My Daily Banana:
Event of the
day:
31st May 1969
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono recorded Give Peace a Chance
The start of the
end of the Beatles
Birthday of the
Day:
31st
May 1930
Clint Eastwood
Hard man actor,
director and former mayor of his adopted hometown Carmel-by-the-Sea,
California.
I do not agree with his political thoughts, he represents the war mongers the Republicains.
As an actor I
found him good playing the rough, tough cowboy in films such as The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly. He also gained fame as the detective Harry Callahan in the
film Dirty Harry
His best film as
a director was Million Dollar Baby, a film about female boxer. The film won him
an Academy Award for the Best Director. The film itself won another three
Oscars Best Picture, Best Atress (Hilary Swank) and Best Supporting Actor
(Morgan Freeman)
Died on this Day:
31 st May 1996
Timothy Leary
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| Timothy being arrested, it happened twenty-nine times |
An American psychologist
and author most known for his experiments with psychedelic drugs, the God of
LSD. His catch phrase was “Turn on, tune in, drop out”
In John and Yoko’s
song Give Peace a Chance Timothy Leary is mentioned in one of the verses
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| Timothy & Rosemary Leary, John Lennon & Yoko Ono (John I miss you) |
Ev'rybody's
talkin' 'bout
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Cycle ride of
the day:
On my round
today I stopped at a house called Blocksberg.
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| My bicyle, as you can see I'm always on my Cannondale, it's easy to ride and I don't have to wear my racing shoes, they're uncomfortable. |
Until now it was
a house with a nice name that brought back memories: When my children were
small we used to read to them from a series of booklets about the adventures of
Bibi Blocksberg. She is a little girl who plays practical jokes with the help
of magic. Every time I rode past it I told Heike I’d biked past Bibi on my
tour.
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| The rail stataion and now guest house |
The house as you
can imagine has nothing to do with her. Blocksberg was built as a rail station
when the tracks were laid in 1895. They were built to increase the popularity
of the islands Föhr and Amrum, the islands have always lived in the shadow of
the holiday island Sylt. Traveling time to Föhr or Amrum was shortened by an
hour, it was much more comfortable than traveling from Niebüll to Dagebüll with
the stagecoach and more passengers could be transported at one time.
In 1905 a dairy
for the farms of the area (the Kooge) was built. The dairy products could be
distributed faster to the nearby towns and coal could be transported to fire
the steam engines with the train. In 1929 the dairy closed down.
In 1926 the
narrow-gauge-tracks were replaced with normal-tracks, from then on the trains
from Hamburg could travel direct to Dagebüll without the passengers having to
change trains. The station Blocksberg closed down in 1992 and from then on is a
guest house.
Greetings to Siggi and wife :-)
The rail line from Niebüll to Dagebüll is still running, I've never been on the train, that's one of the todoes on my bucket list.
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| West of Blocksberg |
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| North of Blocksberg |
Bye, see you all
tomorrow. Have a good day
