Kassel, home of Volkswagen; which, every few years, likes to put on an art show too!

Our Anuran-friendly lodgings...

















Kassel - nestled in the Hessian hills, a city with much history and charm. But it is a small town and and working city too, and so the excursioneer must be resourceful in finding entertainment and diversion. As luck would have it, our visit coincides with a very special event; every few years the city hosts an art festival, where artists from all over the world may exhibit their paintings and sculptures, and nowadays, photographs, films and even videos qualify as "art" works! We spend a polite hour or two walking around the very busy halls and galleries looking at the exhibits. However, to the eagle eyed observer, there are quite as many weird and wonderful sights outside the galleries as inside!

  Always appetising at any time of the day!

 Oops! We seem to have reached the (our) limits! (Just joking!)

Sending a lexicon out in search of meaning #11

A round-up of the shorter excursions undertaken in Sydney at the beginning of this year. Your excursioneer has been busy of late: covering the big cultural events in continental Europe and revisiting one's roots in The Old Country...

The Lexicon is nestled beneath the heavier duty Meaning Generators along from the Marina. Every inch of this area has been landscaped. Not a meaning-less corner anywhere!

Newcastle is rich with purpose-built Meaning Generators, still created in the original spirit of such an enterprise. "Post Modern" irony has little foot-hold here!

Walking around Newcastle city centre, where the railway has been truncated and will be replaced, we are assured, with a modern, efficient, integrated tramway network. We are assured of many things, as humankind has been throughout its history...

The lexicon takes root and flourishes in such moody corners as these!

Sending a lexicon out in search of meaning (10) Surf's Up!

 By the old sea wall at Newcastle, New South Wales. Sometimes it can be a challenge to maintain a 'pointful' motive when the scenery is so delightful! Nonetheless we plant our lexicon in strategic places, in the hope that it will flourish in the hot sunshine and healthy sea air!

 Nothing if not a working lexicon!

Sending a Lexicon out in search of meaning (9) The Australian Adventure has begun!

 The lexica are positively humming in amongst all that concentrated meaning! Time for a long overdue excursion...

 The Lexicon takes root in Australia! Newcastle NSW, near the town hall...

Sending a Lexicon out in search of meaning (8) Our Final Days in Berlin...

It is appropriate that we leave Berlin and Europe just at the onset of Autumn. We made some short walks around Mitte as well as the neighbourhood of Lichtenberg, which we had called home for the last year and a half..

.

 In the grounds of the world-renowned Hamburger Bahnhof, we leave a little offering...

 A traditional style Meaning-Generator puts up some resistance to our lexicon!

 We are always attracted to nooks and corners - bread and butter for the lexicon...

 classic East Berlin; crumbling walls, old factory buildings, and nature takes over little by little...

 Sometimes the fixtures and fittings of the cityscape become Meaning-Generators of their own accord!