cyclists pass under bridges

That was the aim today, to go for a walk early. This did not happen, so the walk started at nine in the morning. The town is still not too hot, pass through the old graveyard of the church and continue through the arcades. Stop there to tie shoe laces, which came loose on their own. Look up and see that there is a young girl in a pink dress sitting at a small blue tin table, sorting some brightly coloured toys. She has fair hair. She looks up, and then continues whatever she is doing. It is rather surrealistic, there under the arcades. She is wearing a frilly dress, a doll would be clothed the same way.

The post office to the left, then the statue to Ludwig der Reiche on its pedestal upon the site of the synagogue. Towards the end of the middle ages, this man persecuted and robbed the Jews in Landshut and used the money to pay for the wedding between a local prince and a Polish princess. It was a very large party, the whole town was drunk for a week. It was all politics, it signified the end of a long and bitter war. This wedding is celebrated every four years, a commercial pageant known as the Landshuter Hochzeit.

The long steep path to the castle, take it slowly and steadily. It is very steep. Walk past the huge building, still gleaming from its recent renovation, and enter the park.

Meet a friend there, an old man of some eighty five years. He is a very fit old man, he is very active and goes on long walks. Chat with him about cameras, the German rangefinder has been his passion for many many years. 

As the path leads on through the mulberry garden there is the sound of an ambulance in a hurry nearby. See later that it is parked in front of the children's hospital with all of its doors open. This reminds of the time years ago when the son broke his arm and was taken to the same hospital.

The path leads on to a café, where a woman serving the coffee shouts at all the customers. She does not appear to realise that she is shouting. Order coffee and a small roll, take it outside. Outside is very hot and people are smoking. The smoke blows into the eyes, instead of rising vertically from the table. Get up and go back inside, it is better to be shouted at than smoked.

Notice that all of the new guests are queuing up at the other end of the counter, a soft-spoken person works there. She yells at them to come over and be served by her. She seems to run the place, but she does not make it more pleasant.

Follow the river home, take a picture of a cyclist passing under a bridge.

It is online now, for the world to look at and see that cyclists pass under bridges in Landshut.