Mountains rich with slate...
Houses half wood, half slate...
The charming, roaring river running through it...
Street scenes...
Schmuck here means Jewelry.
A street person performing for euros...wait, who is that guy?!!
On the way back to Aachen we pass an area that gets bitingly cold and windy, and so the residents build hedges around their properties for some protection, with holes cut out for driveways, walkways, and windows. It's clever but strange.
Then we pass the strangest sight of all...the 'Westwall' as it was called, also known as 'Dragon Teeth.' It's a snaking line of stone pyramid-like structures built for the German defense before the war to protect against tanks and military trucks getting through except at check points. They are so curious looking, possibly some kind of crazy art mixed into a natural setting, and at the same time so angry and forboding, in fact like monsters emerging out of the earth. You get a very strange feeling when you see it as you drive along in the countryside, then it disappears, and then it appears again...it continues for many kilometers.
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