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While everyone else in this country was out celebrating “Fat Tuesday” by dressing weird and dancing drunk in the streets, I went out to shoot pictures of the alps.
This is the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak (2.962 metres).
Notice the lack of snow.
There really isn’t an explanation, really. But any Bavarian will claim to be a Bavarian before he claims to be German, as Mausi pointed out in her comment on my last post. Though I was born in Bavaria, my families, mother’s and father’s side, come from Silesia originally (which today is in Poland / Czech [...]
The Christmas party was o.k. Except for the Nikolaus. He did an awful job. Every year, they write up a lengthy rhyme containing funny stories of things that occurred throughout the year. This Nikolaus stammered and stuttered through the rhyme, taking all of the fun out of it. I am quite sure he hadn’t read [...]
A post on Seitherin’s Blog about the 12 days of Christmas reminded me of our Rauhnächte and I wondered if there was a correlation. Every two years or so, I ask my stepmom about them (because somehow that info just refuses to stay in my head). Thus, I decided to research the issue and here [...]