The Bookkeeper

This is another one of our book stores, Hugendubel. Like Thalia, it is a chain, but much smaller. Hugendubel runs twenty odd shops and an online store as well. However, it is only one part of a bigger corporation. Store front Fiction and non fiction Kids’ department Top floor with esoteric department The one thing [...]

Our book shelves are in a state of perpetual transition. We sort them out, arrange everything and by the time we are finished we need to re-arrange again. Unfortunately the space for books does not grow proportionally to the acquisition of books. So this is the current state of some of our shelves. There are [...]

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At Leeswamme’s blog I put up a picture of our local (or rather one of our local) bookstores for the Book bloggers abroad event. Today I want to share some more pictures that didn’t appear in that blog post. Just because I love that shop. Thalia storefront The bookstore belongs to a chain called Thalia [...]

Not only does Great Britain have very small houses, now they claim to have the smallest library in the world, too. In a village in Somerset they purchased and transformed a red telephone booth into a library. From the description it sounds more like a BookCrossing location than a library. What a cool idea! I [...]

A couple of weeks ago our WG theme was the kick off of summer in the US. Right now us geeks in the Northern Hemisphere are anxiously awaiting summer’s arrival (hold on Southern Hemps, I’ll get to you in a moment). For a lot of parents, this means a couple of months wondering what to [...]

This installation, Another Place, by Antony Gormley consists of 100 life-size figures made from solid cast-iron. The figures spread out along three kilometres of the beach and stretch one kilometre out into the sea. At particular high tides all the figures are completely under water. The installation was supposed to move in Nov. 2006 to [...]

We went to the playground today and close by is the area where the Nazi party held their rallies, called Reichsparteitage, from 1933 to 1938. There are lots of old photos and information available to learn a lot about that time and place. Wikipedia offers a few good articles about the Nazi party rally grounds [...]

Part of The Gargoyle is set in a cloister in medieval Germany. What I wasn’t aware of is the fact that said cloister was just around the corner from where we live. So I thought we’d go today and have a look at what the location looks like today. Not much of the cloister is [...]