2010-09-30
Glaring lights in the woods
Either a UFO is about to land or they are working round the clock to build an extension to the sports school.
2010-09-25
Breakout
Sometimes the inhabitants of the zoo get bored of their surroundings and decide to go for a stroll.
2010-09-22
Torque revisted
Since the owl landed (2010-04-03), there is a new perspective on Richard Serra's sculpture.
2010-09-18
Plodding
The spots on Mr Tortoise's back where the first drops in a torrential downpour that cleared the zoo of human visitors in the space of a minute.
2010-09-16
Tower ruins
The remains of Bucherbach castle, built in the 14th century and, like much else, totally devastated in the Thirty Years War.
2010-09-12
Red bricks
In Saarland, one rarely sees bare red brick façades, but in the pretty old mining town of Von der Heydt one sees nothing else.
2010-09-07
White pithead
In 1994 at a cost of ca 200 mllion euros, the tallest pithead in the world went into operation in Göttelborn. So much money and hi-tech would surely save the coal-industry in Saarland. But it was not to be. Six years later all coal-mining in Göttelborn ceased. By the end of 2011 not a single chunk of coal will be produced in Saarland.
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