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I've finished reading Simon Winder's "#Germania" a while ago, but I've been slacking with the review. This is a book about the history of #Germany, in the wide meaning of word. However, it's not your boring detailed history book. The author takes us on a deeply personal journey across German landscape, across tiny towns and great forests, Schlosses, churches and monuments, and uses that as a context to bring the country's surprisingly interesting history to light. And honestly, it works — it is deeply enjoyable, to the point of making me wonder if one day I should actually move to Germany, get a Bahncard 100 and start exploring myself.
I didn't quote the book here, but if I were to choose one quote that really resonated with me, it would be:
"""
Solitary tourism is something that everybody should indulge in. Of course it is a fraudulent solitude because its enjoyment comes from its limited duration and having a cheerful, only very temporarily abandoned main base area. […] And then, suddenly, I am in Vienna, standing in the shadow of a monstrous, derelict flak tower, and completely alone. The virtue of solitary tourism is its infinite ability to absorb boredom. I often find myself almost crippled with anxiety that the companion or companions on a journey might be finding everything wholly without interest, would rather be eating somewhere else, are secretly angry that we have wound up walking down this street rather than that, are contemptuous of my own interests. Solitary tourism cauterizes all this: if a museum is boring beyond all measure there is no pressure to feign interest, you just leave. I am perfectly happy, in a zoned-out way, to crisscross a town, walking for hours, just for the off-chance something curious might be round the next corner – indeed in the confidence that there will always be something curious (there always is). But for each street, each bar, each folklore museum to be converted into an inter-human negotiation creates an entirely different dynamic.
[…]
Quite possibly the pleasure of this way of life would be much reduced in some other countries, particularly more insistently gregarious places such as Italy. German culture puts a high value on temporary solitude of a stagey kind. Perhaps this is its great gift. In some moods I think there is no need to do anything other than read German writers from the first half of the nineteenth century – a sort of inexhaustible storehouse of attitudes flattering to those who just like sometimes to be left alone. Everyone must have at least a part of them that wants to live in a stairless, doorless tower as a sort of intellectual Rapunzel, setting aside, at least in part, the complicated sexual frisson laid out by such an idea. Germany really is thick with ivy-covered turrets and the promise of solitude (Kepler staring at the planets above Prague, Faust conjuring demons) – the great majority presumably built in the nineteenth century in response to the whole literature devoted to the subject. There is one turret in Lübeck, built onto a city guard tower of just outrageous fakeness, which would do me for life.
"""
(Simon Winder, Germania)
And if you follow me, you have evidence that the part about crisscrossing towns is so true: the best things I've posted here I found by complete accident, especially the murals.
#books #bookstodon

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There are some things in life that just go well together: peanut butter and jam, macaroni and cheese, Germany and genocide…

Hat der #Nagelsmann sich eigentlich mit Charlie Sheen getroffen?
Ihr seht es doch auch oder?
#germany #gercuw

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#vanlife #camping #europe #germany

RE: #Germany have abandoned their official…

I hope they're doing the plate justice. One way or another. 😉
#car #licensePlate #travel #pun #Germany #Deutschland

Finally reduced my endless backlog by uploading a bunch of photos to #WikimediaCommons. These are photos I took in #Heidelberg and #Wilhelmsfeld,

Wow, such democracy. Much freedom of movement.
#germany #eu

Doh. This is the end of Germany. 🍩
(package seen today at a German supermarket)
#food #donuts #Simpsons #health #Germany

Made in Udupi. Served in Bavaria. 🤤 🇮🇳 🇩🇪
(see alt text)
#food #sweets #India #Germany

German bakeries do know how to make and present bread. 🥖
(shot today)
#photography #amateur #food #bread #bakery #Germany #Deutschland

And, if you can't beat them, join them. 🍩
(also seen today at a German supermarket)
#food #donuts #Milka #health #Germany

Sunday at "Trachtenfest" (celebration of traditional attire). 🇩🇪
#photography #amateur #Bavaria #Germany #clothing #parade #tradition

Fruits on flowers. 🍒💐
(this morning on the kitchen table)
#photography #amateur #fruits #cherries #stillLife #Germany

So much opulence they sell gold coins by the bags. In supermarkets. 😲
Like how historians say the markets of Hampi did at the peak of the Vijayanagara empire. 🪙
#trinkets #cheap #coins #humor #Germany #India #photography #amateur

The nicest looking artichokes.
#Bavaria #Germany #veggies #stillLife #photography #amateur

Thrift shops are treasures of art. You just have to look carefully.
#photography #amateur #storage #thriftShop #art #Germany

I wonder if drogerie markt ever used something like "slide into your/our dm" in #marketing before that phrase/act became creepy and unwelcome. 🤔
*a #pharmacy chain in #Germany and elsewhere
#socialmedia

Achtung! Amazon Kids running about.
(that arrow lip)
#Germany #Austria #alerts #kids #Amazon #arrow

The moon right now. Almost half way through the waxing phase. 🌓
#photography #amateur #moon #night #Germany

Wheat ears hung upside down at the local bakery. The second picture is looking at the installation from under it. Looks to me like a large scrub one might use on a rough floor, but with lights. 🌾 🥖
May 21, 2026 #Bavaria #Germany
#photography #amateur #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #wheat #bakery #decor