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Nano Update
The National Novel Writing Month it is going better than I expected. I reached the halfway point (25,000 words) last night and thus I'm ahead and got a buffer of two days worth of writing.Autumn at the...
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Ain't it Pretty?
I managed to write the required 50,000 words to 'win' Nano. And a few days ahead to boot. When I registered my active participation this year, I had low expectations about the chance to win, but since...
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On the Threshold between Mediaeval Castle and Fortress - The Architecture of...
I got some more photos of Castle Weidelsburg to go with a post that will focuss on the architecture of the castle. The information is taken from the panels displayed throughout the castle (1)Remains of...
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Llama, llama ...
Just a bit of fun today. When I returned from a long stroll in the Open Air Museum Gross-Raden, I found a few interesting guys ouside the entrance hall.Llamas outside the museumThey were surely not...
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Merry Christmas
I wish my friends and visitors of this blog a merry and peaceful Christmas holiday. I hope you can enjoy a bit of quiet after the stress of the last weeks, nice gifts, a good dinner, family, purring...
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Happy New Year
I wish everyone a Happy New Year!The dragon is a symbol of luck in the Chinese mythology, so I think it's an appropriate decoration for this post. I found the snow carving in the ice hotel in Kirkenes...
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Dower of a Polish Queen, Wettin Stronghold, Martin Luther's Hideout - The...
I have mentioned Coburg Fortress, the Veste Coburg in German, in this post where I also gave some tidbits of the geneaology of Queen Victoria of England. The Royal family was known as Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
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The Crown of Franconia - The Architecture of Coburg Fortress
I concentrated on photos of the fortifications and those buildings that date back - at least in some remaining parts - to the Middle Ages in the first post about Coburg Fortress, which is also known as...
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Harbour Impressions from Stralsund
Since I stayed in a hotel on the harbour island adjacent to Stralsund's old town, I had plenty of chances to catch impressions of the harbour district from various angles and in different light. Here...
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Kids in the Rain
When I was in Schwerin - the only really bad weather day during my autumn tour - I found this charming little fountain at a lake called Pfaffenteich. It suited the weather that day, and it pretty much...
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Shiny Things from Viking Times - The Gold Treasure of Hiddensee: The...
On November 13, 1872, a severe northeastern gale swept over the island of Hiddensee, causing a flood that hit the flat southern part of the island, deforested since the Thirty Years War, destroyed...
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A Bit of Sunshine - The Flensburg Firth
The dreary weather between winter and spring has put me in a melancholical mood and makes me long for some real sunshine. So I checked my photos for some pretty pics. Sailing boats on the Flensburg...
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Harbour Impressions from Wismar
I have been to Wismar twice last year, in spring for the brick architecture and in autumn to join a sailing trip on the reconstrcuted cog Wissemara. In spring I got sunshine; in autumn a mix of rain,...
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Happy Easter
I wish my readers a Happy Easter.There is not much in the way of spring outside, so I picked some photos from the spring tour I did last year, when nature was already wearing a veil of fresh...
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Spring Impressions from the Danube
Life is a bit busy right now so here's another short picture post with spring photos, this time from the Danube. View of the Danube from Castle DonaustaufCastle Donaustauf, a formidable ruin, is...
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Spring in the Meissner Mountains
I've posted some photos of the Meissner mountains taken in autumn some time ago. Here is a bunch I took two weeks ago, with the first buds of spring appearing on the trees. Meissner mountains, juniper...
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Shiny Things from Viking Times - The Gold Treasure of Hiddensee: The...
As promised, here is the second post about the Hiddensee Gold Treasure where I'll take a closer look at the pieces, the craftmanship involved in creating them, and the cultural context in which they...
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Unifinshed Perfection - Beaumaris Castle in Wales: The Historical Context
In 1282, King Edward I was done with rebellious Welsh princes and Welsh risings which had plagued his predecessors ever sind William the Conquerer put a foot west of the Dee and Severn (1). He staged a...
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Unifinshed Perfection - Beaumaris Castle in Wales: The Architecture
When work on Beaumaris Castle was finally abandoned in 1330, the curtain walls had been completed and all towers raised to battlement level at least. The inner towers were supposed to have an...
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To Seal the Conquest - Building Conwy Castle in Wales
The Welsh rebellion against King Edward I had failed. Llywellyn ap Gruffud had died in December 1382, Edward had taken the main seat of the Princes of Gwynedd, Dolwyddelan Castle, in January 1283 and...
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