A Postcard A Day - Friday 21 February 2025 - Friday Smiles

 

Hello lovely peeps,

It's Friday again, the end of the week, and I'm thinking back over the week and remembering the smiles. There have been many. Problem is, I just forget to take pictures.

Let me show you my postcard:

Sent by Diana from Washington state in the USA. She tells me Germany is her home country and that visiting Wartburg is like a trip back in time.

Wikipedia writes: The Wartburg is a castle originally built in the Middle Ages. It is situated on a precipice of 410 metres (1,350 ft) to the southwest of and overlooking the town of Eisenach, in the state of Thuringia, Germany.

Wartburg is the most visited tourist attraction in Thuringia after Weimar. Although the castle today still contains substantial original structures from the 12th through 15th centuries, much of the interior dates back only to the 19th century. In 1999, Wartburg Castle was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List because of its quintessential medieval architecture and its historical and religious significance.

The Luther Room

From May 1521 to March 1522, Martin Luther stayed at the castle under the name of Junker Jörg (the Knight George), after he had been taken there for his safety at the request of Frederick the Wise following his excommunication by Pope Leo X and his refusal to recant at the Diet of Worms. It was during this period that Luther translated the New Testament from ancient Greek into German in just ten weeks. Luther's was not the first German translation of the Bible but it quickly became the most well known and most widely circulated.

The stamp is a dahlia (I think). I love those round stamps.

Nothing much has been happening here.  Friday was a lovely day. I call it an I-Love-Lisca-Day! Must have one of those every now and then.

I went to Pilates in the morning, then I had a lovely upper body/lower back massage. Bliss! After that a short walk to the Japanese take-away to get a poke bowl for my lunch.

The weather was nice and in the afternoon I sat out on the terrace in the sunshine and read my book.

All in all a super day (but no photos).

On MondayS I go to the local gym. This time I remembered to take a picture:

We are about 20 ladies over 65. For these ladies the gym is a great social occasion and there is much chatting and laughter. I was on the treadmill taking the photo. There are 5 treadmills, four crosswalkers and several bicycles and a few other things. We do a few minutes on each machine. The teacher calls out the changes so that we all get to do each machine.

Yesterday I was in the local book shop as that is where I collect my Amazon deliveries. I saw an interesting book . It's about world history. 

I'm a bit of a history buff and this book was a cartoon version of world history. 

Really well done. I bought it there and then. (couldn't resist it). Above is about China (post WWII) and below one of the pages about the French Revolution:

I'm not taking it with me on holiday, so I will have that to look forward when I come back.

That is all for today. 

Enjoy your weekend, and keep smiling!

Lisca

As per usual I'm sharing some funnies below:

BTW, the other languages are not French and German, but something funny that sounds like it.

My new Apple watch