Snow on the Feldberg (in April)

These photos were taken this morning, Thursday, 16th April, 2024 on the Feldberg in the Taunus area:

Snow at the summit of the Feldberg on 16th April, 2024
Snow on the approach road to the Feldberg on 16th April, 2024

Sunset over the Feldberg range

Sunset over the Feldberg range on Saturday, 9th July, 2022

Violence in the Taunus area

Oberursel's town hallSeveral weeks ago a visitor to the town hall (Rathaus) in Oberursel attacked the people working there with a knife.  Only a day later I read that it was believed an attack  might take place at a grammar school in Frankfurt.

It’s not that these things don’t happen in Germany, but these two were too close for comfort – I even had a meeting the very next day at the town hall to attend!

It made me wonder if this sort of violence was on the increase.  Were these one-off attacks or threats?  I often read the local news and even the police press releases and can’t remember anything on quite this scale for a long time.

And yes, it worries me. [Read more…]

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