Downtown to retreive Bruce’s rain coat, gave it to a seamstress to get a new buckle put on the belt. Well they looked for a buckle but didn’t find one so it’s not fixed. I looked too and didn’t find one either. This coat came from Italy and has a two prong buckle type that I guess Germany doesn’t use. So we changed the design to a slip through one and I’ll take it back to have sewn on. Sometimes you just have to get a bit creative when you cannot find what’s needed.
Early in the evening I heard music coming from outside, looked and there were several lit lanterns going down the path to the Mundenhof – St. Martin’s Day celebration! (Read about it previous blog post) Cool! Was glad to witness it. Took a picture but it’s rather blurry with them being in motion.
Bruce’s computer keyboard broke AGAIN! Nothing he did this time, or the last in fact, but it seems to have been in the shop more than being used. We are terribly reliant on computers for research and entertainment so being without one is a pain in the keester. Back to the shop he goes and they are not sympathetic at all, as usual. We’re going to buy a spare, from another dealer, seems to be extravagant but since we don’t watch TV, more choices for reading English books on Kindle, we need a computer each. I have an iPad but don’t, or won’t, get used to the virtual keypad for writing, well, it doesn’t have Word on it anyway and I write more than I post.
Back out with Christoph and since we have found in the past, touring first and lunching later doesn’t really work well in the Kaiserstuhl area since they close up around 1400 for their lunch. So we went to Bahlingen to a restaurant called Landgasthof zum Lamm.
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| Outside the Restaurant |
Fourth generation in operation with a fifth being trained, it’s also a hotel and they do catering and have been in business for years, see the website at www.lamm-bahlingen.de for further information. Food was excellent and well presented. We’d definitely go back especially in the summer for the outside seating they are well set up for and curios hung everywhere, mostly old farm equipment but I liked this sculpture too.
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| The Village garden and roof line of old building |
Moved on to an exhibition of Chinese art and pottery in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, another charming village. The exhibition was – well I’ll just say it – weird. www.kunsthallemessmer.de (note the English tab doesn’t work). A true mix of wonderfully coloured and shaped very old pottery and modern paintings that were bizarre to all three of us. It’s all in a person’s taste when it comes to art of course. They had lockers for purses and no cameras allowed inside. Christoph thought there should have been more explanation on each piece so he could “get the joke”. This is a privately funded museum with the patron using his business contacts in Asia to provide works although there were pieces from all over the world depending on the type. An “interesting” exhibit, and you know what that means when used to describe art … previous blog March 21, 2014
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| Outside the Church |
Just Googled this since I'd seen it before in Canada. Yarn bombing happens in Riegel, Germany too, worldwide in fact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing
Then we went to St. Stephans church in Riegel, Baroque in style as many are in the area.
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| Ornate table in the alter |
I think Christoph had to refresh his memory with painting he likes rather than hold onto what he clearly didn’t at the museum.
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| Handsome fellows, handsome door. |
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| "Different" or interesting sculpture on top of a water fountain. |
Birthday Day for me and the sun came out in the afternoon – Thank You! Went downtown to Ergo Sum the computer store. Different dealer than where Bruce's broken computer is - still. Woman there seemed to know what she was talking about. Walked out with new computer and lighter wallet once again. On to Eigan Art, the store we’ve bought curios from to see what she has that is different. Always a pleasure to talk to her, then home after a nice Italian lunch.
Working away on my computer and felt the light change and looked out to see this! Wow! Impressive light show. Doesn't look real but I haven't altered the photo one bit.
Then to top it off - a rainbow!
Nature can be very impressive and beautiful.
Cheers, Bx2 & Lexi Cat
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