Pompous Passau

Dec 19, 2016 | After The Great Journey, Photos, Trips

Why I travel this much these days?
Good question. Maybe because I notice how easy it is. Maybe because so many more places come to my attention that I want to discover. Maybe also because there are people here and there who I want to see again.

Dear friends from the time in New Zealand are spread across Germany and the whole world. To Passau I didn’t go just to into the blue, for I had a lovely home for the time staying there.

Also, the weather blessed me with luck. And that at the very day I walked m camera. 🙂 Please look at another wonderful German city from above, below, left and right and one fabulous drake:

 

 

 

 

Without a doubt, the highlight of the weekend was not the city itself, but the hours spent together. Every moment shared is worth double. It was a wonderful time! Time before Christmas, I should say.

The last Christmas at home was in 2013. 2014 in Wellington and 2015 in Dunedin. Pretty memorable. This year’s celebration might become the least-routinely Christmas of my life…

Winter Wonder ob der Tauber

Dec 14, 2016 | After The Great Journey, Photos, Trips

You can say what you want about the Deutsche Bahn, but I like to make use of it. Either summer- or Lidl-special-offer-ticket, I saved a lot and got to all the far out corners of Germany in pleasant style.

As this time, to Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Trier, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin you know already, but this little settlement is not as well known. At least not for people who don’t browse the internet for the cutest cities in Germany.
International tourism is fully present in the remarkable old city and was, if not about anything else, only bearable because of the cold season.
I gave myself one day’s time and tried to capture the (Christmas-) wonder of the city.

At noon I walked though the gates of the city.

 

 

A remarkable specimen.

Looking at this, I got the meaning of a city wall back then.

This one shows you very exactly where you stand in the space-time continuum.

 

 

The ‘Plönlein’ is the most famous places to be photographed.

 

 

It went dark quickly, which I welcomed. A medieval city in full Christmas decoration, what more could a photographers heart wish for? 😀

 

 

 

 

Little children ask their mother, clueless: ‘What is he doing?’ and their mother has to explain to them that I am taking photos. Other voices you hear mumbling: Now he’s going at it. Oh, using a tripod!
Do a tripod and a bridge camera look fear-inducing in times of the ever-present photo smartphone??
Apparently they do. 😀

I can recommend visiting this fine city. It is that small that I have dashed from one end to the other several times. On the way(s) I of course took some rests to have some rustic meals and some cups of coffee. I will return here, that is for sure!