Germany

Signs of the City.88


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Urban Garden.198


Urban Canals.168

Adlerbruecke or Eagle Bridge, Tiergarten, Berlin – another lovely city-park canal 🙂

City Lights.58

Memorial To The Murdered Jews of Europe, one of several monuments to humans killed during the WWII-era holocaust that have been established in Berlin since the last time I really had a chance to explore the city fully. More photos of this quite wonderful city where history indeed weighs very heavily in future posts.


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Ah, Royalty.28


Coasting.70


Village Views.60

In this post and the next, our last photos from Borkum, including each of us on the cute little mini-train that connects the ferry terminal with the town.


“Urban” Entrances.100

Well, the town is as “urban” as Borkum gets. Herewith a few more of its entrances that caught my eye during our short stay there in late June 🙂


Urban Canals.149

A last farewell (for now) to HH and its pretty canals connecting the Elbe with the Alster.

City Views.199

Farewell, for now, to Berlin on the blog :-).


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Small Wonders.209


Small Wonders.208


City Views.198

Considering the over-abundance of photos noted in prior posts, I’ve decided it’s time to share just about all the photos that remain from late June’s visit to Hamburg – a trip we’ve shown you in various past posts starting in early July. Sheesh, three months ago already. Anyhoo – the gallery below is just about everything; the Bismarck Monument above (I think I recall reading somewhere that it’s the largest Bismarck monument in the world?) is one notable city site. I think the Alster & the City Hall (Rathaus) shown in the two larger photos at the end are probably the city’s most famous sites, along with the harbor in general and, now, the Elbphilharmonie building (we pointed it out in an earlier post, and you’ll see it again in the gallery below if you look for it).


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Urban Canals.148


Islands.38

Who doesn’t love a lighthouse? As I might have mentioned in earlier posts from that lovely German East-Frisian island of Borkum, we spent our one night there with a view of this “new lighthouse” from the balcony. Quite lovely. Since we passed it much more frequently than the “old lighthouse” (the final image of which wraps up the end of this post, at the bottom), I have more photos of it in all the various light and cloud conditions we observed in our short stay. Since I now officially have a backlog of photos that might well last me into my next break from posting some time in 2024, I figure I’d better start clearing the trips from more than two months ago a bit more rapidly. Hope you enjoy the resultant gallery with every remaining photo from Borkum in which I saw any of the the three different lighthouses to be found there. (If the gallery doesn’t view well on your screen & you’d like to see all the pics, try either the “load full version” or shift to a desktop or laptop.)