Category: By Country
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City Center Berchtesgarden
This bench can be found in front of the city hall in Berchtesgarden. Quite comfortable with the “build-in” table.
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Fortezza de’ Cortesi
The location where we stayed in Tuscany for a week was called Fortezza de’ Cortesi, near San Gimignano. A special place and a remarkable landlady. A former actress from Milano, who has a couple of passions. One is the Fortezza, which she rebuild with her husband, the other is the theater (she is organizing some…
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The D’Almeida Brothers
This is a story only benches can tell. But first I have to admit that this is the second Tuscany exception of having people on the bench post. However, with this bench it is all about that, it is about people sitting on the bench and get connected. So, here it goes: I was visiting Radda…
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Benchers in Siena
It is an exception. Usually we do not post benches with people on it (just about personal rights). However, if you walk by a bench a 100 times and you never find it empty, and you probably walk by another 1000 times and it will never be without people. Finally, you have to take this…
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A red hot gem “Looking Good”
The Hortpark in Singapore feels great with benches all around. Parents can sit down and chat while their children are playing. Today a solid, good looking red bench reaches my eyes. It was made of steel and painted in a red color. This fit well to the green surrounding. The bench was not placed in…
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Somewhere in The “Allgäuer” Alps.
The “Allgäu” is one of the most beautiful areas in Germany. The Allgäu Alps (German: Allgäuer Alpen) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, located in Bavaria in Germany and Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The range lies directly east of Lake Constance. Some Germans can afford to own a little summer residence…
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Salzburg City
I have been in Salzburg now for a couple of times. Last time it was about a year back together with my brother and his son. At that time we have not been benchers yet, it was shortly before initiating the benchmark page. This is exactly the same bench (the left one) where my brother and his…
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The 5 Empress
I don’t know what struck me to come out with the name for those 5 benches. Yet if you could see what I can see then you would observe that royal pride on the faces of those 5 benches. I guess, now you want to ask me, where are the faces of those 5 benches.…
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Sungei Ulu Pandan
Recently I have been riding a few times along Sungei Ulu Pandan. By the way “Sungei” is the Malay word for river. Sungei Ulu Pandan is a river in the west of Singapore. Rivers in Singapore are actually all man made canals. Even the Singapore River is a canal. On hot afternoons one can be…
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World Heritage Hallstatt
Hallstatt is world-famous … since the bronze age, when our ancestors found super-sized caves and salt in the mountains around the Hallstatt Lake. Also today you can enjoy the view of the gorgeous area, sitting in the small niche shown above. I recommend a visit 🙂
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Breckenridge dedications
As hoped and expected Annette provided two other benches from Colorado 😉 The first one is from Breckenridge, which is an old gold mining city within the ski arena of Vail. I guess todays gold is the snow. The bench is dedicated to Michael Thomas Davidson. The second bench is also a dedication bench, dedicated to Ben Clark. A quite…
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Colorado, Vail – Korst Family
We crossed the Atlantic. Seems my talk in the office about benches was fruitful. Annette, one of my colleagues is currently in Colorado, Vail on vacation. And she donated a dedication bench to this blog. I am still curious about the view from that bench. I could not yet find anything about the Korst Family…
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Cochem Mosel
We got a new bencher on board. Welcome Mike. Mike has sent this nice roundabout bench. The tree in the middle is giving the back rest for all sitting on the bench. The bench is located in a wild garden above the beautiful city Cochem at the river Mosel. Cochem is known for its Castle and…
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Benches behind bushes and in the woods
Finally we got the story around the beautiful benches, which I posted some time ago. An american lady, Wilhelmina Busch born in 1887, widowed three men in her live. Two Germans and one American ( Mr. Woods). This lady, living her adult live in Germany was crazy about the idea of owning a castle. She…
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Helmut 2008
A walk in the park on a sunny Sunday afternoon. We were taking the tour from St. Emmerams Mill to Schwabing crossing the northern part of the English Garden in Munich. Beautiful weather, sunshine, 28 C. When we wanted to enjoy a bit the park life and rest on a bench we picked one accidently. Well, as…
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Cathedral and benches
When we stayed in Palma de Mallorca the walk from our hotel to the old town passed by the cathedral. A very impressive building overarching the old town and very well visible from the sea side. Just a couple of meters outside of our hotel we crossed the first benches on a place with palm trees and…
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Palma Boulevard
During Easter we visited for the first time Mallorca. This “German” island of the Spanish Baleares. And indeed, there is a reason why so many people go there for a vacation or even become a permanent resident. We stayed in Palma de Mallorca, the capital of the island. A beautiful city, old buildings, small streets…
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Isar Benches
Isar Views The biggest river flowing through Munich is the Isar. The Isar might have been the reason Munich is existing at all. The Isar is doing to Munich what the Seine does to Paris. Near the German Museum the river is flowing strong and deep and not so accessible than in other areas. It…
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Dukes fish farm benches
There is another great place in the Bavarian Alps which is called Wildbad Kreuth. As the name indicates it was originally a Spa. Pretty famous in its best times. Build by Maximilian I. King of Bavaria, visited by Emperors and Russian Tsars, today owned by the Dukes of Bavaria. Close to this place there is the Dukes…
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A view on Lake Spitzing
How can you deeply enjoy a view at nature, if there is no bench around, to rest and look and watch without being disturbed by the discomfort of standing along the shore. As you may have assumed, this is a very traditional bench, which allows us to sit and rest and look over the shores…