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Panoramic photos taken with my phone

I know this was just posted a few minutes ago, but it's one of my all time favourites, and I modified it to create a cool wallpaper.

If anyone is seeing this for the first time, turn off auto-rotate on your phone and turn it upside down. I've had this image for years now and never fails to blow my mind 🤯

I've searched for the original artist and the one that comes closest is Octavio Ocampo, but I haven't seen this specific image anywhere in his works online.

He's done amazing work regardless. I can't post a direct link,but try this:

https://www.wikiart.org/en/octavio-ocampo

Die Bierwoche ist rum 🍻

We went up to the Festung Rosenberg for my wife's birthday dinner. It's a really nice, lesser-known one to visit if you're ever in the area. The tour is fantastic. The castle belongs to the town, not the Bavarian heritage administration, or whatever it's called in English.

One of the many stories from the history, via Wikipedia:

"The Thirty Years' War provided the newly renovated fortress with its first great test. For two years, from 1632 to 1634, Kronach was placed under siege and subjected to countless attacks by the marauding Swedish Army and its German allies, including Saxony-Coburg and Bayreuth. The town and fortress famously remained uncaptured, largely owing to the efforts of Kronach's women, who halted a Swedish breach of the city walls with boiling liquids. The Swedish army was also held off at the fortress' bastions and never breached the inner layers of the fortress."

You learn all about that during the tour, and also the amazing story of the rabbit 🐇

One of the pics I'm posting is an original wooden bridge, a very rare thing to see. It's 600 years old and luckily never had to be set on fire as a last defence.

I can't seem to post a link to the Wikipedia page but if you're interested,just search "Fortress Rosenberg Kronach" and you'll find it.

Beim Edeka gekauft, kostet 1,45€ der Flasche 🍻

I use the 360° photosphere function sometimes instead of the regular panoramic photos. These are French cathedrals, and really difficult subjects for the software to deal with. There are some imperfect seams if you look closely but I'm ready impressed with the improvements they've made with this function.

No matter what direction we're coming from, we always see the Festung Plassenburg up there. It's in use, there are even apartments still occupied. The town is required to keep it accessible to the public and hold public events there. The concert photo was Barclay James Harvest, and the other photo is the town square viewed from the courtyard wall.

My physical therapist lives and works in a house at the base of this castle

We were in Verdun for two days. It was an unplanned stop and was supposed to be just an overnighter before continuing with our trip home to Germany. But it was so beautiful, and our relatively inexpensive hotel was so nice, we decided to add a day to the stay.

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It happened to be the day when they hold their Venice-themed festival (Verdun has the nickname "mini-Venice" due to the numerous canals) and we loved it.

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Our hotel room was on the 2nd floor with a little balcony overlooking the river and the town center. We felt like royalty sitting there drinking wine and looking out at the beautiful city.

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The hotel was the Les Jardins Du Mess, which we booked online from the car when we were about an hour outside the city. The BREAKFAST was fantastic!

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Anyway, we really enjoy this little spontaneous stopover and I can well imagine returning next year for a longer stay.

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Vom Fass auf'm Kerwa bestimmt ein Genuß 🍻

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Reckendorfer Kerwabier (im Kozelkrug).

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Oberfranggn kommen 😅 Prost 🍻

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Prost! 🍻

We're in Verdun and I just bought a few beers for the evening from a little supermarket. I bought a couple of Leffe's and, just for fun, I picked up this can of American Bud. Oh man, it does not taste good. It doesn't even taste like beer to me.

I was wondering why CO² was listed in the ingredients, so I did like I always do these days, asked my AI. I learned all about "forced carbonation" and the massive InBev headquarters in Belgium.

This summary that the AI wrote was hilarious:

*It is a funny twist of brewing geography—you are drinking a beer brewed in Belgium, the land of complex dubbels, tripels, and lambics, but it's engineered to taste exactly like a strip-mall parking lot in the American Midwest.

Hopefully, the Leffe Ruby (which might very well have been brewed in the exact same facility!) gives you a bit more of that authentic Belgian character later on.*

I should mention that the second beer I opened is that Leffe Ruby and, also not good. It tastes like the worst kind of artificial carbonated fruit drink. And, one look at the ingredients confirms exactly that opinion.