A woman climbs a rope in front of a screen showing the European Union flag during a show interlude at a conference in Frankfurt, Nov.14.
Tag: germany
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St. Martin’s Procession
Kids from a local primary school and a kindergarten carry their lanterns during a St. Martin’s procession in Frankfurt, Nov.11. Processions like this one take place each year mainly in the catholic areas of Germany and other countries. November 11 is the feast day of St. Martin of Tours (France), who started out as a Roman soldier and later became a monk. In one legend about his life he once cut his cloak in half and shared it with a beggar during a snowstorm.
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Fair Tower
Frankfurt’s Fair Tower (Messeturm), seen through the branches of a tree (and from my balcony :-)) at sunset, Nov.11. Between 1991 and 1997, the 256 meter-high (840 ft) tower was the highest office building in Europe, which now I believe is the Mercury City Tower in Moscow (338 meters, 1110 ft).
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The Sliding Bevel
Marc Steinike checks the shape of a motorbike seat with his sliding bevel (in German ‘Schmiege’ – a word that until this morning I didn’t know even existed) in his workshop in Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt, Nov.8. . Steinike crafts custom-made orthopaedic seats for motorbikers.
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Sugar-to-be
Tons of sugar beet wait for transport to the sugar factory on a field at Riedstadt, some 50 kms (30 mls) south of Frankfurt, Nov.7. Wikipedia says that Germany is the fourth biggest producer of sugar beet in the world. (Taken with my fisheye lens)
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