Tag Archives: Germany
Winter Blues
When i went out this morning it was drizzling. Freezing drizzle. Which then changed to snow. I was not impressed. I’m tired of winter. Spring is here according to the calendar, but snow and ice continues to fall. It seems like it has been longer than usual. Maybe that is a sign of my getting […]
Are You Green Today?
I’m not sure my Irish roots allow me to properly celebrate St. Patrick’s Day today, even if on March 17 everyone be is Irish. Whatever I do, I certainly won’t be drinking green beer. That just seems wrong. My family emigrated from Ireland to Canada in 1846. Yes, Anderson is a Scottish name. We weren’t […]
Ships in the Sky
After Saturday’s post about bombs falling in the Middle East, a different skyscape today. This is a repost from 2019. A little less than a half hour’s walk from our home in Sulzburg, Germany, was a famous nursery. People came from miles around to get their plants and flowers and to eat at the cafe. […]
Remembering
With heat, humidity and haze from forest fires, Ottawa has not topped my list of places to live this week. I’ve been missing the clear, fresh air of Germany’s Black Forest. Today’s photos are from one of the last walks we did before moving back to Canada four years ago. I can’t tell you anything […]
The World Remembers
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and also the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, where the full extent of the Nazi genocide came to light. Today a post from five years ago about a different concentration camp. The first question I thought when visiting the Dachau concentration camp was: “How could they not […]
Reminder of the Past
The guidebook says there is nothing to see. I guess it is a little outdated. My wife has been visiting Lippstadt, Germany, since her childhood. She knew there had once been a synagogue, but had never visited. This time she walked right by. The guidebook said what was once a synagogue was behind some garage […]
Another Munster Visit
It is one of those iconic churches, a huge draw for tourists in downtown Freiburg. I hadn’t planned on going inside, but the organ music drew me in. The Munster is a dark place – you really shouid visit it on a sunny day. I don’t think i have ever managed that, but this particular […]
The Fountain
Thought I would do something travel-related today. give everybody a break from politics. This fountain is at the base of the old Water Tower in Mannheim, Germany. When I lived in the country it was a city I always intended to visit, if for no reason other than to see their hockey team in action. […]
Remembering The Dead
On this Flashback Friday we go back to a post from September 6, 2014. At the time I visited this German war cemetery I never dreamed that three years later I would be living in Germany. It is a solemn place and a stark reminder that there were no winners in the First World War. […]
This Year’s Pigs
They’ve become emblematic of the German city of Lippstadt. Three wooden pigs, roped together, that inhabit the pedestrian mall in the city core When I first met them, more than a decade ago, I thought they were a rather quaint idea. Something mostly to amuse children, they can be pulled down the street. You never […]
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