Jun 8, 20246 min read
Beautiful Germany 美しいドイツ (3)
2024年 6月 8日 I briefly mentioned the Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe and the famous Rosenhöhe in my blog last week. The Rosenhöhe (lit. the hill...
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Jun 1, 20246 min read
Beautiful Germany 美しいドイツ (2)
2024 年 6 月 2 日 It's Sunday morning and I am determined to avoid the motorway roadworks whilst driving back from Nuremberg. Cutting across...
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May 26, 20244 min read
Beautiful Germany 美しいドイツ
2024 年 5 月 26 日 Look at number 55......... 55番を見てください…… Rauschpfeife.......What a funny name for an organ stop. At first sight I thought...
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May 19, 20246 min read
🗡️ The Invitation 招待
2024 年 5月 19日 English is not a phoenetic language, I am told. Ok. So let's try this: Yesterday I was in the Langen woods. The beech trees...
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May 12, 20244 min read
Sanxingdui ....
2024 年 5 月 11 日 Now what have we here......? Tea? No, the tin is too heavy. My visitors from Beijing have left me to discover what this...
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May 5, 20245 min read
Power, Sex and Self-interest 権力、セックス、そして私利私欲
2024 年 5 月 4 日 Georg Friederic Händel recognized a good story when he saw one - a story with power, sex and self-interest. And he knew...
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Apr 27, 20246 min read
Alter Opa おじいちゃん
2024 年 4 月 27 日 👉 Put headphones on 🎧 ヘッドフォンをつけてください Why was the swan silver? I have no idea. In my experience swans are either white...
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Apr 20, 20246 min read
😶 Back with a bump 着陸が難しい
2024 年 4 月 20 日 Welcome back to Germany. I saw this wholly unnecessary and ludicrous sign in Bingen this week. It actually says, would...
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Apr 12, 20246 min read
☃️ Nagano 長野県
2024 年 4 月 12 日 Hi! from Nagano......Is my remit to report on a sunny, cherry blossom-drenched paradise on the other side of the world?....
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Apr 5, 20247 min read
Who is the fairest of them all? 誰が一番美しいですか
2024 年 4 月 6日 Hello and welcome to the Miss Tokyo Beauty Contest (for Carps)......here are some of the hopefuls..... 鯉美人コンテスト But what's...
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Mar 29, 20246 min read
⛱️ Buddhas and Beaches 仏陀とビーチ
2024 年 3 月 30 日 Tokyo seems to have an endless list of art galleries and museums. Very useful if it's still chilly outside. Chilly? Ha!...
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Mar 23, 20245 min read
🧀 Cheddar チェダー
2024 年 3 月 23 日 What a silly boy. Buying a packet of Cheddar cheese in Japan. Ridiculously expensive, and too near its sell-by date. But...
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Mar 16, 20243 min read
☀️ Perfect Days パーフェクト・デイズ
2024 年 3 月 16 日 We start this week in the Langen woods...... まず。 ランゲンの森の中で. But soon move to Frankfurt, where the butterflies are...
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Mar 6, 20243 min read
😼 I am a cat 吾輩は猫である
2024 年 3 月 6 日 I think most of us would rather forget the year 2020. The lockdowns, the travel restrictions, the masks, the Zoom video...
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Feb 28, 20242 min read
⬆️ Straight on まっすぐ
2024 年 2 月 28 日 Yeap. Got it. I have to go straight on. Because this is a Diversion (Engl.), une Déviation (French), ein Umleitung...
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Feb 21, 20244 min read
🕺At last やった!
2024 年 2 月 21 日 Time to set the flies free......🪰 屋根裏の虫 I was going up into my attic to find an old rental agreement. But every time I...
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Feb 14, 20245 min read
🛠️ Men at Work
2024 年 2 月 14 日 ".......And she said > "Do you come from a land down under...?....." When I see men at work today...... ..........I can't...
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Feb 7, 20245 min read
👋 Winter ade! Fuyu yo Sayonara ! 冬よ さようなら！
2024 年 2 月 7 日 We were standing in the entrance of the Wiesbaden opera house. "What's "Wiederaufnahme" in English? Dörte asks. Yes,...
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Jan 31, 20244 min read
Music 音楽
2024 年 1 月 31 日 Many of you may know the "Four Last Songs" (Vier letzte Lieder) by Richard Strauss, (not the Strauss of The Blue Danube...
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Jan 23, 20245 min read
Sunrise, Sunset 日の出、日の入り
2024 年 1 月 23 日 Published earlier than usual for notice of Benefizkonzert/Japan Earthquake (see end of post) The Italians get around...
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