She is thirty feet high and weighs 36 thousand pounds and every inch of her voluptuous and barely-concealed anatomy is alluring – except perhaps for the two naked and wizened old men who sit in the palms of each of her upraised hands, one a pope the other an emperor. The statute of the courtesan Imperia by German artist Peter Lenk is not just the most “photographed attraction” in the lakeside resort town of Constance (Konstanz in German) in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, it is the only public sculpture to so conspicuously memorialize a prostitute. Revolving at a rate of once every three minutes to display… Read More…
Without a doubt, the towns of Sommerhausen and Winterhausen are adorable year round, composed as they are of centuries-old buildings and cobblestone streets and nestled in a valley below mountainsides draped in grapevines. In English, these twin towns mean Summer house and Winter house. It was autumn when I visited. In my house, that’s the best season of all. Sommerhausen and Winterhausen are two of a string of similarly attractive villages lining the Main River in Germany’s Franconia region, making a wine trail of sorts that is popular with Germans but generally unknown outside of the country. There is no Sommerhausen/Winterhausen Facebook page, no Foursquare… Read More…