Family trips

Normally we do not do any such trips since my brother and I do not leave with my parents for vacation anymore. But since they took a few weeks off without going anywhere this year and me waiting for my studies to begin (and even my brother who is usually either dancing or hanging out somewhere with his friends every day has now some time, due to summer holidays) we visited the monastery at Maulbronn, near Pforzheim, last Saturday. It looked like the monastery that is part of the school I was going to, but much bigger and more impressive.

Today, we visited an old silber mine located in the Black Forest. I didn't expect it to be that dirty. We had to wear boots, some kind of jacket and a helmet. One really looked like a real miner in this dress. However, I am way too tall for a miner since I always had to bend down when entering a gallery (well, I am only 1.83m, so most had to. Now I know why they often took children for helping out in the mines).

When we saw this lorry (which was, by the way, only decoration; it was too big for the small galleries in the mine) I immediately thought at that clonk loader on which a clonk is pushing a lorry full of gold. The result of my not-so-great image-manipulating skills is that picture on the right. If you zoom out a bit, you do not see the rough edges around the clonk...