tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10743980600966162112024-03-19T03:04:06.196-07:00Our German YearDianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-9638934020718566652015-07-02T04:46:00.001-07:002015-07-03T01:13:34.994-07:00Stumbling StonesAll around Germany, if one pays attention, or if one just happens to look down a lot, these stones start appearing everywhere. These <a href="http://www.stolpersteine-gelsenkirchen.de/stumbling_stones_demnig.htm">"stumbling stones" </a>are in fact a huge art project by Gunter Demnig, and there are thousands of them. Here are some I've come across. Each one begins "Here lived" and is placed in front of the last known residence of a victim of the Holocaust. In Mainz, they are all over, which tells me that Jews and other victims were well-integrated into the community, and not living isolated in a single quarter.<br />
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In addition to the names, they give the birth name and year as well as the person's fate.Sometimes there is just one, sometimes it's a whole family. Each is a little history lesson as well as a memorial.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deported from Mainz to Piaski (Poland), where they died. Probably mother and child.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A family of 3: the child was sent on a "kindertransport" to Holland in 1939 and age 15, but was interned, deported to Auschwitz, and killed. The parents fled to Belgium, also in 1939, and the mother was also killed in Auschwitz. The father was declared dead, specific fate evidently unknown. The series of decisions this family had to make is heartbreaking to contemplate.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Appears to be three generations in Mainz: the grandparents "humiliated and disenfranchised" committed suicide, the mother and daughter fled to France but were interned, deported, and killed in Auschwitz.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fled at 17 in 1939 from Mainz to France, was interned, deported, and killed in Auschwitz.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deported in 1942 from Worms, declared dead in 1945.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deported at age 13 from Berlin, killed in Auschwitz</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt and killed in Auschwitz</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parents "humiliated and disenfranchised" committed suicide, adult child deported and killed in Auschwitz.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Probably mother and daughter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denounced and arrested in 1942, died in Buchenwald</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frau Betram was "humiliated and disenfranchised" and committed suicide. Her neighbor Frau Mosbach was deported to Lublin and died in Sobibor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In front of the former Gestapo headquarters in Freiburg. These are a little different as they're not where the individuals lived. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eugenie Ruf fled to France from Freiburg and survived in hiding. Max Ruf fled to Switzerland and France, was incarcerated in 1939 in a camp in Paris, did compulsory labor for the foreign legion in Morocco, and survived.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ullmans were deported from Freiburg in 1940 and died in 1942.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This woman was 93 or 94 years old when she was deported from Mainz to Theresienstadt, where she died.<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-25735821634732160602015-06-16T11:32:00.001-07:002015-06-16T11:32:07.159-07:00Corpus ChristiOne huge advantage to living right in the middle of town is that sometimes we experience events that we weren't aware of prior to them occurring. Mainz is historically a very Catholic community, and we saw the procession of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi_(feast)">Feast of Corpus Christi</a>.<br />
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There's lots beautiful in Potsdam - this is not an example. Rather, it's an example of that unspeakable era of East German architecture. This is right in the middle of town.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRa1Q63B8Cd5o7bDXkGtJ3MEikvDVYmPSdovn07hsR6LWRyCMqOguXvyKQZwrC0PEYhys7x_zOOLK7iKvzNd7m7BKvFc1-3DQgGok24ziNbW1b72SzvBjNMShSbpPOiToDcLXyFdKimANH/s1600/Potsdam+DDR+architecture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRa1Q63B8Cd5o7bDXkGtJ3MEikvDVYmPSdovn07hsR6LWRyCMqOguXvyKQZwrC0PEYhys7x_zOOLK7iKvzNd7m7BKvFc1-3DQgGok24ziNbW1b72SzvBjNMShSbpPOiToDcLXyFdKimANH/s320/Potsdam+DDR+architecture.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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But what we went to Potsdam for was the Sans Souci park! As soon as we arrived in Potsdam we hit the information desk in the train station and bought tickets to the Sans Souci palace - thank goodness, as there were only four left!<br />
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Sans Souci is a relatively small palace built in the 18th century, home to Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and famous for the Rococo style throughout. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Also in Sans Souci Park is the New Palace, also built by Frederick the Great. It's larger and was used primarily for ceremonial purposes. It is similarly done in Rococo style.</div>
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The Sans Souci Park is enormous - the path between Sans Souci Palace and the New Palace is 2.5 km long. Other fun buildings in the park include the Chinese House.<br />
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Berlin has great museums, including the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island. Half of it was closed for renovation, but there was still plenty to see. This is part of the Ishtar gate from Babylon. I always have mixed feelings about treasures taken from other lands, but I will admit to being glad to see some treasures from Syria, like the paneled room, preserved.<br />
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Naturally we also saw some of the landmarks of Berlin, including the Brandenburg Gate.<br />
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The museum of East Germany was really interesting for Wayne and for me - not so much for Gail. Luckily they had a Trabant simulated driving experience set up, which made it fun. We passed on the Trabant tours of Berlin - you can actually do a <a href="http://www.trabi-safari.de/">driving tour of Berlin in a Trabant</a>. Driving one feels sort of like driving a car in an amusement park. Here are some <a href="http://www.cartalk.com/content/lousiest-car-ever">Trabant jokes</a>.<br />
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In Berlin there are multiple Holocaust memorials, each dedicated to a different group of victims. The one to Jewish victims is the largest. On approach it looks like a graveyard, but it is deceptive. As you walk into the site the level of the sidewalks drops until the stones are towering over you, some at angles. It is very disorienting.Under the memorial is a museum. It's not very large, but it is very moving.<br />
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And on a lighter note, I loved this Ritter Sport (a popular chocolate bar) advertisement in the train station.<br />
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<br />Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-33446155140045646152015-05-10T11:15:00.000-07:002015-05-10T11:15:06.151-07:00Bad HomburgBad Homburg isn't likely at the top of anyone's itinerary when visiting Germany, but I happened to have seven hours to kill there and was pleasantly surprised! Finding the best Indian meal I've had in Germany also helped make the day good. The town dates from the middle ages.<br />
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In the center of town is a beautiful park with lots of fountains from the town's hot springs. It also has two Thai temples and a Russian chapel.<br />
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And a frog prince.<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-68712347213247010452015-04-28T02:25:00.000-07:002015-04-28T02:25:06.975-07:00Dutch weekendI made a last-minute solo trip to the Netherlands this weekend because Hester was free, the weather forecast for Monday was good, the tulips were in bloom, and Monday was King's Day!<br />
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Sunday I travelled to Voorburg and Hester's family took me on a drive to Gouda and to see the polders and windmills.<br />
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These first few pictures are of the town of Gouda.<br />
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The polders are the low-lying areas protected by dikes. Narrow roads run on the dikes. This is also an area of the Netherlands with lots of windmills.<br />
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King's Day is the annual celebration of the King's birthday (though it was Queen's day until last year!). It is a national holiday. Children use the holiday to set up tables to sell their stuff, using money to then buy other kids' stuff. It is like a big national garage sale.<br />
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The traditional treat for King's day is the Tompouce, iced orange in honor of the House of Orange.<br />
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On Monday Hester, Marius and I went to Keukenhof. We rented bikes and rode through the tulip fields and also visited the park. It was a beautiful day!<br />
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very lucky to have beautiful weather our first day on Santorini. We visited to a black sand beach where it was warm
enough to wade if not to swim. (Gail's note: Mom says, "warm enough to wade," when she dipped a toe in and said "That's cold. I'm not wading in that." True to her word, she leapt backwards anytime a wave came anywhere
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We went to Fira and explored some, hiking down to the water and then taking the cable car back up. Unfortunately the museum we'd hoped to visit was closed and the traffic was terrible in the city. We drove on to Oia, where we were staying. We had a little trouble finding our hotel, but as elsewhere in Greece, people are amazingly friendly. A café owner called our hotel to find out where it was. I was a little worried as it was on the "wrong" side of the road, but it turned out to have a terrace with a gorgeous view of the caldera. I spent a very happy afternoon in the sun reading and eating cookies. </div>
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We had dinner at a great Thai restaurant (really!) called Paradox and then went to watch the sunset, which is the big event of the day in Oia. It was gorgeous. We went back to the restaurant as we'd promised Gail fried bananas (Gail's note: Yum!), and the restaurant owner said they were on the house! The food was so good that we went back the next day.<br />
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Wednesday, our last full day in Greece, was somewhat stormy and very cloudy. We still enjoyed walking a bit on the path between the towns, walking around town, and having a fish pedicure. It's good to do something utterly silly while on vacation.<br />
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<br />Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-71739785282462321722015-04-22T09:21:00.000-07:002015-04-22T09:21:43.629-07:00Hydra and EpidavrosHydra is one of the most popular Greek islands to visit, mainly because it's really easy to reach! We drove to Metochi, the coastal town, not at all
sure that we'd be able to catch a ferry, but it was running and we got there
and parked with 10 minutes to spare. It's a pretty short trip to Hydra from there.
We didn’t quite get the peace and quiet we'd planned for the day - there was a
25-mile trail race ending in the town of Hydra and the port area was filled
with loud music and obnoxious whistles that lasted nearly the whole time we
were there. No cars are allowed on the island (donkeys are the most-used
alternative) and it's fun to just wander the streets and admire the scenery. We
also walked a bit on the coastal path, made friends with some cats, and had the
best ice cream of our trip to Greece at the Cool Mule on the harbor.<br />
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On our drive back to Nafplio we stopped at Epidavros. There's not much to see there but a theater; however, the theater is amazing! It's from about 300 BC and is surprisingly intact. The acoustics are astounding - from the center of the stage you can be heard with very little effort by those in the farthest seats and your own voice echoes back to you.<br />
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The drive actually didn't take quite as long as we expected, so we stopped at Mycenae on our way to Nafplio. Mycenae is much older than the other sites we'd visited - it was at its peak between 1600 and 1200 B.C. It is basically a fortress on a hill. The scale of the walls was amazing - 40 feet high and 20 feet thick. There were also grave circles and an underground cistern to explore.<br />
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We visited the Treasury of Atreus, a bit away from the fortress, which was an enormous beehive-shaped structure (filled with, of all things, living bees) that was the burial ground for royalty. It was built into a hillside and is enormous.<br />
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<br />Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-52115689283493004472015-04-18T12:52:00.001-07:002015-04-18T12:52:44.094-07:00Olympia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Olympia was another really fun site to visit. There are not a
lot of buildings intact there, but enough to get a feel for the size of the
place. The marble starting blocks are still in the stadium, so of course Gail
and Wayne ran a race, one we're officially calling a tie. We also visited the Olympia archaeological
museum, also quite small, but with a model of the site, statues from the
pediments of the Temple of Zeus (I loved the portrayal of the battle of the
Lapiths and centaurs), and the statue of Hermes. We ate dinner at a "Thea," which had good
reviews online; we were unimpressed. Gail summed it up nicely when she said,
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beer." The town of Olympia seems to exist just for tourists. The shops
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Wednesday morning we headed west to Delphi. We stopped first at the Sanctuary of Apollo. This
was probably my favorite site in Greece. The stadium was amazingly intact. What
I liked about this site was that there was enough remaining to really be able
to visualize what it was like in ancient Greece. It was also a beautiful day
and the views from the site are stunning. After that visit we found our hotel,
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After we ate Wayne and I went to the Delphi archaeological museum, where we practically had the place to ourselves. It's a small museum, but with some nice pieces, including the Sphinx of Naxos.<br />
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<o:p></o:p>Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-43386185016454668962015-04-18T02:38:00.002-07:002015-04-22T10:51:31.708-07:00Athens<div class="MsoNormal">
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company) just a few days later, it was certainly on our minds. Then the pilot
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We spent our first full day in Greece in the Acropolis, of
course! It was an easy walk from our apartment in Plaka (a neighborhood in the
center of the city). Seeing something in person that you've seen in hundreds of
pictures is always fun. It was a beautiful day; while there were plenty of
people around, it wasn't as crowded as I imagine it is in the summertime. First
we visited the Odeon of Herodes Atticus (an ancient the<o:p></o:p>ater.) </div>
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Then we walked all around the Acropolis complex and saw the entrance gate (the Propylaea), the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion with the porch of the Caryatids, and had a late picnic lunch on Mars Hill, where long ago the Apostle Paul preached to the Athenians.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visiting the Parthenon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gail at the Parthenon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greek flag flying over the Acropolis</td></tr>
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After lunch we went to the Acropolis Museum. We weren't expecting it to be open on a Monday, but we were pleasantly surprised. The museum is a beautiful building, though most of the exhibits require quite a bit of imagination. There are lots of archaeological fragments, though the Caryatids and the models of the Parthenon pediments were my favorite things.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parthenon Pediment Model - Athena and Poseidon competing for the patronship of Athens</td></tr>
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There's no doubt that the <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/articles/w/what_are_the_elgin_marbles.aspx">Elgin Marbles</a> (currently residing at the British Museum) would be a wonderful addition.<br />
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On Tuesday we visited the Temple of the Olympian Zeus and
Arch of Hadrian, then saw the Theater of Dionysus, which is at the base of the
Acropolis. We then caught the subway up to the National Archaeological Museum,
which was a wonderful museum full of the art of ancient Greece. It's also a
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<span style="text-align: start;">For dinner we had Greek pies from Ariston. My favorite was definitely the red pepper pie - kind of like spanikopita but with red peppers and onions. After dinner we took a walk to see the Acropolis at night, which was beautiful.</span><br />
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On our trip back to Athens on our way to Santorini we visited the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">And on the very last day, between our flight in from Santorini and our flight out to Frankfurt, I made a solo trip into town to see a few more things . . .</span><br />
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</span>Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-85714951712150670272015-02-28T02:52:00.004-08:002015-02-28T02:52:39.352-08:00Market dayErrands on Saturday morning are never my favorite thing, but today I couldn't help but enjoy them and be thankful for the opportunity to live here.<br />
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Today was the first day I've seen bedding plants - spring must be close! Maybe?<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-84138112390218357902015-02-17T02:05:00.000-08:002015-02-17T02:05:05.418-08:00RosenmontagAs I write this on Tuesday morning, all is quiet. Schools are still closed, but the partying has ended. The big parade on Monday was amazing - four hours of bands, floats, marching groups, candy. tissues, toys. Unlike in New Orleans, no beads and no nudity. We watched about an hour of it from the street and the rest from our apartment. From our kitchen and from Gail's room we had a good view though we're a block of the route since building behind us is very low. After the parades there were concerts at Höfchen and at Schillerplatz. We went briefly the the closer one and the crowd was pretty mellow. <div>
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This is a reference to a major bridge over the Rhein that dropped several centimeters and has been closed. It's a traffic nightmare in this area.<br />
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At the bus stop: no buses in the inner city - closest operating bus stop is at the train station.<br />
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Cleanup started less than 15 minutes after the parade: first the sweepers, then the front-end loader acting as a giant dustpan for the garbage truck, then the mechanical sweepers.<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-49240801948470494062015-02-15T11:29:00.000-08:002015-02-15T11:29:03.852-08:00Fasching in Mainz - Sunday!<div style="text-align: center;">
Sunday we went out again to enjoy Fasching. Lots of stuff for kids again today.</div>
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On Sunday the floats for Monday's parade are on display. It's great to see them up close, especially for the non-native German speaker as they often have quite a bit of text and/or you need to understand political context to get the joke.<br />
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This one is called "Problem Bear" and features a likeness of Putin. This style is pretty typical - the front has a rhyme that kind of explains the float and the artistry on them is pretty amazing.<br />
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Americans should appreciate this one, featuring Obama as a lame duck. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">With the Republicans as a shark after him.</span></div>
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This one features the first female secretary of defense for Germany.</div>
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Here's one about drug problems.</div>
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And a food safety themed one on the "invasion" of doctored food. Notice that the headless, bleached chicken is carrying an American flag.</div>
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It's not all political. We also went to a fun concert and enjoyed the crowds (along with a German beer!).</div>
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-32273110768776170672015-02-15T01:49:00.001-08:002015-02-15T01:49:37.206-08:00Fasching in Mainz SaturdaySaturday was the Jugendmaskenzug (Young people's mask parade). The theme this year was "The animal world celebrates Fassenacht" so all the school groups had animal themes. Gail participated with a friend, helping with some younger kids.<br />
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Some of the groups in the parade were the Carnival clubs, which just wear their usual outfits.<br />
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Some groups were pretty elaborate, like these spiders. I loved the web. </div>
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This is one of the clubs in their "normal" outfit.</div>
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This one made us laugh because it looked so much like an American marching band. </div>
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A few floats in this parade, though it was mainly just marchers.</div>
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These are marchers from one of the old Carnival Clubs</div>
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Gail waving the flag for her marching group.</div>
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Gail with her friend Leah. And some guy behind them. </div>
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Some shops around the main area of festivities are boarding up their windows - this one using Fasching colors. </div>
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Even the statue of Gutenberg is decorated for the event.<br />
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TV cameras are set up at the main grandstand for the parade viewing.<br />
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Etiquette reminders are posted (The pisser is a pitiful costume.) It's a 35 Euro fine for "Wildpinkeln."<br />
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Clean up has already begun.<br />
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And, to pick up a theme of the level of kids' independence here - a small girl, wearing her Fasching costume (or maybe she just likes skeleton tights!) doing a little grocery shopping.<br />
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<span id="goog_2026513613"></span>Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-21456677704386418252015-02-12T08:37:00.001-08:002015-02-12T08:37:51.908-08:00Fasching in Mainz - Thursday!Fasching (Carnival) is a BIG deal in Mainz! So my goal is to put up a short post every day between now and Tuesday sharing some of the party! The first few are from the train station today. All the Fasching decorations are in blue, yellow, red, and white.<br />
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There are stands everywhere should you be unprepared for Fasching fashion.<br />
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And parades everywhere, even IN the train station.<br />
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These are from a concert/street party. This is Thursday afternoon - I can only imagine what Monday and Tuesday will be like!<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-80431625260120446112015-02-12T08:25:00.001-08:002015-02-12T08:25:32.126-08:00FrankfurtDespite living so close to Frankfurt, we rarely actually visit! With Jenni here, though, we had an excuse to go and a fun day in the city. This first was just a fun building we saw. It's a lawyer's office.<br />
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We visited the cathedral, of course. I forgot my camera, and my phone doesn't take great pictures in low light, but I thought this altar was really beautiful, as was the organ.<br />
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This is the view of the city across the Main River. We had visited the <a href="http://www.staedelmuseum.de/en">Städel Museum</a> and took this picture as we walked back to the train station across a wonderful pedestrian bridge. The Städel was a nice surprise - I wasn't really expecting much, but it's a good art museum. I especially loved all the room full of works by Max Beckmann (only in part because there's usually an animal in each of his pictures so it's fun to look for them!)<br />
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They've built a wall around the old Jewish cemetery and in the wall is a marker for each of the Frankfurt Jews killed in the holocaust - 11,000 of them.<br />
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Not much is left of the old cemetery itself.<br />
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Probably the most famous building in Frankfurt - the town hall.<br />
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<br />Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-24334743011849732672015-02-05T07:34:00.001-08:002015-02-05T07:34:23.687-08:00BonnWe had a lovely day trip to Bonn in January. We visited the cathedral, of course.<br />
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We walked around the outside of the university in Bonn, enjoying one of the few green spaces in the city.<br />
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We also visited 2 museums - the very excellent German history museum in Bonn and a special exhibition on space exploration at the art museum. First the German history museum, which covers, basically, from WWII to present day. The museum begins with the Holocaust and then moves into the post-war period. There was a reproduction of a newspaper with graphic pictures from the Holocaust and the headline: "This disgraceful deed: your debt." I'm not including the photo here, as it's quite disturbing.<br />
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This picture is from a display of the reconstruction that happened in the first ten years after the war, showing a number of cities (this one is Kassel). Most of the reconstruction was done by women, children, and old men, given that men of fighting age were either dead or, at least in the period immediately after the war, in POW camps.<br />
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The story of the Berlin airlift <span style="font-family: inherit;">is a great tale. (<span style="background-color: white; color: #382110; line-height: 1.1;">Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949 is a good account of it if you're interested.) They were often called "raisin bombers" for the very popular boxes of raisins they dropped, and this is a model someone made of one from raisins.</span></span><br />
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I didn't take any pictures of the space exhibition (I would've gotten Darth Vader if pictures were allowed) but it was an odd mix of history and technology with art and fantasy. They were combined in a way not typical of American museums. My favorite part was a wooden sphere that you could crawl into, and then could see the northern and southern hemisphere constellations via tiny holes in the wood.<br />
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We also came upon a demonstration in front of the city hall of Bonn. It had to do with keeping a particular school open.<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-29718810830429045942015-02-01T05:01:00.000-08:002015-02-01T05:01:48.186-08:00Sunday morning at the bakery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-5879097029562040742015-01-18T03:48:00.002-08:002015-01-18T03:48:34.920-08:00Worms!While friends were visiting we took a day trip to Worms, which is a great little city to visit. It is most famous as being the location of the trial of Martin Luther where he was declared a heretic. It has a beautiful Romanesque cathedral, a Jewish cemetery that survived the war, and a rebuilt synagogue and museum of Jewish life. One can also visit a museum to the Nibelungenlied, which left me a bit baffled.<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-78265582397660674112015-01-08T07:51:00.002-08:002015-01-08T07:51:36.608-08:00Lorch, Freiburg, Lörrach, and Baden BadenJust after Christmas we took a short trip to the Black Forest area of Germany. We stopped first in Lorch to see the 8th century Abbey (a World Heritage site) and, oddly enough, the largest tobacco museum in Germany. Who knew?<br />
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From there we went to Freiburg, where we spent several days.Our first evening we ate in a bar/restaurant with great bathrooms.<br />
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The highlight of Freiburg is the cathedral. Gail swears it's a federal law that every cathedral in Germany must have scaffolding on it.<br />
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Inside it's beautiful. In different sections of the church one can see the different architectural styles of the periods in which it was built. This is the high altar, decorated for Christmas.<br />
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Where there's a tower we'll climb the tower, even in the snow!<br />
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The stained glass in the cathedral is beautiful. Many of the windows were sponsored by various professional guilds many centuries ago.<br />
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There are lots of beautiful buildings in Freiburg!<br />
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And we also found this disturbing stained glass in a small church. Never seen anything quite like it.<br />
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The sidewalks in Freiburg are all made of river stone. Tradition dictates that a symbol of the business be incorporated into the sidewalk in front of the building. </div>
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Our friends Fabienne and Michel and their kids met us in Lörrach for lunch and we also visited the Vitra design museum, which was really fun (and a better choice on a very snowy day than the hike we'd planned!) </div>
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<br />One of the goals was to go sledding in the Black Forest. Ironically, there was too much snow and we couldn't safely drive to any of the areas where there's good sledding. So we did a little in town and a little on the way back with our friends in Neuthard. We also stopped at the Baden Baden Christmas Market.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882963122775420612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074398060096616211.post-53898089190434173822014-12-09T05:00:00.000-08:002014-12-09T05:00:25.482-08:00Belatedly, BambergLast month we spent a great day in Bamberg with our friend Karo as host. I'm a little late posting pictures of this beautiful World Heritage Site town.<br />
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