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Radolfzell am Bodensee

  • By Dominique Hoffmann
  • 19 Jul, 2022

little town on Lake Constance, Germany -                                             Petite ville au bord du lac de Constance

Radolfzell am Bodensee is a town in Germany at the western end of Lake Constance approximately 18 km northwest of Konstanz. It is the third largest town, after Constance and Singen, in the district of Konstanz, in Baden-Württemberg

I used  to live in Radolfzell am Bodensee betwen 1984 and 1989.  I used to come there on my holidays  since I was a small girl as my grandparents have lived there all their lives and my mother was born there.  The cocker spaniel in the picture is called Sandra
Radolfzell am Bodensee est une ville en Allemagne à l’extrémité ouest du lac de Constance environ 18 km au nord-ouest de Constance. C’est la troisième plus grande ville, après Constance et Singen, dans le district de Constance, dans le Bade-Wurtemberg

J'ai vécu à Radolfzell am Bodensee entre 1984 et 1989. Je venais là-bas pendant mes vacances depuis que j’étais petite, car mes grands-parents y ont vécu toute leur vie et ma mère y est née. Le cocker sur la photo s’appelle Sandra
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Ce mois de juillet, j'ai lu plusieurs livres en français et en anglais.  Et voici mes chroniques: 

en français
Vol en piqué - Sabrina Kiefner 
Vendre son livre sur Amazon - Fabien Dedieu 
Coumba, te voilà femme - Christiane Schmits 

This July, I read several books in English: 
Jessup - Steven Ainley 
Sell your book on Amazon - Fabien Dedieu.

Voici mes chroniques. 



Tout d'abord : Vol en Piqué" de Sabrina Kiefner - roman historique - 
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2368687840

disponible sur Amazon  et sur commande en librairie  "
  https://www.amazon.fr/Vol-en-piqu%C3%A9-Sabrina-Kiefner/dp/236868784X/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1T7D45WVC3UOM&keywords=Sabrina+Kiefner+Vol+en+Piqu%C3%A9&qid=1659286306&s=books&sprefix=sabrina+kiefner+vol+en+piqu%C3%A9%2Cstripbooks%2C365&sr=1-1
By Dominique Hoffmann 21 Jul, 2022
In May 1987, when I was still working with a anglo-German truck company, a driver took me to London and there I found myself  exploring, testing my knowledge of English.  Shortly afterwards, I jotted some notes about my trip and used them later for my novel : Souvenir of Germany.  My protagonist Tatiana Arnold takes exactly the same trip, albeit in December 1986 and this is what she sees in London: 

Friday the 19th,   while Tatiana was having breakfast the next morning,  - toast, orange marmalade and black tea, it was very cold outside. Despite the winter showers, she had planned to explore the Sherlock Holmes Museum after visiting HMV on Oxford Street, the world’s largest record store. All her favourites were there: Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, America, Ralph McTell, Gerry Rafferty. She bought a CD with Gerry Rafferty’s singles "Baker Street" and Ralph McTell’s "Streets of London" as well as a CD of Christmas carols. She told herself that she had made a very good choice and was eager to listen to her music on her CD player at home. For lunch she went to the Selfridges Café and ordered a quiche and a melon and sweet-corn salad. ...

Then she explored Baker Street - that’s where the legendary fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived. She was a fan and never missed any episode of the TV show with Jeremy Brett. To her great disappointment, only an oval sign paid tribute to Sherlock Holmes because in 221b there was an administrative building. The staff of the eponymous hotel informed him that in the past there had been a museum but that it had closed due to bankruptcy two years earlier.

a new privately run  Sherlock Holmes museum  opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street and bears  the number 221B by permission of the City of Westminister although it lies between numbers 237 and 241, near the north end of Baker Street in central London close to Regent Park. Of course I visited that one as well, but that's another story.

Souvenir of Germany - Chapter 11
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