Ex Bibliotheca

The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Tuesday, 11 November 2003

# 4:30 PM (GMT+1)

Got up today and went for a long walk out the east side of Offenburg. It's a small town. You go a couple kilometers and you're in open country. The population is aging: there are lots of churches, graveyards, and doctors, but only a handful of schools. You see lots of old people walking around, but hardly any children. It's also a town with a long history. I walked through one of the graveyards. There were stones with both dates in the 18th century, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were even older ones. Past that graveyard is an odd hexagonal church, and then open fields with scattered houses. (Told you it was a small town.)

On the way back I walked past the Musik- und Kunstschule on Weingartenstraße, and an old quarter now taken over by little artists' shops.