Pictures from the Old Operating Theatre, and Sherlock Holmes house/museum. Again-- I have lots more pics, but my battery only has 10 minutes left, so I may have to upload more later. I have pictures from the HMS Belfast and Britain at War Experience, too, and will try to get some of those up before my battery dies.

A picture from the Hard Rock Cafe- The Who's clothes, from Tommy. And- London Zoo, I have videos, too, but won't have time to upload them now. Mostly monkey videos, and some Meerkats. The otter swam up and climbed up in front of my camera (he reminds me of Levi).

Tower of London

London

Verona, Italy

The picture of the Cruxifix (second from top) was in an old, original underground section of the Church; there were relics under the floor and it was very cold down there. The picture of the balcony with two ladies standing on it is Juliette's balcony.

Little Garden

I went out the other day trying to find a 'bigger part of town,' but there's really not much here. I found more forest trails, and city hall, but there wasn't much to do around cityhall- like in the other German cities. I also found this little garden with memorials inside. The little building-type one says "Our Dead" across the top and the plaque lists the men killed in World War 1. The text across the top of the plaque mentions, They sacrified (their lives) for counrty and Fatherland (and were) killed in world war. It's kind of sad, if you read over the names. Some last names are listed 3 or more times, and, being from this small town, must've all been brothers. The bottom picture is another memorial for a war in the 19th century. The writings on it mentioned 'the fight for the Fatherland.' There wasn't a memorial in the park for any dead from WW2.

Basement video

The quality is a little better than how it looks uploaded, but it was just taken with my digital camera.

Keller in der Wald

This is the basement in the woods, that used to be connected to a kitchen were Nazis made women in Concentration Camps cook. The stone says,"To remember the sacrifice of former (outposts?) of Concentration camps (Natzweiler). The dead remind us, never again Fascism, never again War." There are two words I don't know- like the one that translated into outpost, also meant satellite, so some meanings may be different now.

Here's the path leading to the basement, notice the rubble on the left. Next is across from the basement, a huge pile of bricks that may have been the kitchen.

I have more pictures of this, too, but also a video I'm trying to upload. However- it takes FOREVER. I tried starting over, and since then it's been one hour- and it's still uploading. The video isn't even 4 minutes, either, so this is a little annoying.

Dogs

Some time last week I was thinking that there must be some type of law in Germany, that when you buy a dog, you have to take it to obedience training, because more than 1/2 the dogs aren't on leashes, but just stay by their masters and don't bark or lunge or anything. But- right after I thought this, probably 5 days ago or so, it seems every dog comes over to me. Right after I thought it, there was a lady with two dogs in the forest, and the smaller one, a Jack Russell or some type of similar terrier, started running up to me- but not in a mean way. The other dog, a retriever, stayed back until the small one made it all the way to me and kinda of was hopping around me. Then both dogs were up by me, and the little one was hopping up, but not jumping on me. Their owner kept saying, "Nicht springen, nicht springen (no jumping)" to them, and eventaully got them to go back to her when she threw a stick for them. Just yesterday or so, another dog in the forest followed me around. I was taking more pictures, and heard a jingling behind me. There was a big dog about halfway between me and his 'parents', quite a ways down the path. He stayed between us, and I was expecting his parents to call him back. He was a little scary looking- he was like a Doberman, but not so skinny and sleek, and like a Rottweiler, but not so husky; so he may have been a German Shepard with dark markings. When I'd stop to look at him, he'd kind of run up to me, but always circle around before getting right up to me. When I went and sat down for a minute on a big log, I heard him jingling toward me again. He looked all happy, but again stopped before getting too close to me. His parents eventually caught up and told him to come with them. The woman picked up a stick which got his attention, but then I thought he was going to bring it back to me. As his parents walked on, he stayed behind, about halfway between me and them again, and he kept looking back at me. The couple turned down a side path, and the dog, whose name may have been Alfi, followed them down it. And- on the way back some type of little poodle walked right up to me, and let me pet it. Last week, there was a little Scotty dog thing that started to speed up its walk toward me, but his owner reached down and held his collar so he couldn't leave. And- once they were just past me, the dog didn't even look back or turn around- I can't believe all these dogs and not even one has ever been mean.

The only dog that even sounded a little mean was a German Shepard behind a fence- but it couldn't see me, I think it just barked because it heard people walking near his house. The other one in the yard was looking though the little area of fence not boarded up, and just looked at me. He watched me both times I walked past, and looked friendly. They were both real pretty, with different markings than Arly. They had black in the same areas, but where Arly has tan, they were much more red.

Die Augenbåume

I took better pictures of some more eye-trees. I have a lot more pictures than I post, but most of them are similar, so I don't want the posts to get too boring. I put my hand in the picture with one of the eye-trees, so you can get an idea of how big they are.





These are just some general forest pictures. One is of a crater-like area, which there are a bunch of, but it doesn't really show up too well in the photos.

Some pics from my phone

I went back to the forest today, but didn't take my camera. I need to go back since I found some pretty neat stuff.




I found a basement, that used to be connected to a kitchen Nazis made women from the camps cook in. There's lots of plaques along certain trails that talk about women in concentration camps, but this is the first one to actually have something left over. There's one picture from outside the basement, and another from inside.

The picture of the sign turned out much better than I thought it would with the camera-phone. The text mentions:

"We were allowed to take absolutely nothing with us from the kitchen (workplace). When someone took something, for example a turnip or something similar to 'treasure', and was discovered, she would have to spend the whole night closed up in the basement.

(Two Jews came, and had to sit -somewhere-). When the blows/shocks weren't strong enough the fight would begin."

The second part is kind of unclear, and seems to be a jump from what she was saying earlier, but it could be snipets from a longer interview.

I also found some more "eye trees," much bigger ones, covered in eyes.