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InContinent: A Quick Drive to Osnabrück

 

InContinent – Dispatches from Europe:  

A quick drive to Osnabrück 

 

For undisclosed reasons, I had the opportunity to drive up to the city of Osnabrück, way up north. But just for a few hours. 

 

The drive up was lovely. Much of what you can see from the Autobahns and Bundesstraßes* is green and clean. We lucked out, very little traffic, minimal truck convoys, etc. We drove as fast as 120mph according to my GPS. 

 

My friend I drove with had to take care of some business, so I walked around with my camera. I’d be remiss in not making snarky jokes about leaky skies and liquids coming and going where they don’t belong. Well I guess what I’m trying to say is it was pouring at times. 

 

That was enough to get me to go into several churches for cover from the leaky skies.  

 

Not too much to report here, just wanted to throw a few photos up and pretend I’m doing something productive. 

 

*If Germans are going to fuck up Englisch with their taking our words and germanizing the verb structure etc, I’m gonna butcher their plurals like here with Bundesstraße

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