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Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family in the U.S. today! To answer a couple of FAQs regarding Thanksgiving and Germany: yes, they do have turkeys in Germany, but no, they don’t have a holiday centered around eating one … Continue reading
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In 1902, Richard Steiff was working as a toy designer for his aunt, Margarete Steiff, when he had a wacky notion. In his travels around Europe he’d sketched a drawing of a bear, and he suggested to his aunt that … Continue reading
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On Saturday I went on a field trip with my history of Baden-Württemberg class to visit the House of the History of Baden-Würrtemberg museum. There will be at least one post about that museum, but this isn’t it.
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You may recall a while back I posted a photo of a building here in Tübingen that looks like it should be a castle, but isn’t. Here’s that same photo again:
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The photos below are from a set I took on Saturday here in Tübingen.
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Here in Germany, October 31st is just like any other day. It’s the next day, November 1st, which gets marked on the calendars, as “All Saints Day” on November 1st is an official day off in many parts of Germany, … Continue reading
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OK, maybe I should really call this post the art of making “artsy” snow photos.
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Apologies to Robert Frost, of course, whose poem gave me the idea for the title of this post. Of course, Frost talks about stopping woods on a snowy evening; we have a river, not woods, and while most of our … Continue reading
Well, today on the blog we’re here to investigate another historical murder mystery: the Murders of Richard III.
