Found Objects

It’s not only a neat little city for the tourists. The moment we left the centre —first to go to church in a neighbourhood just outside it, later to walk to the Dampoort station to catch a train— we saw many more houses that were tumbledown, badly kept, neglected, than the occasional one in the centre. The point seems to be that if it’s not touristic, it’s not worth keeping up. I have a suspicion that St. Michael’s church, for instance, is kept poor by its obscurity: it’s not one of the Big Sights, though <plug> if you like churches it’s perhaps even better </plug>, much more churchy.

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When I was in Germany (via Koblenz) I took lots of photos with the intention of blogging about at least some of the things in the photos. And I made up lots of text in my head, but I didn’t have a laptop with me (on purpose; the expletive-deleted thing weighs seven pounds and the power unit another two, and I had to carry everything on my back). And writing on the Apple is.. well… uncomfortable.

I wrote the preceding entry, about the phone, almost the moment we were back from holiday (late July) but kept it until I’d have posted the holiday entries.

And now, of course, I don’t know what I wanted to write.

Perhaps some of it will trickle through, and I’ll post a retrospective…

We’ve rented a holiday house in Germany. In Steinbach-Hallenberg, in fact, a little town in the middle of nowhere^WThüringen in the former German Democratic Republic.

Now to get there. By train: it has a station, that’s one of the reasons we picked it. (Other reasons are that it’s in the middle of the woods, in hilly country, not really developed for tourism yet, and it has a beautiful ruined castle.)

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