by Kile Smith | Aug 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
An unexpected delight was Miniwelt, “a small tour around the world” in the town of Liechtenstein in Saxony. You walk around the park and look at models of architectural marvels of the world. It drew me in, surprised, the longer I was there. The Taj Mahal,...
by Kile Smith | Aug 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
East Germany wasn’t as hard on the Church as other communist countries have been, and are. Its members weren’t rounded up and shot, its houses of worship weren’t (for the most part) destroyed, it was allowed to function, within limits. But being a church member did...
by Kile Smith | Aug 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
A word or two about the Erzgebirge dialect. Not only do all corners of Germany have different accents, corners of corners even have different words, or pronounce words so differently that they sound like different words. I said before how Friedrichsgrün becomes da...
by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the David Suchet Poirot series, in the movie Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the detective orders Brown Windsor Soup, not knowing what it is, on the train to the country. When the plain bowl arrives, he pushes his spoon through it sadly, and questions the...
by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
I hope I am not given to sweeping statements, but traveling has enlightened me to genuine differences between America and Germany. This photo highlights one. America expects drivers to be inattentive, and installs signs everywhere, which are ignored. Germany trusts...
by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Happy Birthday to my dear Jacqueline Smith! We won’t have time for a birthday dinner tonight, since we have men’s choir rehearsal, so here’s a photo from after our recent dinner in Reinsdorf, Saxony, from the parking lot next to the Hirschgasthof,...
by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Leaving the Autobahn church in Gelmeroda, we entered Weimar, and after the St. Peter & Paul Kirche (called the Herderkirche after the Sturm & Drang philosopher & theologian Johann Gottfried Herder who was Herr Pastor there for a time) and outside it, the...