Even Old Bombs Are Dangerous
Probably sevnty years after it was dropped, this bomb went off in Germany.
I know thhat old film is examined to find them, but they must have missed this one! So very sad!
German Practicality
Two women have been arrested at Liverpool Airport trying to smuggle the body a dead 91-year-old German home.
Here’s the first couple of paragraphs from the BBC report.
Police have arrested two women after they tried to take the body of a dead relative onto a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Staff at the airport became suspicious when the women tried to check the man in for a flight to Berlin on Saturday.
The 91-year-old man from Germany is thought to have died the previous day, and had been put into a wheelchair.
But they should have realised that because we’re not in the Shengen area, that passports would have to be checked.
It reminds of the story of the family in the early 1960s or so, who went on holiday to the South or France with an elderly grandmother. Sadly, she died in somewhere exotic like Cannes and they wondered what to do. They didn’t have any insurance to bring the body home, so they wrapped granny up in a blanket and tied her to the roof-rack.
When they got to Dover, they did what every dutiful Briton would do and reported it all to Immigration. The Officer just looked calmly and said that the roof-rack was empty.
Liverpool Street and the Kindertransport
Liverpool Street Station is one of London’s finest stations.
It also has the memorial to the Kindertransport on the main entrance.
The station was the main terminal for all the trains from Germany carrying mainly Jewish children to safety from the Nazis before the Second World War.
Germans Fix Potholes Differently
If you fancy owning your own pothole, then look no further than Neiderzimmern.
Now there’s an idea.
The Wuppertal Schwebebahn – A Video
The translation of Schwebebahn is the flying railway.
Watch the video to see why!
I filmed this when I visited Wuppertal in July 2008.
Trier, Monschau and Aachen
I finished the trip, by visiting Trier, Monschau and Aachen.
Trier is the city with the magnificent Roman gateway, Monschau is a picture postcard village and Aachen is famous for the cathedral.
What surprised me was that I was there in July and Monschau was absolutely dead and I had great difficulty finding a hotel that was open. I would have thought that it would have had more visitors.
Down the Moselle
I then travelled on down the Moselle.
It is a very beautiful area. The wine is good too!
Cologne
Some pictures of Cologne and the immense Gothic cathedral.
The one regret about Cologne was that it was so wet and I didn’t take that many photographs.
The window mechanism on the Lotus also failed. This is one design fault onthat has hit me twice! Grr! I had to wedge the window with card.
North Rhine-Westphalia
These are pictures I took at Kleve, Xanten, Wuppertal and Altenberg in North Germany in July 2008.
I was surprised at how much history there is in this part of Germany. Kleve is as in Anne of, Xanten is one of the largest Roman sites in north Europe, Wuppertal is famous for its upside-down railway and Altenberg has a superb cathedral, which is shared by both Protestants and Anglicans.
The Anonymous Widower 