Bi-lingual signs at train stations (or anywhere else, for that matter) is not something you see very often in Germany. Yet this is what I spotted from the train en route to Görlitz. This is a part of the country where Sorbs live, and their language is officially recognised and protected as a minority language – one of only four!
Month: May 2015
Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken
Görlitz is a small town in the former East Germany, right on the Polish border. Much of it has been beautifully restored but in between, there are a large number of houses still broken from years of neglect.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin enveloped by beautiful roses during the Festival of Lights in October 2014
Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature
Something I discovered right outside my living room window, when lifting up an overturned flower pot. Dainty and fragile but what a force of nature nonetheless! Here’s hoping they make it!
And one of the parents – another force of nature!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Intricate
The Frauenkirche in Dresden, painstakingly rebuilt 50 years after being destroyed in WW2. The intricate way they combined the old and the new is breathtaking!