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selenak: (Linda by Beatlemaniac90)
Even Darth Real Life is not able to keep me from my annual Easter Well sight seeing, or the pic spam based on it. Happy Easter to all who celebrate, and hopefully good holidays to everyone:


Heiligenstadt gesamt


More Easter Wells await beneath the cut )
selenak: (KircheAuvers - Lefaym)
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it, and may your holidays be peaceful and full of joy and warmth to everyone! While my annual pic spam will feature the usual Bamberg suspects, I shall open with the amazing AIKO nativity scene I found in Salzburg. You'll find out why. (And what AIKO stands for.)

Volkschule - Krippendetail

The Nativity in Salzburg and Bamberg awaits )
selenak: (City - KathyH)
I had a really busy month, but there was one day I spent in Salzburg, which is easily reachable by train from Munich, where I live, and I had the most magnificent weather. And that city does look like a baroque cake. Which is why you get a Salzburg pic spam before my nativity pic spam during the holidays.


Traumblick auf Salzburg


More Salzburg splendour beneath the cut )
selenak: (Linda by Beatlemaniac90)
Aka the pictorial results of my latest time in the British capital. Despite the occasional rain, it was mostly sunny - and fun. I did return with the unfun sort of cold, though, but never mind, it happens, especially in autumn. Now, photos!


Tower-Yachten-St. Paul
London Town in photos )
selenak: (Linda by Beatlemaniac90)
This past month, I spent a week at various places at Lake Constance, aka The Lake Between Three Countries (Germany, Switzerland and Austria), which despite some bad April weather in between the occasional sunshine is always breathtakingly beautiful to visit. Which means, naturally: a pics pam.


Bodensee  Gesamt


First, I made a brief stop in Bregenz, Austria. Featuring the famous built-into-the-lake opera stage featured in a James Bond movie, so international viewers might dimly recall it.

Bregenz )

Next, I crossed the border to Switzerland and visited St. Gallen, home to one of the most beautiful preserved libraries of the world:

St. Gallen )

The big monastery rival of St. Gallen in the early middle ages was the monastery on the island Reichenau, which is where I went next. (Crossing borders agian to the German part of the lake.) This island is celebrating its 1300th birthday this year, but it's worth visiting at any time, although, unlike St. Gallen, the Reichenau monastery had bad luck from the late middle ages onwards, and so its library disappeared and now the books reside elsewhere, having returned for the first time in centuries fo rthe big anniversary exhibition.


Reichenau )


One great help for Lake Constance visitors is that there's a ferry for cars to use between Constance itself and Meersburg on the other side of the lake. Take it, and spare yourself 70 kilometres country road around the lake. Which is what I did when visiting Meersburg, that medieval delight with Germany's most famous female poet's final resting place.

Meersburg )


Next, I visited Salem. No, not the one with the witches. Or the vampires. The other one. Behold:

Salem )

Before returning to the other side of the lake again via ferry, I paid a visit to Unteruhldingen, where a century ago, Bronze age settlements were found and reconstructed:


Unteruhldingen )

But what about Konstanz itself, you ask? The city that gave its name to the English version of the lake? (It's "Bodensee" in German.) The city that saw a Church synod, the depostion of not one, not two but three Popes at the same time, and the burning of Jan Hus?

Constance )


Back to the opposite site of the church. One laketown that's frequented by people wanting to lose some weight is Überlingen. It has, however, also other attractions. Including another scandalous Statue by Peter Lenk.

Überlingen )

On my day of departure, I finally lucked out with the weather and the sun was with me once more as I visited the one tiny Bavarian part of Lake Constance, to wit, Lindau. Most famous for its gorgeous harbour.

Lindau )

And thus I took my leave of Lake Constance:

Hafen Lindau Gesamt mit See
selenak: (Bamberg - Kathyh)
I had a turbulent last two weeks, especially Easter week, hence the relative scarceness of yours truly online. However, starting with Good Friday, things calmed down, and I was able to visit the Easter Wells we have in Franconian Switzerland again.

Trubach-Quelle

Eggs, Water, Colour: That's Franconia at Easter Time for you! )

Briefly

Feb. 21st, 2024 08:51 am
selenak: (Dragon by Roxicons)
During a quick visit to Berlin this weekend, I visited Charlottenburg Palace for the first time since I was 16, and wow, did they ever get some restoration work done. For a big pic spam, see here.

Also, having read the "Radiant Emperor" duology, I checked whether there is fanfiction, and indeed there is, like Rivers and Mountains, which takes the "character X after their death ends up back in time and has the chance to fix things (or not)" trope and runs with it in a compelling way.
selenak: (Bamberg - Kathyh)
As every year, we strolled around my hometown to admire the beautiful nativity scenes. You'd think surprised on the subject wouldn't be possible; you'd be wrong. As, for example, this creche showing an artisan building a creche:

Krippenbauer Detail

Many more nativity scenes await )
selenak: (Sanssouci)
I took part in a conference there last weekend, which took place next to one of the Berlin VIP of Arts cemeteries and it so happened that September 3rd was also open door day for the Reichstag, our Parliament which I had not had the chance to visit post spectacular Norman Foster restoration, so between conferencing, I visited both. Pic spam time!


Reichstag von der Spree aus

Berlin Sights, Compressed )
selenak: (Goethe/Schiller - Shezan)
Because I spent the most recent days there, and while it wasn't fore leisure, it's a ridiculously pretty (university) town, so of course I took pictures.

Tübingen Panorama

Where poets go mad and professors become Pope )
selenak: (KircheAuvers - Lefaym)
Yours truly has made it back from Portuguese sunshine to German rain, and thus can present the promised addendum to the travel pic spam, since the APs and I this time did manage to get inside the Monasterio dos Jeronimos en route to the airport.

Einbögiger Kuppelblick

Manuelismo alert )
selenak: (Tourists by Kathyh)
On to my last but one post. The very last will be posted from Germany and only happens if I get lucky tomorrow, my departure day, because the flight doesn’t leave until the evening, which means after driving from the Algarve back to Lisbon another crack at the Jeronimo monastery, the inside. This time, I booked tickets. But for now, one more pictorial ode to the beauty of rocks and the sea. For after all that hiking, we did join a boat tour to visit the various grottos and caves sea, erosion and air formed out of rocks from the sea side. And I’m happy to share some of the most beautiful results with you.

Coelho Höhle

Once more into the breach, dear friends )
selenak: (City - KathyH)
Still in beautiful Portugal and exploring the Algarve, this next two parter of a pic spam presents you with cities, churches and storks in the first part, and in the second… well, you’ll find out. But first, after previous pic spams featured the Western half of the Algarve, let’s move on to the East.


Tavira

Of Storks and the Church I Sing )
And this was it for part I. Part II tonight!
selenak: (VanGogh - Lefaym)
On to more exploring of the Algarve. This coast is the most Western part of the Iberian Peninsula.

Sargres blickt auf Leuchtturm

Thalassa, Thalassa! )
selenak: (Linda by Beatlemaniac90)
Once more, I have to split up the accumulated photographic goods. We left Lisbon and first visited Sintra.

Pena Gesamt

Sky of blue and sea of green… )
selenak: (Bayeux)
More Lisbon awaits! This is perhaps my favourite shot I took from the other shore of the Tejo of the city silhouette.

Angler und Lissabon

City of delight )
selenak: (City - KathyH)
For the first time in a good long while, I‘m visiting an European country I‘ve never visited before: Portugal. We‘re starting with Lisbon, and it‘s so gorgeous that I need to pic spams to cover it before moving on to the rest of the country, which the APs and I will do tomorrow. But first:

Panorama mit roter Bücke

The most beautiful harbor of Europe )
selenak: (VanGogh - Lefaym)
For the holidays, I offer a pic spam of our Franconian Easter Wells again, starting with a new one I only discovered this year.

StecherdorfOstermühle

It must be bunnies! )
selenak: (Uthred and Alfred)
Which is what [profile] liraen wanted to know. I have to admit I had to google the word first. Well, one of them certainly is on my balcony of my Munich apartment, not least because I have my fridge with various bottles right at hand there, ditto for my tea, and while the balcony doesn't face the west and thus the setting sun (it faces the south), it's nice and lovely to sit on in the summer. However, for a combination of great sunsets and the consumation of beverages in summer, some other selections come to mind. Luckily, I have pictorial evidence, to be seen under the cut.

Sunsets await )

The other days
selenak: (Bamberg - Kathyh)
...to everyone who celebrates, and be safe if you're in the US and menaced by a snowstorm (or its aftermath). It's my pleasure to share my annual pic spam of the creches and nativity scenes in the churches of Bamberg (and this time, a little bit of Munich) with you again. Welcome to Franconian Bethlehem(s)!

Obere Pfarre Teil 2

More under the cut )

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