Pension Sprachschule Maria Shipley
A place to find teachers and books for learning - for more information about this website click on the "About" links
Our Silvester (German for New Year’s Eve) will be a quiet one, which is just the way I like it. Fireworks and big gatherings are also banned again on New Year’s Eve.
The road ahead should be taken the Welsh way:
“In Wales, people don’t move rocks out of their way. They step over them.” (from memory)
I’m grateful for the old year, and yet child enough to look forward to the next one.
Happy New Year, everyone!
On Saturday, while driving up Hohemarkstraße (direction Feldberg), the sun was out, and we could see snow on the mountains, which had fallen just the night before.
Right now, while typing this, I can see some light snow coming down. There is Vorfreude (anticipation) for more to come!
Due to the increasing number of new COVID infections, this year’s Christmas Market in Oberursel got cancelled. This was announced yesterday.
At least, I hope the weather forecast is right. We are supposed to get our first snow this Thursday (which would have been the first of the four days of the Christmas Market).
Our last Christmas Market was in 2019, and this where the photo dates from.
Last year, quite a few trees in our neighborhood had to be taken down because of the drought from previous years.
The removal of these trees opened up a new view onto the Mountain Lodge after almost 25 years.
When you look closely, you can see the steeple in the center of the photo.
The droughts of 2018 – 2020 are definitely changing some the landscape in Germany.
Based on the cars featured in this historical postcard, it might be safe to say this image is from the 1960s. Parking is no longer allowed there though.
Other than the absence of parked cars, not much has changed since this photo has been taken.
The marketplace is still a sloping ground, and the farmers market takes place there on Saturday mornings.
My name is Maria Shipley. I live in Oberursel, Germany, with my husband, son and daughter. The … Read more
Diese Webseite verwendet Cookies. Wenn Sie auf der Seite weitersurfen, stimmen Sie der Cookie-Nutzung zu. Mehr Informationen
Diese Webseite verwendet so genannte Cookies. Sie dienen dazu, unser Angebot nutzerfreundlicher, effektiver und sicherer zu machen. Cookies sind kleine Textdateien, die auf Ihrem Rechner abgelegt werden und die Ihr Browser speichert. Die meisten der von uns verwendeten Cookies sind so genannte "Session-Cookies". Sie werden nach Ende Ihres Besuchs automatisch gelöscht. Cookies richten auf Ihrem Rechner keinen Schaden an und enthalten keine Viren. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Seite “Datenschutzerklärung”.