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the last few months #5.

french way of living?

the next batch of pictures are from two weeks ago.
i drove back home to thuringia to welcome our french friends of our sister city!

it was raining all the time they were here. it was a bit unnerving, but we tried to enjoy it anyway. well, and my french is absolutely catastrophic. i'm glad that i'm still able to understand it at least a tiny bit. that was another thing that got me upset. i'm sad that i don't have the time to polish my french. damn work...


shadow gave birth to 4 little kitties. well, they all died but one. here you can see two, one of them we found dead 2 days later. i was so sad. i hear the last one is healthy, though, and my brother and his girlfriend are pondering to take it home. one of shadow's older kids, samson, would have a new sister then!


we made a trip to erfurt, the capital of thuringia. i always disliked erfurt, but i've fallen in love again. the old city is so beautiful. i miss my home country a lot sometimes.


the dome of erfurt.


city hall.


art hall of erfurt.


a very old letter box!


miniature of erfurt's old city. it was made for blind people. it had descriptions in braille and i was tempted to close my eyes and let my fingers do the seeing. it was nice!


on the krämerbrücke.


the schokoladenmanufaktur ( chocolate manufacture ). the BEST chocolate shop i know. you can buy the most delicious truffles and pralineés here and they're all handmade!


'humans are felling trees to produce paper. and they try to fill the paper with the emptiness of their heads.'


street art.


hanging paper puppets.


the river gera.



then we drove to the ega ( garden exhibition of erfurt ). they had a cute inspiration exhibit about how to decorate rooms. like the land of milk and honey.


i loved those glass stones.


um. well i like cacti. a lot. even they look like penises sometimes, though, haha XD
and with this little guy i leave you for tonight.

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