Jörg explained that this is Rapunzel's tower. Every summer during the many festivals on the castle grounds, crowds of children stand at the base of the tower and shout for Rapunzel to let down her hair.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Ludwigsburg Castle, Part 3: Rapunzel's Tower
Jörg explained that this is Rapunzel's tower. Every summer during the many festivals on the castle grounds, crowds of children stand at the base of the tower and shout for Rapunzel to let down her hair.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Ludwigsburg Castle, Part 2: the rooms
The king's bedroom. Most of the castle is a mirror along the N/S axis, so the duchess/queen has identical rooms where applicable. The chair to the right of the bed is the main reason I wouldn't want to live in this time period - no plumbing.
This room was under renovation during my visit, so I couldn't go to the middle of the floor where this perspective trick is most powerful.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Ludwigsburg Castle, Part 1
Here I'm about halfway between the two castles.
The local children were swarming the hillside a few weeks ago in the snow. There was a clear path from the castle wall to the bottom a a neighboring valley between the hills, with about three flat stretches in between. It looked like a 50-75 foot elevation change at something like a 30 degree angle, though that's just the average. The two steps up to the castle were more like 45 degrees. This view from inside shows the hill all the way down on the right.
Herzog Ludwig was a BIG GUY. In his middle years, he was 7'6" and 450lbs. He eventually couldn't sleep lying down, so had to sleep in chairs.
I didn't catch it in the tour, but perhaps these are urns in the hallway?
The castle has a bunch of original artwork and sculpture (of course), and some very interesting rooms, which will all be in the next post.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
World's lonliest bench
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Snowy weekend
The soccer field was completely deserted for a change. I felt weird taking pictures of all the sledding kids, so I didn't.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Vacation in Baden-Wuerttenberg
The streets were basically empty. I couldn't go grocery shopping, so I decided to walk around town instead. Not too many interesting shots, though. Here's the Hundler Restaurant, with just a dusting of snow.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
The details
What am I supposed to be blogging about? I know there was something…
We have about a million pictures, and I had a bunch of things to say about each one, but throw all the pictures in one folder, give me a week or two, and I can't come up with an interesting story to save my life.
I guess that's why you're supposed to keep travel diaries and blogs. So that you will always remember the stories that are so important you'll forget them a week later.
Yup. Blogging is all about the memorable things.
So…a post. How about some pictures?
A dragonfly.
Doesn't he have a funny little face?
Did you know that they can tilt their heads to look at you quizzically?
Me either.
We spent a long time sizing one another up on Saturday afternoon. I guess a macro lens must look pretty odd with all those eyes.
A sunset.
Gorgeous, impossible to adequately capture on film (or in pixels, if you want to be all accurate about it).
One thing I really love about this apartment is the west-facing window.
A cat.
Wondering why I think it's funny that she's tucked herself into bed and pulled up the covers, and why I'm disturbing her nap.
Small things.
The details of life.