When I look up over the screen of my computer at home I can see the Haut-Koenigsbourg castle. But yesterday, I didn’t. It was snowing. At dusk, I left my keyboard and once more, I went up to the mountain facing my window … See my pictures and read more … In the early 1900’s…
Category: History
WW1 in Alsace and Vosges – Secret search for sled dogs : Code name «Poilus d’Alaska»
December 15, 1915 – 436 valiant sled dogs « Poilus d’Alaska » (The “Hairy” from Alaska ; “Poilu” was the nickname of the French soldiers of WW1), arrived in the Vosges mountains …
WW1 – 100 years ago in the Vosges mountains …
Today is Nov 11, 2015. A bright sun is shining and the sky is absolutely blue over Alsace and the Vosges mountains that I see from my window. Difficult to imagine what a nightmare was going on 100 years ago not far from here. Today is Armistice Day (which coincides with Remembrance Day and Veterans…
Haut-Koenigsbourg castle: a 900 years long history …
When I was a kid, we went to the castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg with our school. It was always a romantic and magical day out that struck our minds of children. For several years since, the castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg is at my window. And it is still magical … Of course, for almost a millennium, it…