Reality 500km: January 2008

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Highlights

Yesterday I had my hair highlighted... by my husband :)
After 3 hours of hard job (he was doing it first time in his life), my hair became absolutely blond, but I like it. I doubt I can persuade my husband to make it ever again! Anyway, he is my hero! :)

That´s me in the funny cap,
Go to sleep, my baby, go to sleep, While the stars above begin to peep

Here it is, the hairdresser of the year!

the result

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

One ugly winter day!

My head is splitting with ache becouse of the weather changes. From +3C yesterday to -11 + wind chill = -23C today!

My poor husband with forzen eyebrows.

My cat spends most of the time gazing at the new, undiscowered world. :)

Monday, January 28, 2008

Fachwerk, The German Framework Road. Part 2

PART I: The German Framework Road

From the Harz Mountains to the Thuringian Forest

Stolberg, photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/22084572@N07/

Bleicherode(photo)

Worbis(photo)

Mülhausen photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfenbuettel/272133895/

Wanfried photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/88311148@N00/

Treffurt, photo by sperache

Vacha, photo by Jacobspilger

Schmalkalden, photo by Andreas

From the Reinhard Forest to the Waldeck Region

Korbach(photo)

Bad Arolsen(photo)

Wolfhagen photo by NYC Tom

From the Weser Mountains to the Vogelsberg Mountains

Hann. Münden photo by Chancho Panza

Eschwege

Hessisch Lichtenau

Spangenberg (castle) photo by http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1591573326&size=o

Melsungen photo by zoster

Fritzlar photo by witze

Homberg-Efze photo by Anitka Eva

Schwalmstadt

Alsfeld photo by pilot micha

To be continued...

Info: http://www.deutsche-fachwerkstrasse.de

Fachwerk, The German Framework Road

Today I´ve got a post card from my friend from Bamberg
and It inspired me to write about the things I love about Germany.
As for instance framework or half-timbered houses.

photo by me, Nienburg 2007

places I strongly recommend to visit

Timber framing (German: Fachwerk) is the description of how a house is built using mortise and tenon joinery. There are several ways of describing timber framing.
The techniques used in timber framing date back thousands of years, and have been used in many parts of the world during various periods such as ancient Japan, Europe and medieval England.
Half-timbered construction in the Northern European vernacular building style is characteristic of medieval and early modern Denmark, England, Germany and parts of France, in localities where timber was in good supply and building stone and the skills to work it were in short supply.

Every country has Its traditions in framework, but for me the main country of half-timbered houses is Germany. The Deutsche Fachwerkstraße, the “Route that links Germany’s Medieval Timber-framed Houses”, runs from Lower Saxony in the north of the country, via Hesse and southern Thuringia to Bavaria is an area renowned for its highly picturesque half-timbered buildings.

The German Framework Road, founded in 1990, runs meanwhile from the river Elbe to the Lake Constance through six federal states (Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Hesse, Thuringia, Bavaria and Baden Wuerttemberg) and is divided into nine regional routes.
MAP

From the River Elbe to the Weser Mountains
Stade - Nienburg - Bad Essen - Stadthagen - Alfeld - Einbeck - Northeim - Bad Gandersheim(photo)

Stade