On a rare sunny afternoon, we passed these sheep on our way to our forest garden. Note how green the grass is in August in Germany.
Visitors to our area always claim how green Germany is. This year there is even more of it as we had little sun, lots of rain, and many dark days.
There is a nasty looking weather front moving in right now, it is time to close all the windows again…
Spring has come! Actually it has been here for a while, since my hyacinths and daffodils started sprouting in early February and now they are just about to bloom. What a mild winter we’ve had. My longtime friend Udo contacted me since he was passing through the Frankfurt area and we arranged for a little…
Starting the first week in January 2012, the Verkehrsverband Hochtaunus (VHT) has added additional buses between Oberursel-Hohemark (transfer station for U3 to Frankfurt) and the Feldberg. On Sundays and public holidays: The first bus leaves Oberursel-Hohemark at 9:36 and between 10:36 and 17:36, the bus runs every 30 minutes stopping in Sandplacken, Oberreifenberg, Niederreifenberg on…
While visiting family around the Schweinfurt area, we passed by Askren Manor housing today. This has turned into a ghost town. An article from the Main-Post Newspaper from February 2017 had stated that 28 of the 34 apartment buildings would be demolished by the spring of 2018. The design for the new German housing development…
When we bought our garden in Schlossborn, the actual selling factor was that nothing could be planted. So if nothing could be planted, I had nothing to care for. “Bought”, we told the sellers. We were not interested in the subsidized German Schrebergarten as it comes with lots of regulations and the Schrebergarten Polizei will…
If you are a newcomer to Germany and/or the city of Oberursel, you might be interested in watching this cultural (and pagan) event downtown Oberursel on 11 February 2018. Fasching (also known as Fastnacht or Karnival) begins on the 11th day of the 11th month at 11:11 a.m. every year. The real festivities begin the…
Our current guest, Lady, enjoys the beer balcony too. I suppose she experiences her own ‘dog days of summer’ during this current heat wave. Lady, our charge for two weeks until tomorrow. We will miss her.
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♪Oberursel, das Tor zum Taunus!♫ 🙂
(C) whoever wrote/sung that song 😛