On Saturday afternoon I’ve been to the city centre, right after the rain stopped, but it was still a bit windy. I liked the atmosphere with the dark clouds, though.
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The other day we had a family excursion to see the highlights of the famous “Ring of Kerry” with a Cork coach company specialized into day tours.
The tour was very pleasant, the driver was explaining historical, geological and economical facts about Cork and Ireland in general in a very entertaining way.
We saw a bog village, Dingle bay, Waterville, Sneem, Muckross House, Killarney and many other great sights.
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The other day I saw a nice flowerbox in front of the PDL in Münsterstraße
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The fourth was with us, we cycled quite relaxed today from Dortmund main station through the forest to Haus Dellwig.
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Yesterday I met a group of people from facebook and couchsurfing to walk around Phoenix West to Phoenixsee. Although I’ve been there already, there have been many nice impressions, and the others being more technically able in photography were able to give me another view on photography. Still those are my usual pictures taken with my compact camera “from the hip” 😉
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We did a small bike tour yesterday, here are some pictures, it’s the artificial lake called Phoenixsee as there was the steelworks “Hoesch Phoenix” before.
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Yesterday there was april weather in Dortmund. In German we say “April, April, er macht was er will” (April, April, it does what it wants to do).
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Today during lunch break I was trying to take pictures of butterflies. Only one let me take a picture, I guess its name is Speckled Wood (Waldbrettspiel, Laubfalter).
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If you’re like me you enjoy watching butterflies (today when I did not have my camera with me due to charging my mobile a couple of them even sat down in front of me), at least in Dortmund I’ve been to a good spot during my lunch break, in the Technologiepark between Hauert / Universitätsstraße / Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße / Otto-Hahn-Straße. The small wood sported different kinds of butterflies 🙂
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I’ve been a bit knocked out yesterday, but nevertheless the weekend was very nice, Music on Friday and Saturday and on Sunday a small bike tour into the east of Dortmund, chilling out in Westpark and having a dinner made by fellow couchsurfing friends 🙂
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It’s spring 🙂 I would have loved to put up pictures of butterflies but unfortunately the little fellows have been to busy today to pose for my camera, so it’s flowers instead. I’ve been at Nordstadt, An der Palmweide, in Technologiepark and Dorstfeld in Dortmund and at Zollverein in Essen that day.
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Yesterday I’ve been asked by a guest about the Steinwache memorial – I must admit that after nearly 15 years in Dortmund I never thought much about it, I was thinking it was like one room with some black/white pictures, but I did not know how wrong I’ve been all the time.
The memorial has a permanent exhibition about German history from roughly 1930 to 1945, with a focus of the events in the area around Dortmund. It’s a refurbished prison and each of the 50 cells on 3 levels has a different topic. So you should take some time, at least 2 hours I’d say. The easiest way to understand the contents in English is to buy the € 0,50 guidebook in English.
I did not want to take pictures inside it. Admission is free, see http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/stadtarchiv/steinwache/ (in German) for more information.
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Gestern hat mich ein Gast nach der Gedenkstätte Steinwache gefragt – ich muß zugeben, nach fast 15 Jahren in Dortmund habe ich nicht viel über diesen Ort nachgedacht, ich hatte mir vorgestellt, es handele sich um einen Raum mit ein paar Schwarz/weiß-Aufnahmen, aber ich wußte nicht, wie falsch ich damit lag.
Die Gedenkstätte hat eine Dauerausstellung über deutsche Geschichte von ca. 1930 bis 945 mit dem Schwerpunkt auf das Gebiet um Dortmund. Es handelt sich um ein umgebautes Gefängnis und jede der 50 Zellen auf 3 Etagen hat ein anderes Thema. Deshalb sollte man etwas Zeit mitbringen, ich denke, mindestens 2 Stunden. Für englischsprachige Besucher gibt es den Museumsführer als Broschüre für € 0,50 zu kaufen (die deutsche Broschüre ist ebenfalls für € 0,50 erhältlich).
Ich wollte keine Photos machen. Der Eintritt ist frei, mehr Informationen gibt es unter http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/stadtarchiv/steinwache/.
Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Steinwache
Yesterday I did have my camera with me so I could take some pictures of trees and bushes in bloom while going to work/having a coffee break 🙂
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Yesterday I had my camera with me when I spotted this beautiful sunset over Dortmund main station
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