It took me a while last Friday, on a dark and dreary morning when everything seemed clothed in a grey veil, but I finally located the tourist information center in downtown Omagh, a town about 70-80 kilometers west of Belfast. … Continue reading
There is really a book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. With apologies to the author of that book — a book I have never read, I might add — I beg to disagree with … Continue reading
You can probably already guess that the title is literal.
The weather in Hamburg only partially cooperated during my recent trip there. On the one hand, it never rained – always a plus for a tourist wandering around. On the other hand, it was never really completely sunny, that momentary … Continue reading
Last week Chris gave one of his invited talks at an institute in the city of Mannheim, which is just a couple of hours by train from Tübingen. My impression of the city was colored by the fact that it … Continue reading
When I posted the photos of the views from the ruins of the Church of St. Nicholas in Hamburg a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t have a photo of the full facade of the church to show you. However, … Continue reading
Hamburg has all that lovely water, but not a lot of the water had lovely reflections. Well, you can’t have everything.
… and what I went through to take it.
Although I may have implied yesterday that those were the only photos I took of the Hamburg harbor, I did actually manage a few photos of that area before the sun came out and was so bright. Today’s photos aren’t … Continue reading
So there I was at the Hamburg harbor on Friday. The skies in the morning were a bit cloudy, overall grayish-white, kind of flat. There were very occasional glimpses of sunlight and a tiny bit of blue sky. But mostly, … Continue reading