Not quite unexpected
So after taking the photo that was in yesterday’s post, I looked to my left and noticed a nice photo op of some folks in a Stocherkahn, the punting boats that are popular here in Tübingen.
So after taking the photo that was in yesterday’s post, I looked to my left and noticed a nice photo op of some folks in a Stocherkahn, the punting boats that are popular here in Tübingen.
The swan yesterday was on a branch of the Neckar River, not far from where it hooks up with the main part of the river. Standing with my back to the swan, I looked out and saw the following scene … Continue reading
As I’ve said in the past, and reconfirmed last Friday with some of the photos I posted, Tübingen is like a fairy tale town. So, you might think that my daily life is like that in a fairy tale, you … Continue reading
Take a look at the follow photo – do you see the metal thing on the top of the fairy-tale like turret roof? It looks like a figure with its arms outstretched, doesn’t it:
You might remember that I talked about the “locks of love” back in February.
A while back Chris ran across a list of the songs that have been at the top of the pop charts in Germany over the years. Just for fun, I had looked to see what was the #1 song in … Continue reading
The other evening Chris and I happened to catch a British T.V. show on German TV. The murderer in the episode turned out to be … the butler.
Earlier this year, Chris and I created a Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning letters blog site, where we’ve been posting the letters between the two poets that documents their 1.5 year courtship. During the period of those letters, Elizabeth Barrett … Continue reading
Last Saturday, Chris and I had a chance to go to two outdoor events here in Tübingen that, oddly enough, wound up having something American in common.
Until Will first alerted me to a recent blog post in the NY Times, I’d never heard of the term Denglish.