Tag: germany
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Sylt and a day at the beach
at Sylt at the ebb of tourists in the middle of March. Despite the warming sun of noon, the wind chills and staying outdoors too long cools you to the bone.
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List auf Sylt and Ellenbogen
If the wind doesn’t blow too hard, it can be an easy ride from List to the north-end of Sylt, where the two lighthouses stand. Otherwise the predominant west winds can make it a long way back.
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Sylt, dunes and a wooden plank path
leaving behind a settlement of reet thatched roof houses a wooden plank path leads west and north to the dunes now bathed in sunset light.
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Graswangtal again
a valley, springs, streams merging into the Ammer and snow tipped ranges. If the world has to end in a swirl of war, I’ll make here my ending.
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a meeting of purpose and the Fagus-Werk
three exceptional persons met in time and place in Alfeld, Lower Saxony in 1910 to create and build a dream; the Fagus-Werk.
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Celle and suddenly Bauhaus
landmarks of Bauhaus architecture and lifestyle mix with the traditional timber framed houses of the old city center in Celle.
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yew woods and Paterzell
Several stations set along the path in the Yew woods of Paterzell guide the eye of the wandered to the particulars of this tree.
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Paul-Heyse tunnel and infamous infrastructure
some works of infrastructure happen to become social spaces of gathering like the Hackerbrücke and others become infamous places like the Paul-Heyse tunnel.
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