I only moved within the internet.
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This thread is a bit like how it is when friends or family from out of town are visiting and one shows them all the stuff that is right around the corner, but one never goes there alone, isn’t it.
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The murals started getting overregional coverage:
This are the people behind them:
https://www.urbaner-kunstraum.de/en/
And of course some of the murals popped up in the yearly photo competition (but the other pictures are really good, too). There is a link in the article to all the winning pictures:
If you go to the end of the platform and look to the left you can see the house I live in.
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Okay, looks like the Blombachtalbrücke is safe for now.
The picture in the linked article is from 2023 when they had to remove icicles.
It’s a structure from the late 1950ies and used to be the largest of its kind (by span length) in Germany for 20 years.
It also was a favourite spot for suicides until they upped the railings considerably.
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What a lovely spot, and a lovely photograph!
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I believe this sort of tour for friends and/or family was called “showing them the lions” in 18th/19th C Britain.
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Local bus driver made the top five in the nationwide ‘favourite bus driver 2024’… well I don’t think ‘competition’ is really the right word here. It’s to recognise what they did. People write in to nominate someone, with a little information to explain why and a jury sorts and rates the entries. This year there were 2,300+ entries. Görel expertly defused a situation where one passenger bodily attacked several other people in the bus.
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It’s that time of year again.
Article has link to pictures which won’t onebox on its own.
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Four chicks have hatched over the last couple of weeks:
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3 links to various pictures.
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Apparently some idiot put two Axolotls in a pond in one of the local parks. Fortunately, one of the gardeners tending the park spotted them and fished them out. It’s much to cold for them here right now.
Park homepage:
https://www.barmer-anlagen.de/
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“You write letters, you get letters back”
~ Lazlo Toth, American
my postbox gets a little sumpin’, every now and then…
very clever, Herr Duckenberg, clever, indeed!
and the postmark?
love it!
Wuppertal ist ein schöner Ort.
danke!
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do have a look for yourself!
this is seriously some fun.
also, check out The Lazlo Letters, if unfamiliar. it is an amazing collection, itself.
“What will you say when the ducks come?”
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Rubber stamps. Still practical!
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The current exhibition is nearby, at the
and they’ve integrated it very cleverly and with loving detail into the museums regular/permanent displays.
It is fun, I’ve already been twice and bought a huge stack of postcards. And a bit of merch as christmas presents.
Like this one (some people just can’t wait for it when they get a package…):
Carl Spitzmaus - Der Sonntagsspaziergang
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Apparently Lukas Podolski developed his Kebap shop into a franchise system and today there was the grand opening of one.
The building itself is a bit of local history. Originally built as a cinema in the late 1950ies/early 1960ies, the first McDonald’s in Wuppertal moved in around 1980 and was there until last year.
The cinema’s auditorium has been a rehearsal space for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater for ages.
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