Category Archives: Speyer

A short little palimpsest of Speyer

Ever since I saw and became obsessed with the work of the German conceptual artist, Anselm Kiefer, I’ve wanted to see – and walk – and, inevitably, photograph, haphazardly, some of the rhineland landscapes that appear to have influenced his … Continue reading

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Rolling on a – wrong – river. To Speyer, Spira as was

Another Heidelberg philosphe weg, my fourth, down to the new bridge, past the Irish bar that Angela said was good, but I don’t do Irish bars unless they are in Ireland. Then a joyous pilgrimage down the Neckar river, as … Continue reading

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