It didn’t take us two years to cross the Neckarbrücke, of course. But on Saturday Chris and I ventured off the main road on the other side of the bridge from where we normally walk, the first time we’ve done that in 2 years. When we got there, it was a sight to behold. Literally, since it turned out to have a very nice scenic vantage point from which you can look down a side-branch of the river, toward another bridge.
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 know, full of tales where I “fight the dragon and storm the castle” and that kind of thing. Continue reading
Sunday will mark exactly two years since Chris and I moved to Tübingen, Germany. As always when we reach one of this little time milestones, I just can’t believe how quickly the time has gone by. Continue reading
I remember seeing giant banana slugs years ago when we visited the campus of the University of Santa Cruz in California. The paths through campus were crawling — if that’s the right word — with these pretty, albeit slimy, bright yellow mollusks. Their prevalence on campus explains, I guess, why the banana slug is the mascot of the university. While I have seen smaller slugs of other less interesting colors over the years, I have rarely to seen one quite as large or as striking as those that I remember from Santa Cruz. 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: Continue reading
I remember back in elementary school we would periodically sing from a folk-song book. I had thought at the time that all the songs were American folk songs – if the song book said otherwise, I didn’t notice or retain that information. Continue reading
Shortly after we arrived in Tübingen, somebody told us that the oldest house in Tübingen was not too far away from where we live: Continue reading
Remember how I mentioned in passing the other day that Chris and I had gone to the Black Forest on a day trip? The town we went to was Alpirsbach, one of the first towns you come to in the Black Forest when you’re taking the train in that direction from Tübingen.
Alpirsbach doesn’t actually have that much to see, truth be told. But, it has a beer factory museum, which makes Alpirsbach-brand beer. We drank the beer at lunch in a restaurant in town, but we skipped the guided tour of the brewery museum in favor the guided tour of the old Alpirsbach Abbey. The abbey has some of the best preserved Romanesque architecture in Germany; it was consecrated in 1099.
And it’s probably the only Romanesque church around Continue reading
You see little green men everywhere when you go to cities in the former East Germany. Specifically, you see little green men Continue reading
Although I’ve had a website for a while, I decided to give it a facelift. Continue reading