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Chaos In The Streets (Cultural Differences VIII)
I had been told that Germans celebrate the New Year with fireworks. Experiencing that was far more intense than the description. In Canada fireworks are a controlled affair for the most part. If a holiday is deemed important enough to warrant such pyrotechnics, it is usually the municipality that stages the show. Safety concerns […]
Downtown Staufen
Sunday afternoon nothing is open in Germany, at least not where we live. And December 24 not many people were out window shopping – everyone was already home with family. We took the opportunity to visit Staufen, which is about five kilometres from home. I had been through the castle on my first visit to […]
Food For Thought
No, I didn’t eat this meal, but I want to. That was the intention of the sender. It came to me from an agency in Maine that rents cottages to vacationers. It was described as a Maine Christmas meal. Not my idea of a traditional holiday meal, but it does look like a feast. It […]
Another Christmas Market???!!!
I thought we were done. After visiting six different Advent/Christmas markets there was no reason to see any more. Saturday though we went to Freiburg, mostly because we could. Our weekends have been busy, but suddenly we had a Saturday with no previous commitments. Plus, we had a transit pass which allowed us to make […]
Christmas Penguins?
It’s Christmas Eve, also the fourth Sunday of the 2017 Advent season. As I have done the past couple of Sundays, I am featuring a nativity set today. Two of them. I thought about saving one of these for Advent 2018, but I suspect I’ll find other ones to share with you next year. They […]
The Rink
I saw the sign, and didn’t think it was that big a deal. From Nov. 26 to Dec. 27 there would be a skating rink set up on the pedestrian mall in Mullheim, the largest town in our region. It is only now that I am beginning to appreciate that it is a big event. […]
Christmas Market – Heitersheim II
A photo essay for you today. If you need commentary, that was in yesterday’s post.
Fall Colours
Technically it isn’t winter until Thursday, though we started off Monday with our first snow of the season. It didn’t last though. We had sunshine by early afternoon, and by the time I made a grocery run it was a beautiful day. I snapped some pictures on my walk home. The colours on the hills […]
Christmas Is Coming!
Hard to believe it is a week from today. With no snow on the ground here it doesn’t feel like December yet. Certainly though, there are enough decorations and holiday festivities to get me in the mood. The main square in Sulzburg was decorated with a tree a couple of weeks ago, plus a sleigh […]
The Third Sunday of Advent
Last Sunday I showed you some pictures of a nativity set that has been in my wife’s family since 1925. Today more nativity set photos, from an older and larger set. If I read the sign correctly (which is debatable since my German is still practically non-existent), this set in the City Museum in Lippstadt […]
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