Yesterday, my mum and I bullied my brother into a family excursion. Being a kind soul, he drove us to Landsberg am Lech, a town about a thirty minutes away from The Village. It’s a beautiful, typically Bavarian town, with many medieval buildings still intact.
It’s probably worth mentioning that Landsberg is noted for one rather unfortunate thing: Hitler wrote Mein Kampf there. But rather than dwelling on that, let’s gawp at some of the town’s magnificent buildings instead.
You climbed a hill? I’m very impressed!
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I did 🙂 Powered by Bavarian cakes, I can accomplish anything!
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I should have brought some to Mount Kinabalu.
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I could do with some of them then!
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There’s currently a shortage. I wonder how that happened…
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My fave search term of the day:
lady of the cakes confused
LOL!
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They clearly don’t know you very well 😉 Mine are bog standard today. Latvian women in nude…
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Oooh, gorgeous! I will never tire of the colours and decorations on German buildings.
LOVE the bird houses!
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That could be another town on your list 🙂
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I only have 2 weeks though!
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Ger yer skates on 🙂
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Nice photos. Not sure I condone bullying though.
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He was well compensated with all his fave food 😉
You’ll like what’s coming up tomorrow…
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OMG. Seriously, OMG. It’s such a cliche, but this sort of non-Metropolis Germany is where people get all the fairy tale associations. It’s just…not real. When in Florence or Toledo, I certainly get the time-travel vibe, but looking at buildings like this is like being transported to Fantasy Land. The only place that I had actually been to that looked like this, has been Bruges.
Sentiment aside, what strikes me the most about the colors and decoration of these buildings is that they are exceptionally bright and ornate while the clothing and personal decoration of their human contemporaries was remarkably dark and restrained.
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*LOCAL contemporaries
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I love Bruges 🙂
Hadn’t noticed the contrast between the buildings and the clothing – curious!
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I am thinking about Rembrandt and post-Rembrandt era and thereafter; darker clothing, less ornate than their French and even English counterparts. The rococo influence went straight for architecture and almost entirely avoided fashion.
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I must have slept through that particular history class…
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