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October 30th, 2018

10/30/2018

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The Ritter Sport family chocolate business - chocolate and social history

A visit to the Ritter Sport chocolate museum in Waldenbuch (between Stuttgart and Tübingen) is a window on social history 

Chocolate history, the Ritter family business through time, a window into ethical business - the company is proudly family owned - , patronage of artists through a gallery next to the museum - and amazing chocolate.

The video is a selection of: early days (the lorry is from 1926!!), the original till from the small shop where the family started in 1912, an ad from 1977 showing men in role as child carers (hoorah for progress!) ....

I left with + 6 kilos of chocolate - telling myself over and over - Christmas presents, Christmas presents ...
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East Munich Woodlands near Waldperlach

10/22/2018

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East Munich woodlands and old quarry in Waldperlach.

The woodland is within Munich city - a haven for wildlife and diverse species of trees and plants.  

The energy of woodlands is unique. Transforming. There are signs of industry - a disused quarry, paths, machines, felled trees - their trunks sprayed with numbers & ready for collection.

But nature is returning, as it will and I was reminded of Wordsworth's poem The Ruined Cottage - how nature reclaims - as the trees have, all around and in the disused quarry. I recorded the music on my Lowden guitar and is one of my versions of Shebeg Shemore originally composed by the great Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan- shorter version to fit the video!
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The Octoberfest as it Used to Be

10/7/2018

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The numbers are staggering: 2018 will see 6.3 million visitors at Munich's Oktoberfest.

One of the best attractions of the Oktoberfest is the Oide Wiesn, an enclosed area with an entry fee of 3 Euros.  Here it is a far less hectic experience and a chance to eat in one of the restaurants - the famous one being the Festzelt Bavarian beer tent. Yes it seats 5,000 - and has a dance floor- if you fancy grooving along to the famous Wolfgang Grünbauer and his orchestra.

The Oide Wiesn (Bavarian for The Old Wiesn or Oktoberfest) is full of memorabilia: Old cycles, motorbikes, parts of fun fair rides, tractors dating from the 1930s, a section of an old Wall of Death (with motorbike), and the traditional bands playing music as it would have sounded decades ago.




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    I'm Vernon Lacey - teacher and author of South  to Barcelona (Ant Press 2018).  

    My interests are varied: Romantic Poetry, Radiohead, The Beatles, tree spotting, cycling, travel, making pizzas ... 

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