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Flowers and Parking Lot Construction

Those “smarter” flowers from my previous post on local municipal projects are dark purple tulips.

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Bridge Report, April 2013

The bridge saga continues.

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Having some bridge work done

The work on Regensburg’s iconic Stone Bridge (“die steinerne Brücke”) trudges on. They must have made some major progress while we were out of the country, waiting out the winter. Now the auxiliary pedestrian bridge has been extended significantly and … Continue reading

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Bridging the Gap into Spring

Finally, a little sunlight for Regensburg this weekend!

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The Dult is done, now come visit us for serious reasons

Sunday marked the final day of the Regensburger Maidult 2011. We managed to visit a few times — more than usual — for a taste of the local carny flavor. But don’t worry — there’ll be plenty of Fest over … Continue reading

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Stadtamhof Weinfest 2010

Stadtamhof’s Weinfest was this weekend. We picked up a couple winners and enjoyed the people watching as usual.

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Almost all the scaffolding is down

…and it looks great! I don’t think it’s looked this good since the freshly bepoped Pope came home for a visit in 2006 or so.

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Pass the Peas, like we used to say

Last night, our Budapest travel buddy Monet accompanied us to the Alte Mälzerei for the Fred Wesley and the New JBs show there. This was our first time in the Alte Mälzerei, but I daresay it won’t be our last. … Continue reading

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No more Netto in Stadtamhof — at least not until 2011

I got this information from TV Aktuell, the local TV station. Our neighborhood grocery store closed last Monday, leaving our island in the Danube even more isolated. We’ve got no bus service due to the Protzenweiher Brücke being closed to … Continue reading

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Return to teh Intarwebs

So Arcor/Deutsche Telekom decided to stop sucking! At the proverbial 11th hour, their reps showed up and spent a whopping 7.5 minutes flipping whatever switch needed to be flipped to connect us. In the final tally, we spent 16.75 hours … Continue reading

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