By admin, on October 29th, 2011 I had to be 52 years old to learn how a quince (german: Quitte, french: coing) looks like:
Yesterday evening we had a spontaneous dinner with good friends in Bremen where we had swordfish, salmon and sugar beans which came with the last qince of the season here – havested in their backyard garden! As starter a piece of delicious quince cake with a thick meringue-cover, hmmm! Until now I only knew quince-jelly as a bread spread coming from the shelves in good organized supermarkets.
Thank you very much for that new experience of this big yellow, firm fruit and the dinner yesterday, Jutta and Mark!
Posted from Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
By admin, on May 8th, 2011 Making a little stroll through the fields on the countryside to one of the windmills…
on the second day of a kindergarten outing, two fathers wander through the woods and fields of Lower Saxony. Suddenly we stand under the gigantic rotor blades of one of wind turbines you can see everywhere here in the region. Note how the blades are bent at the end by the wind (there were roughly 20 knots wind).
The view wanders over the shadow of the wind turbine and the fields to one the the numerous long, red, solar panel covered buildings between the fields:
 Meat factory - sterile and it is only then, when we realize that we are in the middle of several large-scale livestock farming buildings. It looks like a science fiction setting: the buildings are behind a fence and look extremely clean. Everything: the outside walls, the paved outside of the building, it looks almost sterile.
Then we discover the trace of little pebble-stones that cover supposedly the trench where they put the high-power line of the wind-turbine into the ground and we realize that the trace leads towards the red red buildings of the meat factory.
We decide to stop immediately that habit of eating unconsciously meat and sausage from the super market, to reduce the amount of ‘unconsciously swallowed factory meat’. Instead we will buy from the organic butcher from now on. Even if that means that we’ll have meat only once a week or even less.
Walking back a green colored structure draws our attention. Clean, 6 feet high, with an attached mailbox on the side. We get closer, see there is a not secured top lid of the perhaps 4 x 5 ft. wide box we can open: inside clean again, refrigerated, a shiny stainless steel cart and we assume it might be something for dung or dirt or??? But why should it make sense to refrigerate manure? A look-up on my iPhone enlightens us: Euratainer – oh fuck! A refrigeration box for carcasses!
Modern life on the countryside.
Posted from Groß Ippener, Niedersachsen, Germany.
By admin, on September 25th, 2010  "Zurückbleiben! - Stand back!" Wednesday I made a trip to Berlin for two days. Unbelievable how this city still is full of contradictiions, wit, fascination, thrill, horror – everything next to one another. Beauty and history, urbanity and park landscapes co-existing.
That is the reason why Berlin still is
 The Brandenburg Gate  The Yorckbrücken  Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe my favorite city in Germany: open, friendly, frank and honest. Not everybody like that, I do.
 The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
By admin, on July 20th, 2010 Since ‘Siebenschläfer’ (german version of groundhog day) on June, 27th, we are enjoying this beautiful weather.
Posted from Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
By admin, on July 8th, 2010
After so many times freezing in the north of Germany it is the other way around for once.
Here’s the proof: Petra on our terrace at 9 p.m. calling with Santa Barbara with pleasant 80 degrees F. in Bremen, while it’s in the lower sixties in California.
. . . → Read More: Finally compensational justice
By admin, on February 11th, 2008 Since long we didn’t post anything, but this one seems to be worth it…
The story behind the song, the lyrics are here:It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward . . . → Read More: Barak Obama
By admin, on February 17th, 2007 Unbelieveable! Years after little provincial towns in Europe finally the MTA turns to the 21st century:Arrival times indicated on the platforms! Bravo. Compare my post on 6/4/04.
By admin, on January 29th, 2007 I don’t have to explain why New York was so phantastic again, right?
…here’s a night out at Nike and Alvin’s place – a whole lot of interesting, great people, incredibly delicious food and good discussions until 4 in the morning.
. . . → Read More: A week in New York
By admin, on December 1st, 2006 Petra in NY Originally uploaded by HorstSL.
Well, Petra in New York a couple of weeks ago in the mild sunlight of the sun in Lower Manhattan at Peter’s studio. Posted from Norderstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
. . . → Read More: Petra in NY
By admin, on May 18th, 2006 Just for a change, something different today: some of my favorite video clips available on the net:There are three really funny ads of Volkwagen USA. “Un-pimp your car!”: Video. Don’t forget to also check the two other versions which you can find on the navigation bar on the right of that webpage!
The Berlitz clip: . . . → Read More: Something different
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