366 Photos - 302- Friday Lauffen (Castle 2 *g*)

[byslantedlight]

Friday! Up early to go to work with Milomaus, and baffle small children about the fact that I didn't speak German. *g* But it was fun, and I got to play counting with a wee lad who was a real sweetie. *g* Then home to work, and the out again just as the mist and clouds cleared and the skies turned blue and beautiful again! We went to see Lauffen

Comments

[just_ann_now]

These are great pictures! Wow.

[byslantedlight]

Thanks! Germany is being a very pretty subject! *g*

[gilda_elise]

What a gorgeous place! The village looks so inviting. But I'm really struck at how different German castles are compared to English ones.

[byslantedlight]

German castles are different to English ones, aren't they - much more elegant somehow! *g*

[solosundance]

Loving the pics - glad you're having a nice time :)

[byslantedlight]

It's a lovely time - Germany is a very pretty place for pics, too!

[heliophile_oxon]

What a stunningly beautiful place you are visiting, to go by these and the previous photos! Thank you for sharing the photos with us (and here's to fierce castle-guarding dragons *g*)

[byslantedlight]

Yeay dragons! It really is beautiful around here too - and I suspect there will be more pretty pictures to come!

[loxleyprince]

All the best castles have dragons! #trufact

and baffle small children about the fact that I didn't speak German
Welcome to my world, dear! *g*

[byslantedlight]

Heee #trufact!

You don't speak German?! I was so assuming you would! I've been trying to pick up useful words, but they keep going in one ear and out the other, even the ones I tried to learn before I came... *headdesk*

[loxleyprince]

The trick is keeping the dragon hidden from the Dragon Knight, who has a fearsome reputation for slaying the same. Of course, it helps if the dragon's protector is none other than the Earl's son, and the Dragon Knight is already out of his favour for having trodden on his pet stoat (although he swears it was an accident.) But reputations based on troubadour songs are, at best, an incomplete and, at worst, unreliable reflection of a man's character. The Dragon Knight may yet surprise both the young viscount and his little dragon (and perhaps even himself...)

:-)

Yes, I speak very little German. When I first came here, my entire German vocabulary consisted of words I'd picked up from war films. Not an auspicious start, admittedly, and I'll have you know it's jolly hard to work "Hande hoch!" and "Appell!" into polite conversation, so I have progressed a little since then. But mostly Ich spreche nur Englische (I only speak English.) It does not help that Ich bin ein langsam Lerner - I am a slow learner!

[byslantedlight]

jolly hard to work "Hande hoch!" and "Appell!" into polite conversation
Heeee! And yeah, I think I'm a slow learner too - everything dribbles out of my head so quickly these days... but then English does too!