Pictures of Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the towns next to Bielefeld. They are basically very, very random shots of houses, some churches, ... If you have any questions, feel free to ask ;)


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Pictures of Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, some random places, Bielefeld University and more. If you have any questions, feel free to ask ;)


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On the road, a wild collection of everything and nothing, seen while travelling, mainly on highways. (Just let me know if you find posts like this too random, I personally am always interested in little details from foreign countries like the way supermarkets look, what street signs they have, such small things that make other countries different ( Read more... )

Before I am off for a holiday of about a week (Baltic Sea, north of Hamburg, I think there will be some pictures *g*), two more posts ... I still have quite a bunch of pictures for you.


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I've been to Minden some time ago to maybe find some nice books at a flea market. The market was tiny, I didn't found much stuff and so I decided to take a stroll instead. And it was worth it - brilliant weather and an absolutely lovely city. Mostly some buildings ( Read more... )

Each year on 11/11, at 11.11 a.m., Karneval starts officially in Germany. The madness will continue until Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent), which will be February 6, 2008. (The date varies each year ( Read more... )

Like I did some time ago, I will post some more postcards for a first impression of some areas :-) As I noticed, it's almost purely Eastern Westphalia this time.

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Now a part of the german city of Essen, Margarethenhöhe once was build in very early 20th century (around 1910 the first houses were finished, the last ones in 1938 I think), designed as a garden city, for the people working at Krupp to give them a place to live. This is nothing too special, but Margarethenhöhe (named after Margarethe Krupp, the ( Read more... )

While looking for some stuff to sell at ebay, I found some postcards I collected over the years. As I already scanned them for the auction, I thought I could share them with you, bit by bit... I'll post bunches of ten every now and then and hope you don't get tired of the picture spam I am doing here :-) I am much better with pictures than with ( Read more... )