Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
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You may know that in Germany we celebrate Christmas Eve, much more than the actual Christmas day. The eve is when you come together, give your presents, have enormous amounts of food, drinks, whatever.
We had a good day here today, which isn't always guaranteed in a family with separated parents. My children, my partner and all of my three siblings plus partners (and one dog) were here.
I made goose breast with red cabbage, and we had some rissoles, potato and carrot salads with it, plus nice wines (white and red).
At 11 pm when everybody left, me and my partner went down to Kiel's main church, St. Nikolai, which is a 10 min walk from my flat. The oldest parts of St. Nikolai date from the 13th century but it was heavily destroyed in WWII and still bears scars from that times.
In front of the church stands a sculpture called Geistkämpfer (The Fighter of the Spirit) by Ernst Barlach, which the Nazis didn't like but could be saved from being destroyed.
The Christmas Mass was beautiful, with music from the organ and a choir, mainly Bach and Mendelson.
Afterwards we walked home through an empty and silent inner city.
And passed the town hall square with the opera house.
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
Hope you'll all have wonderful Christmas days with beloved people. Merry Christmas to all of you, all over the world.
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Beautiful @endo
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@endo, beautifully done, thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas.
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merry christmas mate , have a wonderful time !
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Frohe Weihnachten @endo
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It is 🥶 @sabergirl but I did wear it once this week. Had to go to work by car. Have to explain, I don't own a car. Don't need one. I'm living pretty central in my city and can walk or cycle almost everywhere in town. For commuting to my practice, which is in a small town 30k south, I have a 15 min walk down to the station and then a 30 min train ride. This works fine, usually. But this week we not only had a train drivers strike, also farmers were blocking some roads with tractors to emphasize their opinions on our country's state. You know what I mean. And Germans can also go crazy, sometimes, a little bit.
So, I had to take a car. Which means I rent one from a cooperative car sharing. Pretty neat since you can take the kind of car you need for that occasion. Little money, no hassle with finding parking lots, no repairs, tires, whatever, I like it. And since it was electric, even no fill ups. And I finally got where I wanted. Wearing the wabash
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TBH I don't really know. They must have reasons, and it's certainly an important and difficult job, given all the changes that have come and that are still necessary. What I find problematic is the blocking of public life (to a certain extend). You surely have a right to state your opinion (within limits here, thankfully) and to demonstrate, but IMO this goes a bit to far sometimes. Here it felt like. What was good, the rightwing suckers tried to jump on the train (or tractor) and the farmers didn't let them.
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Without getting too political and going into too much detail, the coalition government has to resubmit the budget and, due to budgetary restraints, two separate subsidies for farmers were going to be cut. The cuts have since been reversed for the most part, but the protests went ahead regardless. In general, more a result of not feeling respected, ever increasing bureaucracy and dirt cheap food prices making it difficult to earn a living (for some)
