Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts

Monday, 21 September 2015

Impressions of Bavaria and Salzburg

View of the Alps.
Tiny chapels everywhere.
Old fountains (Salzburg).


The Salzburg Dom.
Fortress Hohensalzburg in the upper background

Thousands of padlocks on the bridge over the Salzach.
The mountain is 'hollow'. The doors on the right instruct you to watch for emerging cars.


The metal doors near the top of the picture are the entry way to shafts where cars are stored.


Houses built into the side of the mountain.

A really big tree

Every town had this 'occupation' tree. Any town that had a butcher seemed to have a pig as its target animal. And the pigs are portrayed as being quite gullible. This pig is being petted while the butcher holds an axe behind her back. On another one I saw, the pig was smiling up at the butcher as he was bringing an axe down on the pig's head.

Colourful produce.

Lederhosen bathing suits
Chiemsee (way in the background)
Typical Bavarian house.
A 'sample' (as the menu put it) of Bavarian meats and cheeses. If this was a sample, I would not have wanted to see the meal version.
The Alps at sunset.
Sausage display.
Frankfurt city hall (taken at sunset on a cloudy day. It doesn't really look so goth).

Tuesday, 31 March 2009

A Handy Little Gadget

While in the Netherlands, The Geek bought this cell phone holder for one euro.
Mrs D was so impressed she bought one for her cell phone too.

Saturday, 28 March 2009

We're a Little Thick

And just wide enough that it made it hard to get down the aisles in the train and on the U- & S-Bahns.





Honey We're Home!

The poster tube did make it home safely.
And to celebrate our last breakfast in Berlin and the end of a wonderful trip, we went all out.
Brotchen and pastries!!

Oddities and Curiosities Part 2

Concrete railway ties. Not the creosote-treated wood I am accustomed to.Need a mouse? Maybe two? One of two rows of this basic computer necessity. (Is it 'mice' or 'mouses'?)
A house in the country perhaps? The Geek says it is so expensive because it is on the edge of Potsdam next to a wooded area. I sure hope that makes it worthwhile.

A Swarkovski crystal encrusted model of a Lamborghini, perhaps? At this price, you could get two!
Do you want just one pickle? Now you can buy just one pickle. That KaDeWe thinks of everything!
These eggs aren't dyed. This is their real colour.
A chocolate castle. Someone has a lot more patience than I do.
Away from the extravagant.
These sloping escalators are quite common. And quite fun. If you are walking fast enough, they pretty much launch you across the room when you reach the end.

Thursday, 26 March 2009

A House With an Attached Garage?

Many houses in Canada have attached garages, but many farms in Holland have houses with attached machine sheds.They must have a way of preventing a fire in one part of the building from spreading to the rest. Imagine what a loss it would be otherwise.

A Little of The Netherlands' History

Kloster Ter Apel is a 13th century monastery located close to Musselkanaal.

It was left for a time to fall into a state of disrepair, then restored, with some new additions.


This is how the addition looks from the inside.The building supports are mostly gothic arches. The monks supporeted their habit (I'm sorry, I couldn't resist) by making beer to sell to the neighbouring areas.It was stored on of the cellars, this one with Roman arches.
Many remedies were made from herbs gathered in the medicinal garden.
This outbuilding was having its daub and wattle exterior repaired.

About 20 kilometes away is Bourtange, a fortified village originally founded in the 16th century during the 80 years war.
This is a photograph of the village in approximately 1960 when it was decided to turn the village back into the fortress, circa 1750.
This is how it looks today.

This windmill is a replica of the one that was here in the 1700s. The real windmill is working nearby.

A view of the village from one of the walls. Approximately 250 people live in the village inside the restored walls.

One of the moats surrounding Bourtange.
The steep stairs down from the wall.
The thick door at one of the gates. The little door a regularly sized door.

The village square.

and one of the streets leading to a gate.
Winschoten is the town Mrs D lived when she met my Uncle after the war. He was billeted in this building while waiting to go back to England.

One of the towns three windmills.
One of the pedestrian malls.

and a field on the way back to Musselkanaal.