Andy Rodker

Awesome view for them =) Nicely composed shot!

Terrific impressiv shot Andy. (did you fly along that rock?)

Not familiar with Fontane's work; the translation seems very good!
Thank you Sonja!

That was something else, by pablo Neruda, that is about a black vulture of the new world actually.

The Tyne Bridge poem of the German author should be translated somewhere, but I cant find any. It is mostly about the 3 witches from Shakespeare perching somewhere overlooking the scenery and talking about humans and their technical advance, as about details from the disaster nothing was in the german papers when he already made a sucessful ballad of it. They got a refrain about how the manmade stuff is just useless.

I thought that you get more of that than us, but then most I know of real british life and education in our times is from TV murder mysteries (and well, I fear all those caracters on Inspector Barneby and Lewis do not reflect the averagely educated people), and in our english early lessons we only learned about victorian and very harmless everyday stuff and then a lot of classics to be educated ourselves, all the well known G-rated bits and pieces by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Tennyson, Wilde e.c.t..... As soon we where so old to have more serious reality toppics than ""What's for Breakfast" or "Moving Day", it was almost all about big american topics teachers thought educational and that did paint also a fully wrong picture of everyday people there as I saw for myself in all those years there.

All I did learn and remember of the live of the two made up british schoolkids Colin and Linda in the frame story of the 5th grade english book was stuff like --- they wear uniforms with ties at school which subsequently hang into the soup during lunch if they are not careful, they get lost during school outings in parks full of bluebells and swans that belong to the queen herself, they do eat vinegar with fries they call chips and the cake the family recives on Christmas is saved to give somone else next year whilst dad wonders how old it is already as it is a traditon and not for eating.... LOL
Of their supposed curriculum I don't think I learned ever much more than "And the green, green grass grows all around " and "Away in a Manger".
I sincerely hope this whole misery does not reflect your experiances as about 10 year old pupil -- LOL