Today’s post is the 300th post here on Two to Tü – imagine that! Seems like only yesterday I started this blog, but it was actually back on September 12, 2011.
My self-imposed challenge for any milestone post is to come up with a theme and/or a photo or two to match the milestone. After playing with a variety of ideas for counting 300 of this and that, I decided to count off 300 days since we moved to Tübingen, and post some photos from that day. Since we arrived on September 1, 2011, our 300th day in Tübingen was therefore June 23, 2012.
Well, at least, the function I used in Excel to count the number of days between 2 dates provided June 23, 2012 as the 300th day after September 12, 2011. However, I happened to notice that there’s another function in Excel that calculates the number of days between two days based on a 360 day calendar. Um, excuse me? 360 days in a year? I know, I know, it’s probably some accounting method thing, and the function I used for my calculations isn’t supposed to use that type of counting to arrive at its date. But still — can I completely trust a program that says that sometimes there are 360 days in year?
But I digress.
Anyway, on June 23, 2012 we hosted friends visiting from Seattle, with whom we did two different things. First, we watched a boating race along the Neckar River in downtown Tübingen. I posted those photos a while back in this post.
Next we hopped a bus to the outskirts of town to tour Bebenhausen, the old monastery-turned-royal-hunting-lodge that is now a major tourist attraction here in Tübingen. (We first went there last May with Stan and Judie).. I hadn’t even gotten around to sorting through all the photos from June 23rd until this morning, when I decided to sort them in order to use them into today’s 300th themed post.
Of course, the fact that I hadn’t sorted those photos from a day in June also points out something about my blogging style: I always have a backlog of photos and ideas for posts. New ideas — and new photos — pop up all the time, and get added to the bottom of an ever-expanding “blog post ideas” list. That’s part of the fun of writing the blog, at least from my perspective – almost anything can wind up on the blog, and I’m never at a loss for something to write about day-to-day.
Although I don’t have any specific plans for themes that will run through the next 300 posts, I have a few topics that have been on that list for while that I will make a real effort to write out before we reach 600. For example, I still haven’t had a chance to write-up all the different German foods we eat regularly – I’ve barely scratched the surface on that topic, and there are some interesting things to comment on about the food.
And of course I should finish off some other old day trips whose pictures haven’t made it onto the blog…
And I’d like to talk a bit about the perils and pitfalls of trying to learning German by watching German detective shows on t.v. …
And of course there are more (mis)adventures I run into day-to-day in Tübingen that should be chronicled sooner or later …
And … well, the list goes on. Rest assured, I won’t be out of topics anytime soon.
Anyway, thanks for continuing to stop by to check out the blog over the last 300 posts, with their wide-ranging topics and meanderings. 😉 For today, I hope you enjoy the photos below from our 300th day in Tübingen.
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- Bebenhausen Tower
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- Chapel, Bebenhausen
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- Looking back toward the door in the Chapel
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- Architecture of the Chapel
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- Chapel ceiling – detail #1
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- Chapel ceiling – detail #2
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- Chapel ceiling – detail #3
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- Chapel ceiling – detail #4
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- Stained glass window
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- Stained Glass window – detail #1
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- Stained Glass window – detail #2
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- Stained Glass window – detail #3
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- Stained Glass window – detail #4
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- “Dormitory” floor, Bebenhausen
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- “Dormitory” floor, Bebenhausen – detail
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- Wall lighting, Chapel, Bebenhausen
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- Self-portrait reflection #1
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- Self-portrait reflection #2
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- Self-portrait reflection #3
Congratulations–and thanks–for reaching this amazing milestone, Linda.
I don’t know where you find the time to watch detective shows on German TV, but I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for your post on the pitfalls of watching them.
Thanks, Will! I’ll try to get something posted about the “Krimis” (detectives shows) sometime very soon! 😉
I do remember going to Bebenhausen but I don’t remember going into the chapel. I remember going into the dormitory. Anyway, I like the stained glass windows prone better than upright. They are not as exciting as the chapel ceiling is and I did like all of the close-ups, especially the first one. I am trying to find the right word to describe your self-portrait picture although it is not YOUR portrait itself that demands a special word. It is the TOTAL picture with all the forms crimped together in strange ways. Bizarre is too strong. Odd and peculiar are too weak. Maybe “strange” after all is the best word for the time being. Thanks for the entertainment!
i love the decorative wall patt
erns of the leaves and branches.
Thanks, Stan – I’m not sure we went into that chapel when you visited (I think different rooms were open at different times. Re the self-portrait, the way the two hallways got reflected was indeed “strange” – I took it more for that strangeness than for it to be a self-portrait, but that part was unavoidable from where I standing.
Kathy, thanks for the comment – I don’t think I made it clear that the leaves and branches were decoration on the ceiling, not on the wall.