Sunday evening, September 12, 2010: Erfurt, Thueringen, Germany

Harry, our faithful passenger and good-luck charm, needs some facial and brain surgery....  He's a bit worse for the wear.  Baths in the washing machine do not agree with Harry in his old age.

John and Eva with their Thueringen Bratwurst!  Yum, yum!

Anja, John, Wolfgang, Eva, and Kerstin with their Thueringen Bratwurst!

Anja, intercepting a call from a very special person....

Eis!  (Ice Cream!)

Anja with Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread)...a TV personality for children in Germany!

We could have used one of these cameras for our 1920's set Mystery Dinner Theatre last April!

How does Anja compare in height to the Sunflowers?

A shop for lefties....

Kerstin is a leftie!

Dachshunds....Karen loves dogs, what can we say?

Anja with the Sandman!

Anja, Eva, and Kerstin

Eva and Kerstin

Johannes und Wolfgang

Wolfgang was very intriged with this car from GDR times, a Wartburg.

Wartburg

Wolfgang chased away this couple so Kerstin could take a photo of him with the car!

Reminded us of a time in New York City when we saw a dog with a cat on its back, with a mouse on top of the cat!

John, Kerstin, Wolfgang, Anja, and Eva hamming it up.

Dinner at Athos-Der Grieche

Kerstin and Eva

Anja and Kerstin

Wolfgang

John and Wolfgang

My Moussaka

Der Ampelmaennschen
Ampelmännchen (help·info) (German: little traffic light man, pl. Ampelmännchen) is the symbolic person shown on traffic lights at pedestrian crossings in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR - East Germany). Prior to the German reunification in 1990, the two German states had different forms for the Ampelmännchen, with a generic human figure in West Germany, and a generally male figure wearing a hat in the east.
The Ampelmännchen is a beloved symbol in Eastern Germany,^[1] "enjoy[ing] the privileged status of being one of the few features of communist East Germany to have survived the end of the Iron Curtain with his popularity unscathed."^[2] After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ampelmännchen acquired cult status and became a popular souvenir item in the tourism business.^[1]

 

 

 

Der Ampelmaennschen