MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Hi Allan,
great video clips. The bridge structure is very impressive. The “Flying Scotsman” as well. Have you ever traveled on this museum train? Is there still a modern version of the Flying Scotsman that runs regularly on the London – Edinburgh route?
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Very nice Jacki. Which building do you see at the beginning of the video clip? Is this the Parliament Hill? It looks like a mix of town hall and church. A beautiful building.
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The second drone flight also starts near the slag heap in my hometown, at the motorway bridge and follows it east into the Ruhr area. There are shots of industrial ruins to see, which still characterize our landscape today. Among them is a disused steel mill in the north of Duisburg, which today invites visitors to climb, dive and hike. And back again to the Lower Rhine with its small castles and monasteries.
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A beautiful idea Jung. So I started searching the endless expanses of the internet and was visibly surprised that I found what I was looking for. When I look out my bedroom window I see a green slag heap in the background. One of the few elevations that exist here (incredible 103 meters high /340 ft.), because the land is flat like a slice of cheese. This hill was created when the overburden from the surrounding mines was piled up there (similar to my personal, world’s best winter slede run from my childhood, you may remember…). At the top of this slagheap stands a 30 meter (98 ft.) high sculpture that is supposed to represent an oversized miner’s lamp. This is illuminated at night and can be climbed via a spiral staircase. From up there you have a wonderful view over the surrounding landscape, the so-called Lower Rhine („Niederrhein“) with its small towns and fields. In the background you can see the Rhine and a large motorway bridge that leads to Duisburg in the Ruhr area („Ruhrpott“). A small lake can also be seen. Originally this was a large pit from which Rhine sand was taken. Today it is green recreational areas, through which beautiful bike and hiking trails lead, which I like to use.
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Some beautiful, icy impressions from Iceland:
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Once a year, a world of ice and snow grows out of the ground in Harmin:
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Hi Jung,
thank you for the beautiful train ride through the snowy Canadian winter wonderland. I enjoyed it much. If the train went a little further north, you could almost visit Daryl, who is probably shoveling snow somewhere there. I find the aluminium-colored railway carriages very interesting. They remind me of the Airstream caravans and mobile homes. They look like spaceship designs from the 1950s.
Matching the winter special topic some real cool music (on a more serious topic):
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I wish you all a wonderful Christmas time and stay groovy!!!
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And here is a very popular German Christmas song, dramatic reinterpreted by Tarja Turunen, the former front woman of the Finnish symphonic metal band „Nightwish”:
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For those who find most Christmas carols just too harmonious, here are two alternative songs:
I found an extraordinary cover version of the song „Winterwonderland“ by the South Korean band Jaurim. A little psychedelic, a little gothic. I had already presented this band in another topic and I am always impressed by the musical range they have to offer:
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Thanks Tom,
I wish you a Merry Christmas and may all your wishes for the coming year come true. I wanted to send you some rocking Spanish Christmas greetings (I thought something different than the eternal “Rocking around the Christmas tree” story), but I couldn’t find anything useful, so I’ll just say: Oye Como Va?
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Yeah, sitting at Beethoven’s grand piano and touching the keys: Certainly a moving experience. On weekends, short concerts on historical instruments take place in the Beethoven House and the respective pianist tells a little story about the music performed. Perhaps the opportunity to get in touch with Beethoven’s piano. In Vienna there is also a small Beethoven Museum and you have the opportunity to see the musician’s apartments of Johann Strauss, Franz Schubert and Joseph Haydn as well. And of course the life and work of Mozart.
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Hi Daryl,
have you already done a test flight with your drone? Is the control very complicated and does it take a lot of practice before you can fly with it? Which model do you have? Just like Jung, I would also like to get a drone because I like taking photos and filming. Unfortunately, the use of such drones as a private individual is very limited. As long as you don’t exceed a certain altitude, you don’t need a special license. A liability insurance is mandatory and you have to be registered as a drone owner. The use of drones over residential areas and nature reserves is prohibited. And air control zones are of course not allowed to be flown into. Unfortunately, this significantly reduces the area of application for flying drones. How is that arranged for you?
PS: My previous „drone“ was a Hughes 300 🙂 . My girlfriend is a helicopter pilot (only private, not commercial). If the air traffic controllers have a good day, you can also fly through various air traffic control zones, such as major airports, urban areas, etc. This can be very exciting.
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Hi Jung,
thanks, here in our region, the Rhine is quite wide. It flows a little further through the Netherlands, branches out there and then flows into the North Sea. The sections popular with tourists (e.g. Canadians who would like to see Austria and Germany 🙂 ) can be found in the so-called Middle Rhine region. Where the vineyards nestle close to the course of the river and numerous old castles and fortifications guard the course of the river (Bingen/Rüdesheim/Lorely). There are very beautiful, small towns that exude a medieval charm with their half-timbered houses and narrow streets. And the birthplace of Beethoven, Bonn, is of course also located on the Rhine. There you can visit the so-called Beethoven House: a Memorial and Museum (The photos below show Beethoven’s birth house, his birth room and Beethoven’s last grand piano „Hammerflügel“).
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Yeah, singing „Oh Tannenbaum“, hard stuff Daryl :-). Did you learn German during your schooltime, or why was this song chosen for the Christmas performance? Mark Twain, who is said to have spoken German well, was not particularly enthusiastic about the German language. He humorously suggested that a talented person could learn English in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. I have to contradict him: it only took me twenty years…
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This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Jürgen Bereit.
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