Yeah, sorry guys, I guess I don't blog this blog thing as much anymore. It's back to real life for me, having a job, going to school.
That's no joke about the economy either, I'm working as many hours as is humanly possible to try and make some money, thus I have less time for this nonsense no one cares about.
But enough metablog, how about some blog? Today's pictures are from Witten, V's sleepy, industrial hometown. They're big on iron production there I think. Or mining. One of those dangerous things.
I went there to meet her parents and friends, see the place she grew up, etc etc. Also we were on our way to Amsterdam and it's kind of half way between there and Tuebingen.
Meeting her parents went better than expected. Better than meeting any girlfriend's parents ever has gone actually. An especially impressive feat considering they don't speak any English. But food speaks louder than words, just check out this home-cooked-all-vegetarian-mealstravaganza (and this was a lunch!).
So what's Witten got? Well, a lot of power lines for one.
A lot of them.
And other industrial looking stuff, you know.
Witten's one of those towns that's got a 'thing' going for it, like Berlin has bears. Instead of brightly painted festive animals it's got fat businessmen.
This was once a brightly colored fountain, when it stopped working they painted it grey so it would look more like a statue. I guess that's kind of a good way to sum up Witten as a town.
Not that I didn't like, it had a comforting humanity and utilitarianism to it that is sometimes not found in German towns. Next stop Amsterdam.
Also, check out V's blog for her picture report of us going to a Gaza protest in downtown Orlando.
That's no joke about the economy either, I'm working as many hours as is humanly possible to try and make some money, thus I have less time for this nonsense no one cares about.
But enough metablog, how about some blog? Today's pictures are from Witten, V's sleepy, industrial hometown. They're big on iron production there I think. Or mining. One of those dangerous things.
I went there to meet her parents and friends, see the place she grew up, etc etc. Also we were on our way to Amsterdam and it's kind of half way between there and Tuebingen.
Meeting her parents went better than expected. Better than meeting any girlfriend's parents ever has gone actually. An especially impressive feat considering they don't speak any English. But food speaks louder than words, just check out this home-cooked-all-vegetarian-mealstravaganza (and this was a lunch!).
So what's Witten got? Well, a lot of power lines for one.
A lot of them.
And other industrial looking stuff, you know.
Witten's one of those towns that's got a 'thing' going for it, like Berlin has bears. Instead of brightly painted festive animals it's got fat businessmen.
This was once a brightly colored fountain, when it stopped working they painted it grey so it would look more like a statue. I guess that's kind of a good way to sum up Witten as a town.
Not that I didn't like, it had a comforting humanity and utilitarianism to it that is sometimes not found in German towns. Next stop Amsterdam.
Also, check out V's blog for her picture report of us going to a Gaza protest in downtown Orlando.
4 comments:
ok a couple of things.
1) my hometown actually looks like a big city on the first pic.. i've never seen it like that.
2) isn't it a strange combination for a city to be both sleepy and industrial? technically, my hometown is a city; but it behaves like a town. good observation.
3) things my hometown and the whole surrounding Ruhr area are famous for: iron works, coal mining, steel industry.
4) man, do i have a slavic family or what. i never thought this could look so exotic one day.
5) funny that you mention the power lines cause i always thought they destroyed the landscape until i figure that it must look like that in every civilized place.
6) so yeah, everybody go check out my own blog if you wanna know about that Gaza protest we went to: http://unraven.wordpress.com
That food looked delicious! Vesna, can you cook like that?! If so, I want some! I want some!
I'm glad meeting the parents went well, i know how nerve wracking that is!
Ah, Witten - THE hometown to have ... :o). Now you guys have to visit Witten in Nebraska (?), too. Yes, there's actually an all American Witten on this planet.
It is nice to see Witten through the lense of a visitor. You covered it pretty well. And oh - I so remember the COLORFUL fountain and how much I liked the blue string over the red one when I was like three or four .... *sigh*.
I actually wonder why not one citizen ever thought about buying two buckets of paint and spend one sunday making this thing look nice again for children. It would probably be really just one day of work and expense of maybe 50-100 € you could easily get together announcing a collection in the local paper. Or maybe an arts-class from school could do that. I really wonder why no on considers doing that.
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