Colloquial Soliloquy

I was blessed to recently travel to Bavaria Ger­many (Wei­den in der Ober­falz). Below are some of the places I got to visit while I was there. When you see a pic­ture of an adorable baby and his par­ents that is Austin Michael, my first grand-baby and his par­ents, Mike and Brit­tney. Life is sweet and they make it sweeter.

First are some pic­tures of the charm­ing city of Wei­den i.d. O.f. I took these on a beau­ti­ful Sat­ur­day morn­ing. This is a time when the mar­ket place is really boom­ing. It’s fun to sit back and enjoy the culture’s sights, sounds, smells and tastes!

Lutheran Cathe­dral in the dis­tance in Wei­den i.d. O.f.

Das Rathaus in Wei­den. Trans­lated it means “The Town Hall.” This is no longer used for that pur­pose, but it’s so lovely!

Walk­ing through the bot­tom half of Das Rathaus.

A quick shot of a part of the mar­ket place

Spaghetti Eis (Vanilla Gelato put through a ricer to make it look like spaghetti, deli­cious straw­berry sauce, and white choco­late sprin­kles. Glad I can’t find this just any­where! We enjoyed this in the mar­ket place.

Lutheran Church in Weiden

junge Mäd­chen und ihr Hund! I loved watch­ing this lit­tle girl who was work­ing hard to con­vince her dog that a sip and a dip in the foun­tain would be a good thing!

The new par­ents and their pre­cious bundle!

Austin dream­ing about some­thing sweet.

The next two pic­tures are of the sur­round­ing areas of Wei­den. We were near Grafenwöhr/Vilseck area. I thought these were pretty inter­est­ing… in par­tic­u­lar the 『Hob­bit』 holes that peo­ple actu­ally live in.

Hob­bit Hole #1

Hob­bit Hole #2

A few pic­tures of the old cas­tle wall of Wei­den viewed from the Max Reger park. I was intrigued to learn that Reger was from Wei­den. I used to take clas­si­cal voice lessons and Reger’s 『Maria Wiegen­lied』 was one of the first Ger­man lieder I per­formed at a recital.

What remains of the orig­i­nal cas­tle wall of Wei­den. Circa 1200’s. It looks very Romanesque.

Inside the cas­tle wall (look­ing down a small stair)

I plan on post­ing a few addi­tional posts. One post in par­tic­u­lar will dis­play pho­tos of Floßen­bürg Con­cen­tra­tion Camp — truly one of the most bru­tal death camps of the Nazi reign. I may do that one in sec­tions so I can add back­ground infor­ma­tion on the Camp and on some of its vic­tims such as Diet­rich Bon­ho­ef­fer (1906 – 1945) who was reformed the­olo­gian and co-conspirator in part of Oper­a­tion Valkyrie. No, he was not men­tioned in the movie that was recently released, sadly enough.

Stay tuned!