Zone1 Hello from the former Grand-Duchy of Baden in South-West-Germany

[Zebra]

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But German beer is so much higher quality than ours.

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I recommend Löwenbräu ... original German with the Umlauts

 

[Zebra]

Frankonian Bocksbeutel ? - eeek, yuck - just horrible - tastes like herb Champagne left warm without bubbles.

you are right there about the Frankonian wine

but in our region in Mittelbaden only the best of our Rieslings go into the Bocksbeutel.

 

[Zebra]

Correct - the Bocksbeutel is just a designation for a bottle-shape - but in Frankonia (these bottles are filled with Frankonian wine). And personally I find Frankonian wine to be awful as I described; tastes like warm, herb, Champagne without bubbles. (Since that wine is not served cold or at a lower temperature - maybe due to the grapes (Silvaner) they use).
But hey - everyone to his own liking.

Bocksbeutel direkt ab Hof bei WirWinzer

Bocksbeutel Weine online kaufen direkt ab Hof bequem und einfach - Versandkostenfrei ab 12 Flaschen zum BESTPREIS

wirwinzer.de

BTW; parts of my family have owned vineyards and been winemakers since the 15th century. - but it ain't running in my veins

and there is a law that only Frankonia may use the Bocksbeutel, with one exception: three villages, that are now part of Baden.Baden, may use it as well.

And you can find a similar type of bottle in Portugal

 

[Zebra]

It's a beautiful country and tonight I'm watching a Marcel Pagnol movie that I collect just like the American series of the 60s and 70s.

Dalia is no longer here. A pity

 

[pal]

Hello from South-West-Germany!

You are rated higher before I read here. You come from Germany. Are you a German or are you a immigrant?

 

[Zebra]

Actually, my great-grandfather on my mother's side was a Prussian Baron. I don't have many details about him though. His son came to America brought here by his mother. He had a family to another German girl he met here and my mother was their youngest child. I have photos going back to my grandfather and my great-grandmother (his mother who brought him here). Those old Germans were some tough ol' birds-- I suppose that is where I get my nature and survival from.

Luckily, my mother took an interest in all of this growing up and took notes talking to her sisters, brothers, parents, and other relatives when she was young and years back, I carefully took all her handwritten notes and reconstructed them into a family tree chart with as many details as I could about my mother's side of the family, but unfortunately, no one on my father's side ever did, so, details there are far fewer.

Here is one of the pictures I have of my great-grandmother:

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And her son, my grandfather, whom she brought here to America on a ship somewhere around 1880s-1890:

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I seem to take after him and look a lot like him. Then once here, he met my grandmother and they got married in 1902:

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Then much later in life, here they are much older, holding my mother, their last child, probably somewhere around the late 1920s.

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Unfortunately, I never met either one, they both passed away before I was born.

Thanks for these great pictures!

I just looked at them again.

Really historic!

 

[Zebra]

My health is going….

this time it is worse ...

 

[Zebra]

 

[Zebra]

I live in Germany.

Fine!

 

[Zebra]

To whom it may concern …

Today Maccabi from Tel Aviv is playing in Freiburg, Germany, near the Black Forest. Riot Police is ready …..

 

[Zebra]

Twas all peaceful yesterday