New Traditions

So, did you trot out any traditions with which to celebrate the start of the new year? Chris and I started out December 31, 2013 in London, where we had gone for a long weekend getaway between Christmas and New Year’s. We were back in Tübingen, though, by the evening, just in time to settle in and perform a traditional German New Year’s Eve’s ritual: watching the British comedy sketch Dinner for One on German broadcast television. Continue reading

Not the “standard” bridge shot

Welcome to 2014 on Two to Tübingen! To celebrate the new year, we have a new photo of an almost-new-to-the-blog bridge. I think I may have posted one other photo of this bridge before, but not recently. So, today’s photo of the Neckar River is neither the “standard” postcard shot of the buildings along the Neckar, nor is it a photo of the “standard” photogenic bridge in Tübingen, the Neckarbrücke. Rather, it’s another bridge altogether: Continue reading

Merry Christmas from CPE, CC and me

While we were in Hamburg last month, I heard the story of how one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons, C.P.E. Bach, was actually more famous during his lifetime than his father had been in his own lifetime. Interesting. Although I like classical music and took piano lessons for 10 years, I only remembered C.P.E. Bach (hereafter CPE) from a piece he wrote that most piano students learn at some point: Solfeggietto. Both Chris and I learned to play it on the piano when we were kids. It’s still popular today – you can find many unusual takes on it, too, such as this rock-and-roll guitar version.  Perhaps the popularity of the rest of CPE’s works got eclipsed by his father’s eventual posthumous popularity.  Continue reading

Scene from the side

The classic Tübingen “postcard shot” shows the cute, colorful, medieval buildings along the Neckar River, topped by the steeple of the big Evangelical church above them, and ending with a peek at the yellow Hölderlin Tower building.  It’s usually pretty colorful, which is why this view today is striking: the overwhelming color I get from looking over at the buildings is unexpectedly white, not those brilliant pastel tones. Continue reading

A view of the river’s edge

Today I have included 2 versions each of 2 different photos of trees along the Neckar River. The variation is for trying to adjust the colors in the different versions: the yellower/browner ones are how they came out of the camera, but my recollection was that the overall scene should was slightly bluer in person because the sky had a nice blue tint to it that day.

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