winter

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Winter Landscapes around Oberursel
ByMaria January 17, 2016

We’ve had a fairly mild winter up until mid-week. A few days ago, it started getting colder and we got some long-awaited snow. I recognized my photo opportunity right there and then. El Niño could be back in a flash. ‘Glück ist der Zufall, der auf Bereitschaft trifft.’, I heard on TV yesterday. Basically, your…

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Beer Balcony

Beer Balcony in Winter
ByMaria January 4, 2016

Overnight, today being 4 January 2016, we got our first snow of the winter, but some drizzly rain had washed most of it away by the late afternoon. But it did look beautiful this morning, when I stepped out on the balcony with some coffee in hand. Oberursel lies at the foot of the Taunus…

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Places of interest in and around Oberursel

Sledding and Oberreifenberg/Taunus in the Winter
ByMaria January 1, 2015

Driving up from Oberursel to visit some friends in Oberreifenberg one afternoon, we passed these wintery scenes. Sledding at the Sandplacken Pass (669m), which is between Oberursel and Schmitten. View onto St. Georg Church in Oberreifenberg For more, follow me on: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Places of interest in and around Oberursel

Fuchstanz Restaurant in the Taunus Mountains
ByMaria December 27, 2014

Just yesterday, before we were hit with all that snow coming down today and delaying arrivals and departures from Frankfurt Airport for up to five hours, we decided to go up the Taunus Mountains to find some snow, and the beauty of it. Yesterday afternoon, we parked our car at the parking lot within the…

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Margo Brooks on Schweinfurt Military Housing – Askren Manor: “You must have lived there same time frame as I did. I went to the school in 7th and 8th…”
Margo Brooks on Schweinfurt Military Housing – Askren Manor: “We lived on big oak second floor. Last building before little oak. Around 67/68. Friends Elizabeth Taylor. Cindy Lezite. .…”
Margo Brooks on Schweinfurt Military Housing – Askren Manor: “I lived there around 67/68. Lived on second floor on the end of Big Oak Street. Cindy Bowman lived on…”