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Apr 21, 2019
Tank Trail next to Ledward Barracks, Schweinfurt, Germany
April 21, 2019 By 1 Comment
We spent the past couple of days, Good Friday and Good Saturday, in the Schweinfurt area, and arrived at Ledward Barracks on our way to the village of Hambach. We turned into tank tail road heading to ‘Yorktown’, but had forgotten the road is sealed off for regular traffic. Which wasn’t always the case 30+ years ago…
This corner of Ledward Barracks still looks untouched.
Heading towards Kessler Field. It was a gorgeous day to be out and about.
In the late 1980s, the building on the right was part of an infantry battalion.
Soon after this part of Ledward, we had to turn around to get back onto Niederwerrner Straße. These buildings appear to have been part of the motor pool.
This is an update on the current works at Ledward Barracks. This part hasn’t changed much, as far as I can see. But in my next post, I will take you around the other side of Ledward Barracks.
I hope you’re buckled in for this ride.
Sep 19, 2014
Balcony Harvest in September
September 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
We have someone in the family who likes to have a daily dose of fruit salad. While I was making it, I remembered having seen one of the last ripe strawberries on the hanging planter on the balcony. We are heading towards late September by now.
I managed to pick one for the center topping, before I got sidetracked by another little plant.
This is what one of the strawberry planters looks like in June.
While picking the strawberry, I found this baby pine tree within the leaves of the strawberry plants. September is the time to repot trees (by now I’m an expert on baby trees), so I started digging for soil in one of the floor planters.
My, my, what a surprise. I had a potato plant earlier in the summer, raised from an old wrinkled potato. When it was time for harvest I must have overlooked these two. Are they edible? Of course, they are.
My balcony life never seizes to amaze me. Of course, it is not all my doing, but nature itself. I feed the birds on a regular basis, not with store-bought seeds, but with old bread. They in turn bless my planters and soil with seeds from their other end. 🙂 The perfect cycle of life.
Dec 31, 2013
A Good Reason to Travel
December 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
— William Least Heat Noon —
Sketched by Momoko Fujita
Jul 15, 2013
Review for Inn on Frederick in St. Andrews, Canada
July 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
We spent two nights at the Inn on Frederick in St. Andrews. It has the perfect location sitting in the center of town, but yet one block away from Main Street, so it is fairly quiet. It is also in walking distance – just cross Main Street – to Passamaquoddy Bay.
We had booked the vacation home as the price for two double rooms at the same inn was almost equal to the price of the house, and yes, this was the better choice for us.
The innkeeper, Mr. Jay Chung, is a very accommodating fellow. Don’t be fooled by his college-age looks – he’s got a 16-year daughter, who helped serve breakfast in the morning.
I mostly enjoyed the privacy of the porch.
We made very little use of the livingroom and kitchen downstairs, but mostly ate out.
The bedrooms and bathrooms are on the second floor.
The inn’s breakfast, we all agreed on, was phenomenal. The first morning, we had an omelet wrapped in crepe, with fresh fruit and yoghurt on the side.
The second morning’s breakfast was just as inviting to our eyes.
And yes, we slept well in this air conditioned house during this very hot weekend of 33 C. Our son used the jacuzzi a couple of times, we had our rooms cleaned and refurbished each day, and we had a very pleasant time there.
I highly recommend it, if you come here as a family.
