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Friday Followups
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Category Archives: Festivals
That’s how they jazzed
Well, we had fun over the weekend at two Jazz Festival concerts, even though it’s true that the quality of the music did vary.
They call it Jazz
We were talking last night with a friend here in Tübingen how the fall festival season is now in full swing here in Tüinbgen, what with food, music, and film festivals happening almost every other weekend from September into December.
Rowing on the river
A punting boat of the type that has featured in many of my photos is properly called Stocherkahn here in Tübingen. Once a year there’s a race with these boats — a Stocherkahnrennen — around the island in the middle … Continue reading
Tübingen Fasnet Parade 2012
As I mentioned yesterday, Tübingen does not have a rich tradition of celebrating in the Carnival season that leads up to Lent.
A Tree Grows Up in Tübingen
For any of you who regularly check the webcam in the Marktplatz in Tübingen (via the link on the right side of this page), you may have noticed that they have put up a tree in the Marktplatz.
Starting the year off with a bang
At midnight on New year’s Eve in Verona, they set off fireworks above L’Arena, the 2000-year-old Roman amphitheatre. We’d never seen that before, but timed our visit right this year to check it out. The fireworks lasted for a full … Continue reading
The Tübingen Weihnachtsmarkt
Due to my spending time studying for today’s German test, this post about the Tübingen Christmas Market didn’t get finished yesterday. But my studying paid off: I’m happy to report that I got an “A” on the exam and for … Continue reading
‘Round and ‘Round
Since I still have more studying to do before I call it a night, I don’t have enough time to finish the main post I am planing to write about the Christmas market. That will have to wait until tomorrow.
Festival Food
We did our best to sample our way through the Tübingen Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market) on Sunday. We only had a couple of hours in which to do it, though. So, we didn’t get a complete survey of all the foods on … Continue reading