Some photos

When I moved to Austin, I got myself a digital camera, making it simpler to allow others to trace my ways in this new country. So this is the place for the friends at home to see where I have been...

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Germany in winter (December 2005)

Here's a bit of snow in Germany from around Christmas 2005. The first few pictures are from a visit in the Hunsrück area in the west of Germany where our friends Marc and Pamela hail from. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have a picture of the two of them from the front. In any case, here's first Pam and Jill pushing the stroller with their daughter Amy, then Jill in the ruins of an old castle, then the castle by itself:

Then here's some old-town feeling in downtown Mainz:

Finally, even grown men (me, my brother in law Simon, my dad, and my uncle Karl-Ernst; average age around 50) sometimes need to be silly and build snow men when the opportunity presents itself. It took all four of us to lift its head onto the torso: