WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE

Beer banks with self service (seen in Germany)



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1. What is one area of your life where you're a perfectionist? Is that a good thing?
I don't know if that is a good thing, but I am the opposite of a perfectionist so what is that a mess ionist ? 

2. What's something you find perfectly ridiculous?
Somebody who pretends to be more than he really is. Like people with a huge car in front of the house door and no furniture inside ! 

3. What's a skill you've developed by way of that old fashioned saying, 'practice makes perfect?
Everything concerning a computer and what you can do with it I learned by myself ! 

4. What's your idea of a perfect breakfast?
A good strong black coffee with sugar ! 

5. What's a trip, holiday, vacation, or day outing you've taken that you'd rate a perfect 10? Tell us why.
I have travelled so much in such beautiful areas that it is difficult for me to choose. But I will take one I did 3 years ago. It was a coach trip through the whole UK. From London up to Loch Ness and higher on one side and from Scotland over Wales on the other side. It was perfect !  I have seen such a beautiful landscape and towns !

6. What quote or saying perfectly sums up your life right now? If you can't do perfect, how about one that comes close?
Breathe, it's just a bad day not a bad life ! (I just had a Bronchitis)

7. How would you spend $300 today?
I wouldn't spend it but put it aside for my travel piggy bank 

8. Insert your own random thought here.
I think since weeks I have the same thought I wonder when the rain will stop ! 

From this side of the pond

LEVERKUSEN SURROUNDINGS

When I visited my old schoolfriend from 1951 who lives near Leverkusen, she showed me the surroundings. We couldn't do all we wanted to do because the weather was so bad.

First we stopped at Schloss Morsbroich .











Morsbroich Castle, home to the avant-garde museum, is situated in a vast, well-kept nature park with a sculpture garden. First recorded in 1220, Morsbroich was the seat of the Teutonic Knights from 1619 to 1803. In 1774 Ignaz von Roll demolished the medieval castle and replaced it with a baroque palace. In 1857 Friedrich von Diergardt, a silk manufacture from Viersen, took over the house and added two wings to it in 1885. The city of Leverkusen acquired Morsbroich Castle in 1974. Today, it houses an art museum and a restauran.

Unfortunately it was too windy, and cold, that we couldn't see the garden only a little bit at the entrance where the first spring flowers showed their nose.

Next stop was the Restaurant "Die Wacht am Rhein" (The Guard on the Rhine)



From outside I didn't like the architecture of it.



There was a modern sculpture from a famous sculptor, so famous that I don't remember his name. It was out of metal and to me is a question of taste.



Inside the restaurant was nicely decorated and modern, the food was excellent, they mostly serve local specialities.



Marilyn greets you at the entrance !



The Bayer Leverkusen company owns most of the area and here was the employees club for canoe and other water sports.





It must be very beautiful there when the weather is nice, there is a lot of traffic on the Rhine.

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