Whenever I am in this part of Munich and have some free minutes, I pass by the new synagogue, and in a way I can’t explain this place and setting rewards me with images, some of them here on the blog. The building in the background is the Jewish Cultural Center of Munich, the small…
An office space with continuous Segafredo flow – what a treat! Reality is less attractive, as the word ‘segalicious’ has found its way into the Austrian language (at least the part that is used by the youth). The predecessor of this location did wear the name ‘Zebra’ – much too old-fashioned for today’s bars and…
Rain doesn’t always have to be drab and grey, and sometimes diagonals really ask for (ab-)usage.
Busy with kids and friends last night (and preparations in the hours before) I completely forgot to make even a single one new year’s resolution. Not that I would have kept too many in the years before, but forgetting even to make one was new for me. But one thought had occurred to me the…
Having approached the end of the fossile fuel era one more year, I thought this image would make for a nice end-of-the-year picture 😉
There’s still enough christmas decoration in the shops, with the shop owners being busy to replace it for carneval items to keep business running.
Tradition has it that on Christmas Eve, the first christmas holiday, new year’s evening and new year’s day itself the self-appointed royalist mountaineering riflemen vulgo “Gebirgsschützen” fire salute rounds (“Böller”) from special ultralarge calibre pistols called “Stutzen”. As so many traditions this one too most probably has its origins in pagan times, when the ghosts…
My sincerest wishes for a thoroughly Happy Christmas are with all of you, dear readers, and I connect with them the hope for a more peaceful future. The last weeks, days, were filled with too many news of bloodshed, atrocities, cruelties, murderous attempts, so that it’s difficult to remember the bright and hopeful days we…
… and some residues of snow. Tomorrow we’ll have 68° F… Snow is to be expected after new year only.
Text-wise complementing Tyler Monson’s post of today
