admin May 9th, 2007
I just realized I never put online any pictures of my dogs… let’s start with Artù, which should be of the race of yorkshire (at least I think, I’m not an expert). In the picture above, in a rare moment of relax during one of our trips in Austria. Even if he is smelling the nice flavour of a sandwich made with speck and emmental, so isn’t really so relaxed…! 
admin April 29th, 2007
I’ve already talked about Gengenbach, an old medieval village very well mantained, but I found in my photo archive some more interesting images, so I’ve decided to post a quick overview. Starting from this wonderful old well in wood/stone (the flowers fit in really well!):
Below instead there’s one of the town main gates. The town is all surrounded by walls indeed. That tower has even a working clock! Note also the main gate grid … maybe once there was even a castle drawbridge!
But what is really amazing, are the buildings themselves! Everywhere there are pastel colours, flowers hanging out from terraces and in the streets, nearby benches. Below you can see the main square:
And those other houses below, aren’t they beautiful? you can also spot another small well hidden well behind those flowers…
And this angle is something magic! it seems that the time never passed… we found yet another well (or water pump), a tower in the background and of course the classic green present in all the german towns.
The last picture is probably the most curious: it is a sort of resume, painted on a the wall of a townhouse, of Gegenbach’s past history, with some dates…. the only thing I was able to understand for sure was the great fire in 1689 that burned most of the town, which was later rebuild in the year 1700. They rebuilt it really well!
admin March 13th, 2007
The curious image below is the sign of a local pub in Triberg , a town in the heart of the bavarian Black Forest famous for its cuckoo clocks (I’ll talk more extensively about it soon). The text on the sign below, translated sounds more or less like “the cuckoo clock room”. Quite bizarre
