Bakar Beer Poster

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I found this beer brand poster in a window in Bakar, Croatia. The bar behind it was as empty as this poster is weathered.

Meanwhile I am fiddling with the domain name system for my new web presence. What is easy and straightforward when you order domain and web presence in one shot can become at least a bit demanding when you distribute those parts on different companies. At the moment I keep my fingers crossed that by tomorrow the DNS will know about that 'markus-spring.info' domain and point to the correct server.

Update: http://markus-spring.info is now working. I have added another gallery to the 'peoples' category. Now I have to fix the rss links.

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brewery window, dachau

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my stroll round dachau palace also led me to the brewery. the proximity to the palace itself is stunning, especially given the olfactoric annoyance a brewery can create. it seems though that the former rulers were not that sensible regarding smells.

the brewery is now in a quite derelict state, not used any more. here in bavaria the structure of the beer business has completely changed in the last 3 decades, pretty much all the beer is produced by large companies. wherever there is still local beer, people do like it very much, but only some of them are willing to pay a higher price for it. and economies of scale of course work in favour of the big ones, selling "aktienblempel". the latter is a colloquial term for low quality beer with a high return on interest, "aktie" being the german word for share.

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copper delight

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one of the best sources for beer in munich actually is outside of munich: freising not only hosts the oldest brewery of the world, but for sure one of the smallest. the 'airbräu' inn at the airport of munich brews the beer in front of all guests in the bar parlor. the beer is convincing, the optical impression of the fittings even more.

reason enough to start my journey with a visit of the airbräu - no beer also, as it was early morning - and then let the etihad plane bring me to abu dhabi. no beer there, just too tired and not wanting to miss the connecting flight.

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bavaria, as icon

if i would need to capture all of bavaria in on picture, that might come close: costume, music, beer, reflection helping to view the world not as it is...

bavaria is really special. a (in its majority) rural country thrown in the 21st century, still believing in conservative doctrines.

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