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And More Fun Tours
The first tour was with my work colleagues and led us to the Solling Nature Park. There is an area where it is attempted to reestablish a historical wood pasture like it was common since the time of...
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Off To Hunt
some more castles and cathedrals.As mentioned before, I'll be off along another bit of the Romanesque Road that connects a number of churches and castles in Saxony-Anhalt that have at least significant...
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Vineyards and Rivers
And finally some photos of the surroundings. You can't travel in the Saale-Unstrut region without catching some vineyeards - the area is famous for its wines.Vineyard in the morning sun, seen from my...
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There Were Churches, Too
A jewel on the Romanesque Road is the monastery of Memleben. Albeit only ruins remain, it is indeed a pretty place to visit, especially in sunshine. There most likely was a palatine seat during...
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Big Castles, We Got Them
So we followed some stations on the Romanesque Road in southern Saxony-Anhalt, and kept running into castles. Like this one we saw from the breakfast room in our hotel - what a nice view to wake up to....
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Trees and a Squirrel
We got some glorious autumn days right now, and since the way to my job place goes through part of the Forest Botanical Garden, I decided to bring my camera yesterday.My way to work (well, after I got...
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Border Castles and Conflicts - Castle Reichenbach
OK, I admit the title sounds more Scottish than it is, but some castles along the borders of Thuringia / Hessia / Lower Saxony have seen a fair bit of action thanks to sitting at the borders of former...
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Happy Halloween
I wish everyone a happy Halloween. Don't overeat on the sweets you trick-and-treated. :)Halloween is still not so common here though last year we got a few kids doing the rounds. This year there have...
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Autumn in the Mecklenbruch Bog
I said I would return to the Mecklenbruch Bog in autumn, and I did. The atmosphere was pretty different though it was a sunny day as well. So here are some photos.A view from the tower Somehow, autumn...
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We Interrupt the Regular Schedule
To announce that Nano is going suprisingly well. I already have more words now than I did at the end of November in my best year (12K in 2008). I got that kickstart I so badly needed, it seems. Another...
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Just Some Fun Pics
Nano is going surprisingly well. I broke the 20K last night, and that's a lot more than I ever got before, with a few days still to go. Maybe those lads helped gathering words.Squirrels; a carving in...
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Nano 2012 is Over
I finished with a whopping 26,507 words which is a bit more than a half-Nano, and I admit I'm proud I got so much. I thank everyone for their comments and encouragement during November. Now I can only...
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Advent in Germany
With some winter wonderland to boot. Though I don't think it will last long; snow seldom does around here.View from my balcony a few minutes agoInside, it's nice and warm, the candles are burning and I...
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The Unfinished Gate - The Porta Nigra in Trier, Part 1
Salvete amici, it's me, Aelius Rufus. Yes, it is quite some time you last saw me, and I had to have a word with Gabriele about the lack of Roman posts. She's always traveling to those barbarian places,...
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Merry Christmas
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas, or Fröhliche Weihnachten.No candles as illustration this time; I found something a bit different on the Orbit Publisher website. Not exactly a Roman lorica segmentata...
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Happy New Year
I wish everyone a happy New Year 2013.Here's a bit of Russian golden splendour to enjoy.Isaac's Cathedral, detailIt's a ceiling decoration of a side chapel from the Isaac's Cathedral in St.Petersburg....
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Border Castles and Conflicts - Castle Sichelnstein
Like most other minor castles I've posted about, the beginnings of the Sichelnstein are shrouded in obscurity and some names that may have been local legend rather than historical. To make things...
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Russian Splendour - The Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg
While I'm waiting for a book about the history of Göttingen that should put some light onto Otto of Braunschweig-Göttingen (Otto the Quarrelsome) for a post about him, here's some more Russian shiny...
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Russian Splendour - The Smolny Cathedral in St. Petersburg
Cathedrals are among the architectonic highlights of St.Petersburg and so the bus tours through town try to cover as many of them as they can cram into 3 or 4 hours. One photo stop was at the Smolny...
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More Neva Impressions
First I had to fight a nasty crud and then there was a lot of stress at my job (and half of the staff sick with the same crud), so I didn't update my blog, nor do I have time for a long,...
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