Where's Bertie? To his surprise, he's still in the Stellplatz at Werne, although he has moved about 30m, into a motorhome space. (Exact location: 51.65906, 7.63339)
Weather: Overcast and cool. Still shorts and t-shirt weather, but not a sweatfest.
Our intention on arrival was simply to have a quick night-stop here, before continuing on to Bielefeld this morning. We don't have much of an itinerary on this (or any foreign) trip, but we usually arrive at a parkrun location a day in advance, giving us leisure to check out the parking situation and have a look at the course.
However, our desire to arrive in Bielefeld today was weighed against the likelihood of a disturbed night in the parking I'd identified on the parkrun side of town (car parks in cities on a Friday night can be 'interesting' places to be; we've had a few memorable Friday nights in Germany). The other option was that we could stay here another night, take the opportunity to look around Werne, and have ourselves an early start tomorrow.
So, once I'd bought a parking ticket (the machine, it turns out, is located just outside the boundary of the car park, and doesn't benefit from any lighting, so it's no wonder we couldn't find it last night), and we'd breakfasted, off townwards we went.
There are some marvellously wonky buildings in the church square
Even wonkier when viewed from the old rathaus square
Church. Not wonky, but bent by the panoramic function on the camera.
The old town is relatively small, and even with it being market day, it didn't take us a huge length of time to feel like we'd seen most of it, so back to Bertie we came, clutching baked goods (of which I forgot to take a photo).
Our next foray was in the opposite direction: into the park immediately behind Bertie. There we found this:
I'm not sure if the falling water is visible in that shot, so here's a closer snap:
And here's what the Google Translated version of the town's website says about it:
"The graduation tower, built in 1991, is 50 metres long and nine meters wide and is located in the immediate vicinity of the city lake. Here visitors can use the healing effects of the brine for their health. The brine trickles over a wall of blackthorns, creating a fine mist when it hits the thorns. This enriches the air with brine and creates a maritime climate."
Hmmmmm.
As for the pond mentioned in that paragraph, it was looking rather green today:
Whilst our walk around town this morning had told us some event had either been on or was about to happen (a stage set up in the church square; food stands in the main street), neither of us had read any of the signs and thus we were unaware until we headed back into town this afternoon that this weekend is the town's 'Street Festival' - comprising a host of street performers putting on 30-minute-ish shows at six locations around the old town, starting every hour on the hour.
We first found ourselves watching a Japanese couple, whose show essentially comprised a few handstands (impressive ones, it has to be said) and a lot of chat. With the chat being in English, the jokes were lost on the majority of the audience, but it was all mildly diverting for us.
The second act we saw (two chaps from South America, a Uraguayan, and a Argentinian) was thoroughly entertaining, with their slapstick show of knife throwing, sword swallowing, fire eating and the like.
Lying on a pile of broken glass, with a bed of nails face down on his abdomen, on top of which is his handstanding partner.
We may nip back in after tea to see what else is going on.
Fountain of the Day?
Nope, after a drought of fountains, we found two today and I'm going for this one as Fountain of the Day
Let's have a Sculpture of the Day too
Weather: Overcast and cool. Still shorts and t-shirt weather, but not a sweatfest.
Our intention on arrival was simply to have a quick night-stop here, before continuing on to Bielefeld this morning. We don't have much of an itinerary on this (or any foreign) trip, but we usually arrive at a parkrun location a day in advance, giving us leisure to check out the parking situation and have a look at the course.
However, our desire to arrive in Bielefeld today was weighed against the likelihood of a disturbed night in the parking I'd identified on the parkrun side of town (car parks in cities on a Friday night can be 'interesting' places to be; we've had a few memorable Friday nights in Germany). The other option was that we could stay here another night, take the opportunity to look around Werne, and have ourselves an early start tomorrow.
So, once I'd bought a parking ticket (the machine, it turns out, is located just outside the boundary of the car park, and doesn't benefit from any lighting, so it's no wonder we couldn't find it last night), and we'd breakfasted, off townwards we went.
The old town is relatively small, and even with it being market day, it didn't take us a huge length of time to feel like we'd seen most of it, so back to Bertie we came, clutching baked goods (of which I forgot to take a photo).
Our next foray was in the opposite direction: into the park immediately behind Bertie. There we found this:
I'm not sure if the falling water is visible in that shot, so here's a closer snap:
And here's what the Google Translated version of the town's website says about it:
"The graduation tower, built in 1991, is 50 metres long and nine meters wide and is located in the immediate vicinity of the city lake. Here visitors can use the healing effects of the brine for their health. The brine trickles over a wall of blackthorns, creating a fine mist when it hits the thorns. This enriches the air with brine and creates a maritime climate."
Hmmmmm.
As for the pond mentioned in that paragraph, it was looking rather green today:
Whilst our walk around town this morning had told us some event had either been on or was about to happen (a stage set up in the church square; food stands in the main street), neither of us had read any of the signs and thus we were unaware until we headed back into town this afternoon that this weekend is the town's 'Street Festival' - comprising a host of street performers putting on 30-minute-ish shows at six locations around the old town, starting every hour on the hour.
We first found ourselves watching a Japanese couple, whose show essentially comprised a few handstands (impressive ones, it has to be said) and a lot of chat. With the chat being in English, the jokes were lost on the majority of the audience, but it was all mildly diverting for us.
The second act we saw (two chaps from South America, a Uraguayan, and a Argentinian) was thoroughly entertaining, with their slapstick show of knife throwing, sword swallowing, fire eating and the like.
We may nip back in after tea to see what else is going on.
Your Sculpture of the Day I found a bit disturbing. I'm just battling with a new iPhone transferring data and feeling woefully out of my depth.
ReplyDeleteHope you won the battle with the new phone. Was this an intentional purchase or a blur moment?
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