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Monbijoubrücke, Museumsinsel, Fernsehturm, ThatTowerAgain, Berlin, Germany, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday: RTW10, forty-seven

10 years ago, I began an around-the-world (RTW) journey lasting 389 consecutive days, from 24 December 2011 to 15 January 2013 inclusive.

16 November 2012.

For me, this familiar scene says a lot of “home”.

In this southeast view from Berlin’s Monbijou Bridge, lingering autumn fog and mist partly obscures city landmark Fernsehturm (Television Tower) in the background at left. Also visible are the Rotes Rathaus at centre-right and the imposing structure housing the Bode Museum on the Museum Island at right. Railway tracks cross the island, “squeezed” between the Bode Museum and the Pergamon Museum. A bright-red Deutsche Bahn regional train crosses over the Spree river from left to right (east to west) on its way to Friedrichstrasse station and beyond to Central Station.

I made the image on 16 Nov 2012 with a Canon EOS450D (Rebel XSi) and these settings: 1/125-sec, f/8, ISO800, and 42mm focal length (67mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-mIi.

Christmas in July (5 of 14), F-HD

On board Regional Bahn RB15357 – 20 December 2010.

Just days before Christmas, I took a regional train from Frankfurt am Main to Heidelberg. This regional route is slower but scenic, as the train makes stops at many points along the way through what is called the Bergstrasse.

The sign below in Bickenbach for platform 3 indicates the direction (Richtung) and the next major destinations (Mannheim, Heidelberg) for trains that stop at this platform.

In the photograph below, the signage indicates the town where the train has stopped. Lurking behind the white winter snowy fog is the western edge of the Odenwald forest.

Train RB15357 heads south from Frankfurt(Main) Hauptbahnhof, with stops at:

Langen(Hess)
Darmstadt Hbf
Darmstadt Süd
Darmstadt-Eberstadt
Bickenbach(Bergstr)
Hähnlein-Alsbach
Zwingenberg(Bergstr)
Bensheim-Auerbach
Bensheim
Heppenheim(Bergstr)
Laudenbach(Bergstr)
Hemsbach
Weinheim(Bergstr)
Lützelsachsen
Heddesheim/Hirschberg
Ladenburg
Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld
Heidelberg-Pfaffengrund/Wieblingen
and, finally, Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof.

This post is published originally on Fotoeins Fotopress (fotoeins.com).

Christmas in July (4 of 14), F-HD

On board Regional Bahn RB15357 – 20 December 2010.

Just days before Christmas, I took a regional train from Frankfurt am Main to Heidelberg. This regional route is slower but scenic, as the train makes stops at many points along the way through what is called the Bergstrasse.

I made these photographs as the train pulled into Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof (Hbf, main train station) : on board Regional Bahn RB15357, between Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg – 20 December 2010.