Die Seele baumeln lassen

 Jeder der mich kennt, weißt, das unseren Leben sich geändert hat.

Das war nicht geplant!

Auf jeden Fall ist vieles einfach anders, wenn man zusammen zu t Hause ist, anstatt das wenn man seine Beschäftigungen hat.  
Konkret bedeutet es für mich, das ich weniger Freiheit habe, und, logisch, auch weniger Zeit für michselbst zur Verfügung haben.  

Ich mache das gerne, wir sind zusammen, also in gute und in weniger gute Zeiten, und alles hat auch eine gute Seite :) 

Es bedeutett edoch, das ich viel weniger mit der Kamera unterwegs bin. Spontan mal nach Köln oder Düsseldorf, das ist nicht dabei. Ich wertschätze die Zeit, das es geht.  Die letzte Monate hat den Wetter auch nicht immer mitgespielt, aber na ja.

Heute hat alles geklappt. Ich bin spontan in der Bus gestiegen, und habe einen Winterspaziergang rundum das Jröne Meerke gemacht.

Diese Kompilation ist überall zu finden, die Einzelbilder kommen in Hafri Photography, auf Facebook.  Link?  Wer fragt, der bekommt. Ansonsten, warten bis ein nächstes Blog :) 

St Servaas Brug, Maastricht

A few photos from our trip to Maastricht (NL).


One of the most remarkable views (next to the big church) is the St Servaas Brug


The Sint Servaasbrug (or the St. Servatius Bridge) is an arched stone footbridge across the Meuse River in Maastricht, Netherlands. It is named after Saint Servatius, the first bishop of Maastricht, and (despite being largely rebuilt after World War II) it has been called the oldest bridge in the Netherlands.

The Romans built a wooden bridge across the Meuse in what is now Maastricht, in approximately AD 50, and the Latin phrase for "crossing of the Meuse", "mosae trajectum", became the name of the city. For many years this remained the only crossing of the lower Meuse. However, the Roman bridge collapsed in the year 1275 from the weight of a large procession, killing 400 people.Its replacement, the present bridge, was built somewhat to the north of the older crossing between 1280 and 1298; The Roman Catholic Church encouraged its construction by providing indulgences to people who helped build it. The bridge was accoladed in honor of Saint Servatius  this time.

The bridge was renovated in 1680, and in 1825 a wooden strutwork section on the east side of the bridge was replaced by a stone arch. In 1850, as part of the construction of the Maastricht-Liège Canal, a channel was cut on the west side of the bridge.

When in the early 1930s the bridge had been relieved of its function as the city's only river crossing by the construction of the Wilhelmina bridge, 300 metres (1,000 ft) downstream, a major renovation was performed. The arches were reconstructed in concrete, covered with the original stones. Underwater, counter-arches were constructed to prevent erosion of the river bed on which the bridge was built. Two arches on the eastern end of the bridge were removed and replaced by a vertical-lift bridge. Between the two bridges, on the eastern side of the river, a levee was built to separate the navigable eastern channel from the rest of the river.

During World War II the bridge was severely damaged by the German army as they retreated from the Netherlands in 1944, but it was rebuilt in 1948. In 1962, the shipping channel to the east of the bridge was spanned by a steel drawbridge attached to the main bridge

Flexibility

How flexible are we?

How do we act when plans change?

There are people who start feeling upset. Whining that is done wrong to them, and yelling that they might not stop until they have what they want. This blind-eyed anger they spread to who wants to hear it, and they will support the crying child.

There comes a time that children learn that they not always may get what they want. It is a matter of well done raising. Tell your children to have manners, teach them that, when things go different, that there might be other ways to reach your goal. Don't cry, but act.

Yesterday this happened to me (us). A planned trip was delayed, because we drove wrong, and were about 2 hours later then planned at the location.
Imagine what should have happended if we got grumpy?  We should have spoiled a few hours with negativity, and forget that we were around for having fun. Okay, standing in the traffic jam is not fun, sure not when it happens 3 times, but it should not help to get angry. At who? For what to reach? 

And in the end we arrived at our destination, so all was well.
And after a nice walk, we ended with a huge piece of cake and a pot of coffee.  

Where did that bad day go to? It was fun, and we have plenty of memories, to tease eachother with for the coming weeks. :)

There is always a choice, for winning or whining, and you make that choice yourself.


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Who is intrested in our visit of Schloß Wickrath, can click at the duck, to find my protosite