Harriers) was beer but these times are gone and now we drink wine, too. Wine labels can look classy or pretentious or boring but sometimes they add … Continue reading Labels Maketh the Wine
… The continent of Europe is so wide, mein HerrNot only up and down, but side to side, mein HerrI couldn’t ever cross it if I tried, mein HerrBut I do what I can, inch by inchStep by step, mile by mileMan by man. Lyrics … Continue reading Moving on
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Inspiration
Houses were built closer together, streets were narrower. Today’s inhabitants do the best they can. But sometimes pedestrians and cars compete for right of way. Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Streets
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