Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany - 16th February 2008
By: Pandamao
For the weekend we visited our Pandamao's dad. He lives in a small town in the North-East of Bavaria. I took a walk in the city center - nice houses. The battery of the camera was low so I only took photos of the houses.
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Posted Feb 16, 2008, 9:57 pm
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München, Germany - 18th February 2008
By: Pandamao
The weather was sunny but cold. We went for a walk (together with half of Munich's inhabitants) to Nymphenburg Castle and park.
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Posted Feb 18, 2008, 7:23 pm
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München, Germany - 22nd March 2008
By: Pandamao
It's been a long time since I last was out. Today I went for a little walk and saw the German museum (Science and Technic museum). It is built on a little island in the Isar river.
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Posted Mar 22, 2008, 3:51 pm
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Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany - 24th March 2008
By: Pandamao
HAPPY EASTER!
Today it's Easter Monday and Pandamao went to this little town in the Oberpfalz to see her dad and she took me along.
We walked along the street and wondered what was going on in that little park opposite. When we came closer we saw that it was an "Easter fountain". In this part of Bavaria it's the custom to decorate the fountains with Easter eggs. There must be hundreds or thousands of eggs here. They really look beautiful.
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Posted Mar 24, 2008, 11:22 pm
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München, Germany - 28th March 2008
By: Pandamao
I did some more sight-seeing with the other TVs today and went to the area where the Hofbräuhaus is located. The first photo shows the Orlando House and then I pose in the front of the nearby Hofbräuhaus. It is a huuuuuuuge beerhall.
I also met some local bears. We had a nice conversation about TVs and traveling the world but the Bavarian bears did not want to join. Seems, that they would miss their Sunday morning beer Stammtisch (regulars' table) at the Hofbräuhaus too much.
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Posted Mar 28, 2008, 11:06 pm
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München, Germany - 28th March 2008
By: Pandamao
Then I took a look at the "Alter Hof", which was the first residence of the Wittelsbach dynasty, built in the 13th century.
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Posted Mar 28, 2008, 11:21 pm
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München, Germany - 30th March 2008
By: Pandamao
Today I went to the Perlach Cemetery to see the graves of Hans and Sophie Scholl.
But who are they? This is an example of what I found in the internet.
"During Hitler's reign over Germany in the 30's and 40's, few people stood up against him and those who did were quickly snuffed out. The punishment for treason against the Reich was severe and public. Everyone knew what would happen to them if they were caught. But even with the knowledge of what would happen to them, a group of college students called the White Rose (die Weiße Rose) began distributing anti-Hitler flyers around Munich in 1941. They protested against hate; using graffiti and printing leaflets against the Nazis with messages to rebel against Hitler and to stop him. The White Rose distributed their flyers all over the country, mailing them from different cities, leaving them in trains and shops, risking their lives to try to save Germany.
The leaders were in their 20's: Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, Willi Graf, Alex Schmorell and Christoph Probst. One of their greatest influences was a philosophy professor at the University of Munich, Kurt Huber.
The group had created five leaflets and distributed hundreds of copies of each by February of 1943. That month a high-ranking officer gave a speech at the University of Munich that caused an uproar among the students. The next day Hans and Sophie decided to distribute pamphlets at the university, but were caught by a janitor, who saw them throw flyers from a balcony. In less than a week, Hans, Sophie, and Christoph were tried, convicted, and sent to the guillotine. In the next year, many others in the group followed the same path.
The members of the White Rose possessed bravery that few people have. They gave up their lives rather than live and remain silent when such awful things were going on. Because of their efforts, many average citizens found out more about what was actually going on, and people were encouraged that others thought like they did. Many started doing small things to hinder the Nazis goals. Today there are many schools in Germany named after members of the White Rose, so people can be reminded that anyone can help destroy tyranny."
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Posted Mar 30, 2008, 10:15 pm
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Feldafing, Germany - 23rd April 2008
By: Pandamao
I took a tour to Feldafing at the Starnberger See (Starnberg Lake). First I had to cross the golf course - in the background you can see the lake. Then I helped my host to pick some bear's garlic which grows there wild.
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Posted Apr 30, 2008, 9:31 pm
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Feldafing, Germany - 23rd April 2008
By: Pandamao
I took a nice walk along the lake side (Starnberger See). The sun was shining, it was a beautiful spring day and I could even see the Alpes.
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Posted Apr 30, 2008, 9:56 pm
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Türkenfeld, Germany - 1st May 2008
By: Pandamao
As it was a nice spring day we all went out for a walk to Türkenfeld. It's about 45 minutes with the train outside of Munich. The colours of the tree leaves are beautiful, you only find this colour in spring time.
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Posted May 6, 2008, 10:43 pm
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Türkenfeld, Germany - 1st May 2008
By: Pandamao
Our host is very interested in herbs so we helped her to search for them. We found lots of blooming wild violets and helped our host to pick them because she wanted to make sirup of them. If we would not have helped her she surely would have needed a long time to fill the small container.
Later we also found woodruff which will be dried and used for tea and food flavouring.
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Posted May 6, 2008, 11:02 pm
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Türkenfeld, Germany - 2nd May 2008
By: Pandamao
We went out for another walk to pick herbs at Türkenfeld. We found chickweed, deadnettle, chervil and lots of other herbs.
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Posted May 7, 2008, 9:57 pm
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München, Germany - 2nd May 2008
By: Pandamao
Yesterday we had sorrel soup for dinner (delicious!!) and today we used the herbs for chickweed salad, then deadnettle lasagna and wild herb quiche ... I could not resist and tried every single dish. For the quiche I helped to collect more than 10 herbs: chickweed, deadnettle, silverweed, yarrow, sorrel, stinging nettle, dandelion, meadow sweet, ribwort, beech leaves, daisies, chervil, violet leaves .... I think that's about all of them. And all of the dishes were really tasting great.
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Posted May 7, 2008, 10:34 pm
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Frankfurt, Germany - 17th May 2008
By: Pandamao
I made a trip to Frankfurt on the weekend. The photos show the view of the Frankfurt skyline taken from a bridge over the Main river.
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Posted May 23, 2008, 10:14 pm
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Bellegarde-en-Diois, France - 15th June 2008
By: Pandamao
Pandamao took me to a trip to beautiful Provence in France. We stayed in a little holiday cottage in the middle of the mountains.
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Posted Aug 5, 2008, 10:13 pm
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