Snapshots from Heidelberg (page 8/8)

Schmuck Paradies

Schmuck Paradies

Schmuck is the German for Jewellery (US: Jewelry). Although the typography is not what I’d expect in North America either.

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Grimacing Gargoyle

Grimacing Gargoyle

Actually not a gargoyle I think (because not a good place for a water-spout, over a door, people would get wet!) but a comical carved stone figure over a doorway (not shown). [more...]

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Smiling Gargoyle

Smiling Gargoyle

Also not a gargoyle, but on the next doorway to the previous picture. the pointed ears suggest an elf. Or a Vulcan.

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Upside-down vending machine

Upside-down vending machine

I don’t understand the ad, although cigarette adverts seem like something out of another world to me now. [more...]

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Carved stone pig

Carved stone pig

This was outside in the courtyard of a museum along Hauptstraße.

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Shop sign in the dark

Shop sign in the dark

An old-fashioned sign hanging on an ornate bracket.

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Sagen Des Klassichen Altertums

Sagen Des Klassichen Altertums

I have scanned some pictures from a book by Gustav Schwab, so I was intrigued to see these in the window of a (closed, alas!) bookshop. [more...]

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Building at night

Building at night

A civic building with a statue outside.

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Please touch carefully!

Please touch carefully!

Probably not how I might have worded it.

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