Tag Archives: Germany
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 […]
Flashback Directions
On Fridays this year we have been looking at older posts from the same date that you may have missed. I remember this 2018 post well – at my age learning a new language isn’t fun. My German teacher supposedly appreciates my sense of humor, though she has told my wife if I don’t curb […]
Flashback Cars
We continue our Friday Flashback series with a post from July 5, 2018. I’m not really a car guy, but I had fun at this one. This post was the fifth in a series on the event. Time to wrap up our car series from this year’s edition of the Mullheim city festival. You can […]
A Few Regrets?
I used to say I had no regrets about time spent living in Germany, even though the language and COVID-19 were challenging. Now though, I am beginning to wonder. I was meeting a friend for coffee in Freiburg, so I grabbed an earlier train. I figured I would wander around the downtown core for a […]
The Stiftsruine
It has been 38 years since I last visited Lesser St. Mary’s Church in Lippstadt, Germany. That is despite have been in the city at least a half- dozen times since. It was so long ago that the only photos I had were taken with a film camera. I made a point of visiting it […]
A Place of Tranquility
I lived on the same street as St. Cyriak church for four years, and would occasionally wander inside to touch base with history. There is something soothing about a building that has been used for Christian worship for more than a thousand years. It’s an oasis of peace on a spring day, the coolness of […]
Flashing Back to Staufen
Today as our Flashback Friday series continues, we go back to June 7, 2015. Rereading this post I realize how much I have learned since then about Staufen and the area. In 2015 it never occurred to me that within a couple of years I would be living in a village an hour’s walk from […]
Travel Surprise
Memories fade, but this is ridiculous. I’ve been bitten yet again by a mobile German holiday. In 2018 there were a few mornings when I headed to the grocery store, only to find it closed for a holiday I wasn’t aware of. In Canada stores post holiday hours a week or so beforehand. In Germany […]
Sacrifice
For today’s Flashback Friday post we revisit April 12, 2015. Kind of a Good Friday theme. While in Germany last summer we visited Museum Abtei Liesborn, which has the largest collection of crucifixes in Germany, more than 800 of them. I have written about that visit already, but thought today I would share just a couple more photos from that […]
Where Is It?
It’s Flashback Friday, when I share an older post from years past. Today’s is from March 8, 2018, some thoughts on dealing with a new-to-me transit system. If you visit here regularly you know I am a big supporter of public transit. No matter where I am. My home town is Ottawa, and the system […]
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