Even though I’m in Peru now, I sometimes miss my hometown San Antonio, TX (minus the politics of course). Hands down there is the best Tex-Mex and my Dad’s garden.
What is special about your hometown?
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There’s an old joke about people born in Phoenix: “You do not associate bridges or rivers with water.”
Oh no, sounds similarly dry to where I live, as any water falling from the sky is suspicious and probably not rain.
Ohlstadt (in Bavaria, Germany) is famous for being the hometown of a bunch of Rodel champions (imagine sledding but on the intensity of downhill biking). It’s also a time capsule of “stereotypical Alpine village”. I was there last September for my wedding and it’s almost exactly the same as it was twenty years ago when my parents and I moved away from there. I’m not joking when I say that some of the potholes my bike and feet got caught on as a child were still there (and those are right next to the main road, not some hidden-away place)
Different from bobsledding it looks like! Wow it would be nice if the muni fixed the potholes as winter weather can take its toll on roads. Regardless, it looks beautiful!
Mhmm! I can’t fault the village, though. I don’t know what their finances look like but I can imagine they’re just getting by exactly because there are little to no “modern” things popping up. The newest visible addition was a supermarket (think Aldi, not WalMart) relatively far outside the village center. I wouldn’t be surprised if the council/mayor purposely keeps big investors like this out. The advantage: It keeps its “German rural village” charme and aesthetic over literal decades Disadvantage: Probably little money to fix anything but the most pressing issues.
