I heard the sounds before I saw the workers. The familiar sounds of a water truck cleaning the street. In Canada, as Spring comes they send out trucks with high pressure spray nozzles to hose down the streets, clearing away a winter’s accumulated grit with a pressure wash. The streets don’t stay clean for long, […]
The steeple of Freiburg’s famous Munster seen from a couple of blocks away yesterday.
My wife had had enough. Me too. We just had to so somewhere different. Freiburg was the logical choice. I have been avoiding that city since last September, when it was announced that masks mist be worn at all times in the inner city. I don’t like masks, so I just didn’t travel to Freiburg. […]
Maybe I need to watch it again. After all, it has ten Oscar nominations. When Mahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manknk first came out on Netflix just before Christmas I watched it with my wife. I didn’t think the movie was worthy of a review here. However, given the accolades it is now receiving, I thought perhaps I should give […]
The party will be subdued this year, even more than in 2020. No parades, maybe not even any green beer, which has nothing to do with St. Patrick anyway. He may be the patron saint of Ireland, but he wasn’t even Irish. In my corner of Germany Patrick’s presence is felt, though I would guess […]
Where are you planning not to go in 2021? Will you plan a vacation for 2022 instead? The never-ending pandemic has changed the way we look at so many things. I expect it will take years for the travel industry to recover. If it ever does. It feels like we are trapped in a dystopian […]
I took these pictures a year ago today, when everyone was panicking and there was no toilet paper and almost no pasta left in the stores. Those days seem so long ago. We seem to have adjusted to so much over the past twelve months and accepted so many infringements on our freedom. I can’t […]
A flashback for you today – one of my early posts from September 2014. One of the fun things about a vacation, for me anyway, is traveling to locations that can bring history alive in a new way. That was Dunwich, a village in Suffolk County on England’s North Sea Coast. I had never heard […]
Speaking of last, it is the last day of the work week. Time to ease into the weekend. I figured some smiles were in order. Problem was, I didn’t know what title to give today’s post. That’s where the writer’s block comes in. I thought of not having a title, but then it would look […]
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