Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The common practice of pollarding trees makes for a different image in the winter. I assume it’s done here to allow unobstructed views of the river (from the upper floors) while still allowing…
If you look in the distance you’ll see a huge Freia clock in Oslo. While Freia is now owned by the mega-international conglomerate Kraft, it’s still really, really good chocolate. I’m standing in front of the Royal Palace in Oslo looking down a main street.…
A lot of the Christmas trees I saw in Norway had a string of Norwegian flags as decoration. You don’t see that so much in the U.S. With American flags, I mean.
Clay Myers-Bowman