Having little to do these next few weeks, I decided to begin a journey with words and pictures. I will bear no responsibility for typing errors as my left eye is still recovering from surgery to repair a macular hole.
I guess I will begin with a few pictures and stories of my recent business trip to Germany. The trip began on January 9th. It is hard to remember how much impact a higher latitude has on daylight hours, but it reminded me of the years of living in the Pacific N
orthwest when the sun only was up for a few hours a day during the winter months. With only a few daylight hours, it became difficult to find places to visit on the weekend. The first weekend trip to Heidelburg would have been great if: 1) I could have seen better, 2) I would have had a better navigator in the co-pilot seat, and 3) I had explained to the new arrivals that Schloss was usually spelled in German with a funny looking b character replacing the double s. After trips on the trolley tracks, (thakfully no trolley came while we were thus diverted) various major construction areas, and going the wrong way on one-way streets (Einbahnstrasse) we arrived at the parking garage near the castle. The 45 minute trip had taken about 3 hours.
By the time we got to the castle, the afternoon sun was casting shadows on the building, giving it an interesting look.From above the city, we had a wonderful panarama of the German layout.
orthwest when the sun only was up for a few hours a day during the winter months. With only a few daylight hours, it became difficult to find places to visit on the weekend. The first weekend trip to Heidelburg would have been great if: 1) I could have seen better, 2) I would have had a better navigator in the co-pilot seat, and 3) I had explained to the new arrivals that Schloss was usually spelled in German with a funny looking b character replacing the double s. After trips on the trolley tracks, (thakfully no trolley came while we were thus diverted) various major construction areas, and going the wrong way on one-way streets (Einbahnstrasse) we arrived at the parking garage near the castle. The 45 minute trip had taken about 3 hours.
2 comments:
Nice start. Please continue.
Glad to see you're using the word verification thing. You'll get spam comments if you don't.
I say "amen" to Jim's welcoming you to the Blog-World. If nothing else, you will get a lot of smart-alec responses to your hard work of putting a post together. These responses are called, "comments" in some quarters. But beware of the Zimmer-whizzes which you will now encounter.
Especially the one who started posting those "Un-Blief-able" photos.
The one named "Grumpy",however, will never give you a bad time.
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