I've been in Karlsruhe for some time now. I had the time to take some pictures in the inner city: clean, nice, a blend of old and new, your typical west-german city. But what I found interesting about Karlsruhe is the edge of the city, near the place I'm staying. It's a quiet area and I guess this is how your typical suburb looks like in this country: small to average sized houses, nicely painted, combining into a colorful painting. Ok, so maybe it's not like that everyday, but that is what it was like this weekend.
So, the area looks nice; no news there, right? I mean, who wouldn't expect that? But here's something that I really did not expect... I went walking... (I guess for about 5 Km) alongside a water stream and after passing by a cemetery, which still looks like being in the city, and after 1 Km or so, I was basically in the countryside. Corn was growing on the side of the road, people were not just out jogging and biking but also riding horses. Well... the evidence for that could have been a picture of manure, but I thought I should skip that. Still, you were reminded you were not exactly in the countryside by the highways crossing high above the ground. You couldn't see any cars, but you could most definitely hear them.
What made my day though was finding what looked to be an ex-orchard. It had apples, some just recently fallen. I had an apple, wasn't poisonous or anything... though it had some vermin on one side. And I remembered that there is a difference in taste between the stuff you get at the supermarket and the stuff that grows by itself in real life. Either that or maybe I was just hungry, but man, that apple was really good.
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