Wordless Wednesday

Image ~ January 7, 2015 ~ travelsandtomes ~ 2 Comments

Metz, France

Up On the Rooftop, European Style

Image ~ December 23, 2014 ~ travelsandtomes ~ 4 Comments

Saint Nick gets to see rooftops all around the world. The rest of us, not so much.

Here are a few rooftops from my corner of the globe.

A few photos of the rooftops of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany

Rothenburg, beautiful “fish scale” roof–decrepit yet still sound

Rudesheim am Rhein, Germany, slate "fish scale" roof, 2014 — Rudesheim am Rhein, Germany, slate “fish scale” roof, 2014

Rooftops of Paris from the Eiffel Tower, 2008

Rooftops of Ripon, England in freezing fog, 2008

Bernkasel-Kues, November 2014 — Bernkasel-Kues,
November 2014

And, just in case Santa is reading, please don’t forget this neighborhood:

Snow-covered rooftops looking out over my village in Germany

And, one more note:

That roof belongs to naughtly neighbors. (They threw a liquor bottle in our bushes, I'm just saying. . .) — That roof belongs to naughtly neighbors. (They threw a liquor bottle in our bushes. Not nice. . .)

Spectral — Strasbourg, France

Image ~ December 12, 2014 ~ travelsandtomes ~ 2 Comments

I love this photo because it has an eerie quality. The cathedral at the end of the street looks hazy and spectral. . . so it seems like an appropriate photo to post on a foggy, cold day.

von Trapp Tuesday

November 25, 2014 ~ travelsandtomes ~ 5 Comments

I haven’t had time to write this week, but I’m looking forward to setting pen to paper someday and filling you all in on my recent trip to Salzburg. (My new refrain = Salzburg uber alles. Probably politically incorrect in some historical way, but I LOVE this city and its surroundings.)

Anyhoo, to tide me over–and share my enthusiasm with you until I can write–I offer up a photo of the actual von Trapp family home, now a magnificent bed and breakfast, where we stayed while in the city.