Monat: September 2026

To Rome I Must Go

Well, and so it turns out that the next stop for my film is … Rome!!
And this is how it happened: Lüneburg and the Lüneburg Heath provided me with lots of great images, information, Melusines … but not really any clue as to where to go next.
Until I went to the outdoor swimming pool. A wonderful natural swimming pool (“Aquadies”) – it was open for its last day and the weather was still summery. Only the water was freezing cold, 18° … but never mind!

And what did I find in the pool shop? A Melusine ring! A mood ring complete with an explanation for just €4.50! I bought it straight away … and my first mood is deep blue. That means “romantic”. I’m not feeling particularly romantic, but where does the word come from? From Rome! So I have to go to Rome!

The photo I took the day before, with the ‘Weg / path’ signs, also points to this, because many roads lead to Rome!

And then I also like to read everything backwards, which gives me ‘Mor’ – suggesting the moor, but also ‘mother’ (Swedish) and ‘death’ (from the Latin prefix mor-). Also the name of the swimming pool means “Water Days” or “Days of Water”!! Which leads me somehow again to Melusine who I threw into the Atlantic … And more … la mère … la mer … the dead moor …
I think I’ve got a bucketful of inspiration!

Moon and Heather

And on we go with my scavenger hunt film: after France in July, it’s on to Lüneburg and the heather in September.
Melusine turns up in Lüneburg too, but actually I think this trail has come to an end – when I threw the Melusine shells into the Atlantic …

In Lüneburg, the theme is … well, I’m not quite sure yet; in the market square, there’s an Artemis fountain (goddess of the hunt, guardian of animals and of girls both young and old). She wears a crescent moon on her head; Lüneburg’s Roman name was Lunaburgum, but actually the name doesn’t come from Luna (= moon) but from the Old Saxon word Hluni (= refuge, protection).

Now I’m in the Lüneburg Heather, a vast area of heatherland that formed hundreds of years ago when all forests were chopped down to provide wood for salt boiling. There was plenty of salt beneath the town; salt made Lüneburg rich – it was used, amongst other things, to salt Scandinavian herring.
What am I to make of all these stories? Wait and check and see …
And yes, some pinhole photos too …

Archipelago Islands

There’s a whole host of archipelago islands off the coast of Gothenburg. Every island name ends in -ö, which simply means ‘island’! Like Vrångö, Styrsö, Brännö, Hönö …
You just take the tram there and then the ferries; it’s all covered by one ticket (I had a 3-day ticket for about € 25 …) … Unfortunately, it was all rather grey that day, with a steady drizzle, so I travelled to Brännö for half an hour, enjoyed the sight of the deserted granite cliffs, and then headed straight back. It must be absolutely lovely in the height of summer!