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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sign I saw at the Lech waterfall close to Füssen (and Austria, and Neuschwanstein Castle) in the very South of Germany: 🤩

Sign saying 'unisex toilet' picturing an array of beings in all shapes and forms

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Just checked&was delighted to find that the place I rent DVDs from has it. (Also nice to see you post about something you thoroughly enjoy after so many depressed posts I am at a loss about how to reply to - hang in there - this world (and us) are a mess but we're only here for a short time anyway)

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

While the May of Things is a great month, this is the one I meant to post instead of it twice:

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If you pronounce my name the Spanish way instead of the English one (like Beatriz), you will be much closer to the way it's pronounced in German. BTW - do you have a drum you can also sit on, or a stool you can also drum on ? (Obviously much easier on the road than complete drums)

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Loved your Saturday concert - too bad it will only be up on YT for 72 hours. Where again did you play ? If you want to have fun, watch with automated captions on.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Looking forward to Mafalda.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

They fixed it (our weather is not totally crazy......yet)

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It's the system..... (so: no weather forecast for today)

weather forecast site providing impossible temperatures for diverse places

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is the strangest weather forecast I've ever seen. Curious to see if temperatures really will drop 15°C between 10 and 12 am without even a thundestorm - whethter the bug is in the weather or the forecasting system......

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I'll try Amazon - I know we hate it all for good reasons, but I am old enough to remember how difficult it was to order anything not published in Germany before Amazon..... Thanks for the reply & best of luck for your book. Found your page-seems it's not there yet but others are available.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Read up on William and Martha Dodd and their time in Berlin in the 1930s when Dodd was US ambassador there - fascinating read. Keep learning more about history. (Also on Rudolf Diels, Ernst Hanfstängel, 'Boris Vinogradov' and 'Jeffersonianism', as Dodd considered himself Jeffersonian)

Book cover of Erik Larson's IN THE GARDEN OF THE BEASTS - referring to a huge Berlin park called 'Tiergarten', 'animal garden' (where once the nobles went hunting for sport) - and metaphorically also the Nazis and their rise.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I was very impressed by that one in Arlanda airport when I visited Stockholm in 2024.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Plus a dawn pic and a deer statue (place was named after it) in the dawn

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Also found that the places East of where I live (Stuttgart area), with more Catholic traditions, tend to have giant churches in tiny places

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A town hall in a German village having turned itself into an advent calendar.

An about 100 years old town hall building having turned each window into an advent calendar door with Chrismas decorations inside

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Found a place nearby, and easy to reach by public transport, which makes me feel like being at the top of the world and at the edge of infinity

large field stretching to an open horizon

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

(Not my fav pic - but it's easy to find many others, and he loves to give interviews and to explain Vecna)

Jamie Campbell Bower on the cover of the UK Rolling Stone, dressed in black with a white rose.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Walk across & along the Neckar river near Stuttgart, Germany the winter before last:

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Not really a portal into another world - but it sure does look like one:

Narrow train underpass with a round roof that looks like a portal

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Just looked up Kotzebue on Google maps - seems so weird to me it's in Alaska because he was a German writer - but, as I have just learned, also a diplomat in Russia. As with everything/-one I feel I should know more about, I will read up on him on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_...

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Stuttgart, Germany has one of these, too:

Art museum in Stuttgart, Germany in the shape of a partly transparent cube

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Bukele has suggested that solution quite some time ago - and though it is just a lesser evil, it's the only one I could think of that might work. (Not that he is not evil at all, but he has brains, and expresses himself in complete well-written sentences)

X post by Bukele addressed to Maduro in which he suggests exchanging the Venezuelans in CECOT for political prisoners in Venezuela.

He claims El Salvador has not political prisoners and the Venezuelans in CECOT are there for crimes of one nature or another.
Then he adds a lists of names of whom he wants free from Venezuelan prisons.

He includes asking for 50 prisoners who are not Venezuelan nationals.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Not quite the same - but early mornings can be beautiful around here (where I am stuck, for better or for worse), too: Good Morning

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Clouds piling up dramatically (and yet I was surprised when it suddenly started to rain)

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Stuttgart has so many beautiful old houses from around 1900 (which, I have just learned, was one of Germany's best times). Wouldn't that one make a great fantasy movie setting ?

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Not the greatest of views, nor the most inviting of benches - but a blessing after an early morning walk on a day on which it is too hot for almost anything at 7 am already:

Dense forest branches lighted up by morning sun

My backpack (with book) on a dilapidated bench covered with moss.

Small forest path branching off from bigger path leading to a bench.

More dense early summer forest (small tress and branches)

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Last 4 books I have read/am reading. All wonderful. 15 out of 10.

THE ISLANDER by Chris Blackwell.
About growing up rich in Jamaica, falling in love with its music and music in general and founding a music business that among others gave the world Bob Marley.

MY LIFE WITH BOB MARLEY by Rita Marley
STILL ME by Christopher Reeve - how to live on after a paralyzing accident plus remembering life before
UNZIPPED by Suzi Quatro - one of the earliest female rock musicians; still very much alive and touring

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

From the news site I have to go through when I open my German mail account: (it's not a very good site, but mostly accurate, just often mostly trivia - good to see they do report on what ICE is doing and the protest against it)

A news account (in German, not seen here) about ICE raiding a Taco-truck in LA and arresting sellers and customers - and protests against it.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I don't have a garden. But I go for walks.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Have you watched HIDALGO ? Sure, quite a stretch from real history - but so beautiful.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Learned today that there is a plant/spice called `torch ginger`. Will probably never taste it - but look at it: so interesting and beautiful ! www.tasteatlas.com/kecombrang

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Found him ! (In case you or anybody who reads this should be interested)

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm landlocked here, but last year around this time I visited Stockholm (the Swedish one) which has hundreds of ferries and channels and felt similar - loved it. (Just very hot, as the sun was stinging down much more vertical that far north).

Channels, ferries and clouds in Stockholm, Sweden in June.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Also, it's easily reached by tram (and morning sun is always magic)

Long early summer grass in the morning light.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Meanwhile I am trying to make the best of my peaceful but somewhat boring home area - have discovered a new favourite bench (for the view up, not the one down):

Wide view from a park bench on a sunny early summer morning.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Adding a lovely pic of a Swedish boyband and their manager over LA around 2016 (one of their former members was my last Munich concert. It was wonderful, but my health problem caught up with me).

The four members of former Swedish boyband THE FOOO CONSPIRACY sitting over LA watching the sunset.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

When wars became 'great'. I hope and pray they won't again.

Description of how WWI was first called the great war. From Wikipedia.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Could be around here (Stuttgart, S-Germany area) - only that spring is somewhat more advanced here. Nothing spectacular, but really nice parks, and we have a public transport ticket for all over Germany for around 50 EUR a month. As long as I have internet, too, for looking farther... From February:

Little lake with trees and some houses in the background.
Leafless trees, as it is February.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I love Scotland, but I never found the appropriate footwear. I am mainly stuck where I was born, though, the greater Stuttgart area in the South of Germany. But with the appropriate mindset, beauty can be found anywhere, and I often even succeed in finding spots I never have been before.

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Beate @temporaryhermit.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Just found Lost Heaven. Apparently, it's in Shanghai and both expired and coming soon.

Photo of a restaurant in Shanghai called Lost Heaven and the result of a search for its website which says both 'expired' and 'coming soon'.

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