Well, specifically it’s really variations on a photo of a swan in Neckar River. I don’t know why there are swans that hang out on the Neckar River, but there are. However, only occasionally are they in the part on … Continue reading
Today I wanted to follow-up on a couple of odds and ends, things that won’t make a full blog post on their own.
I promised a couple of weeks ago to get back with more info about that missing tower that I said should have been in the “postcard shot” of the Neckar River in Tübingen.
More specifically, the church that isn’t a church.
A modern fairy tale based on a true story…
A song called 99 Luftballoons (“99 Balloons” in English) was popular in the US (and elsewhere) back in the 1980s, sung by the German sung by Nena, a German pop singer. It was played on U.S. radio stations at the … Continue reading
A quick update on the boxes: in a fit of organizational skills we didn’t know we possessed, we unpacked and put away the contents of 20 boxes last night. Well, put away as much as we could; our large armoire … Continue reading
In addition to the boxes that we sent to ourselves right when we left Bolzano, we also had 33 more boxes of stuff that needed to get from Bolzano to Tübingen. I’m happy to report that all of them are … Continue reading
Here in Tübingen, one of the local Schwabian specialties that appears on almost all of the menus is something called Maultaschen. Maultaschen are large filled squares of pasta which look like gigantic, overly plump ravioli. Typically these are filled with … Continue reading
Another beautifully clear weekend, led to a few more nice photos of a punting boat on the Neckar. When the sky is clear, the reflections in the skill Neckar River are really something.