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A Schloss is to be rebuilt in Berlin…
Yesterday, Mingophoto had a post (check it out here) “Ich bau dir ein Schloss” (I’ll build you a castle… I asked where it was, and was told it was to be rebuilt in the old historical centre of Berlin....
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Frizztext’s A to Z Challenge: E is for Erfurt
today on Frizztexts A to Z challenge, we are on the letter E…. in my travels, I have visited the East End of London, Eisenach, Elend…and actually, not that many more ‘E’s. But I have been to Erfurt,the...
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Frizztext’s A toZ challenge: N is for Nürnberg
It’s time again for Frizztext’s A to Z Challenge, this week it’s N. From my travels, N could be for Najac, Narbonne, Naumburg, Newgale, Nice, Niederbronn les Bains, , NiederÖsterreich, Nîmes,...
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Frizztext’s A toZ challenge: O is for Oybin
It’s time again for Frizztext’s A to Z Challenge, this week it’s O. From my travels, O could be for Obernai, Oxford, Ossiach, Orianenberg, Orange, Orford Ness, Oppède le Vieux….. But I shall go for...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Works of Art?
This week we have Works of Art for the Photo Challenge. I thought I would steer away from the beautiful, and post a couple of items that might be works of art to some eyes! Both cartoons/caricatures…....
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Frizztext’s A to Z Challenge: Z is for Zittau
It’s time again for Frizztext’s A to Z Challenge, this week it’s Z. From my travels, Z could be only be for Zittau… I have known what I would post for Z ever since I started these A to Z
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Mirror
For the Weekly Photo Challenge, I am showing an image of the Castle at Puckler Park, Bad Muskau, reflected in the lake. This photo was taken a decade and a half ago when the castle was in a run down
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Transport
Many moons ago, I was all for Shanks’ Pony, as only walking could get you to the more out of the way places. Or up and down rocky bits: That said, I have always liked railways (except the ones into
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Postcards from my past / 5 Colditz
As a young teenager, I was an avid watcher of the 1970s TV series Colditz (I can still hear that theme tune….), and I always wanted to go and see the place for myself. A trip to Eastern Germany in
View ArticleOnce Over
I may or may not be approaching this the right way… Paula has asked us to show a variation of the same theme. as I am currently trying to look at the potential of some of my images in monochrome,
View ArticleD is for Dresden
I found a couple of OK images that I had taken on a visit to Dresden in the early ’90s, wish I had more, but in the days of film I was more sparing…but nonetheless, I am rather surprised that
View ArticleN is for Nürnberg (Nuremberg)
I went a number of times in the late 80s to early 90s to visit a friend, and she introduced me to a number of places in Bavaria. Alas, I didn’t take loads of images of Nürnberg itself, and many
View ArticleQ is for Quedlinburg
In the early ’90s, soon after the fall of the Wall, we travelled to the former communist East Germany, now part of a unified democratic Germany. In only just over a week, we covered quite a lot of...
View ArticleW is for Wieskirche
One year we travelled along the German Romantic road in Bavaria, and having done my research, we stopped off at the little church at the hamlet of Wies, the Wieskirche. It was a late September...
View ArticleZ is for Zittau
I have known what I would post for Z ever since I started these A to Z challenge responses…unlike some other letters where I hadn’t a clue. Trouble is, I can’t locate more than a few images at present,...
View ArticleEast Side Gallery, Berlin 2 decades ago….
The images were very much of their time – speaking, as they did, of the political events unfolding: Hh Advertisements
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The changes I saw to Dresden’s Frauenkirche from 1993 and 2001 Linked to One Word Sunday at Debbie’s here
View ArticlePerspectives (23) – A Medieval street Perspective
Cobbled street and unrestored medieval buildings in Quedlinburg, eastern Germany, a year or three after the fall of the Wall: Wish I had taken more images, but that was the days of film, and as I...
View ArticlePerspective (28) – Street Perspective
A street scene complete with cobbles and a lone bicycle – this is the Krämerbrucke (Merchants bridge) in Erfurt, as seen in 2001: From the outside, does it add to the sense of a mini Ponte Vecchia?...
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where else but a part of the remaining Wall in Berlin, now the East Side Gallery: Linked to One Word Sunday at Debbie’s here
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