{"id":1460,"date":"2015-08-28T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T20:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1460"},"modified":"2015-08-28T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T20:50:00","slug":"week-36-lansdale-philly-washington-amish-country","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1460","title":{"rendered":"Week 36: Lansdale, Philly, Washington, Amish country"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent the week in Pennsylvania with our son, enjoying the good weather and the big city as well as the small towns. We did make a day trip to Washington, though.<\/p>\n

36_1<\/strong>
\nEveryone who has visited the US knows that the flag is everywhere. I present three examples here. The first is from the apartment complex in Lansdale where my son lives:
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36_2<\/strong>
\nA more upscale Lansdale home:
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36_3<\/strong>
\nAnd in South Philadelphia:
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36_4<\/strong>
\nWe drove down to Washington for a day, mainly to visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Air and Space Museum. It was my son’s idea to take my father WW2 victory medal and pose with it in the Remembrance Hall of the Holocaust museum:
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36_5<\/strong>
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36_6<\/strong>
\nThe front of the medal, with the Polish eagle:
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36_7<\/strong>
\nThe back of the medal. The inscription reads “The Polish Republic-Victory and Freedom–9 May 1945”:
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36_8<\/strong>
\nWe moved on to the Air and Space Museum:
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36_9<\/strong>
\nAnd then on to the memorials, starting with the Vietnam Memorial:
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36_10<\/strong>
\nThe Lincoln Memorial, with a plane coming in to land at Reagan airport:
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36_11<\/strong>
\nInside the Lincoln Memorial:
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36_12<\/strong>
\nThe White House, not very accessible:
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More images from Washington can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next several images are from the lovely small town Doylestown, a few miles from Lansdale.<\/p>\n

36_13<\/strong>
\nDoylestown boasts many interesting shops, among them a very well-stocked comics book store:
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36_14<\/strong>
\nAnother typical Doylestown shop:
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36_15<\/strong>
\nAnother day we spotted some positive messages someone had been leaving around the town:
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36_16<\/strong>
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36_17<\/strong>
\nA fa\u00c3\u00a7ade from the past:
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36_18<\/strong>
\nDoylestown Brewing Company makes some delicious brews:
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Now a few local pictures from Lansdale.<\/p>\n

36_19<\/strong>
\nMy son at the wheel of his Mustang:
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36_20<\/strong>
\nThe groundskeeper’s little tractor at the Lansdale apartment complex:
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36_21<\/strong>
\nThe beer section of the local Wegmans supermarket. Compared to when we left the US 20 years ago, the beer scene here has exploded:
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36_22<\/strong>
\nThe Smokehouse is a restaurant just a few minutes walk from Moses’s apartment:
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36_23<\/strong>
\nTheir Buffalo wings were very good, although the “suicide” version I ordered was a misnomer; by Buffalo standards these were “medium”:
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36_24<\/strong>
\nOne evening we went to see the Phillies against the Blue Jays. We enjoyed the experience, although we left after the 7th inning when it was clear that the Phillies were not going to come back from behind, training 8-5. They didn’t:
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36_25<\/strong>
\nAnother day I went to South Philadelphia with my daughter to visit a piercing shop where she wanted to have some adjustments done. Already walking from the parking to the shop, I could see that this was an interesting neighbourhood:
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36_26<\/strong>
\nThe neighbourhood is full of interesting signs and shop fronts:
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36_27<\/strong>
\nEven the traffic islands can be interesting. Note the hipster type walking down the street, a typical inhabitant of this part of the city:
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36_28<\/strong>
\nTatoo parlour:
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36_29<\/strong>
\nThe Pope is coming to visit Philaldephia in September. The merchants are ready:
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36_30<\/strong>
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36_31<\/strong>
\nThis is a wonderful little side street called Kater Street. I turned into this street and was met by a world of wonderful murals:
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36_32<\/strong>
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36_33<\/strong>
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36_34<\/strong>
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36_35<\/strong>
\nThere was also some kind of Buddhist temple:
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36_36<\/strong>
\nBut most striking were the mosaics:
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36_37<\/strong>
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36_38<\/strong>
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36_39<\/strong>
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36_40<\/strong>
\nAt some point, this guy came out from one of the houses, and we had a brief chat. He told me that most of the mosaics I had just photographed were made by his father:
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36_41<\/strong>
\nI continued to wander through the neighbourhood, marvelling at the creativity expressed in the signs and street art:
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36_42<\/strong>
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36_43<\/strong>
\nFire station:
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36_44<\/strong>
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36_45<\/strong>
\nDon’t smoke!:
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36_46<\/strong>
\nWe then went north, to the area around City Hall and the Temple University Center City campus, where I took my MBA classes back in 1991-93. This is a completely different Philadelphia:
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36_47<\/strong>
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36_48<\/strong>
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36_49<\/strong>
\nI loved this sculpture by Claes Oldenburg:
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36_50<\/strong>
\nUrban fauna:
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The final few images are from a Saturday drive to Amish country.<\/p>\n

36_51<\/strong>
\nWe drove to Intercourse, supposedly the main Amish town in Lancaster county. Unsurprisingly, the town sign gets stolen from time to time:
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36_52<\/strong>
\nI found Intercourse a bit too Disneyfied. Clearly, the main business is to sell stuff to the tourists:
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36_53<\/strong>
\nThese do not look like Amish handycrafts:
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36_54<\/strong>
\nNothing for my vegan daughter in this shop:
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36_55<\/strong>
\nThe buggies are used for individual transport, but also to give tours to visitors:
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36_56<\/strong>
\nThat is what the landscape around Intercourse looks like:
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36_57<\/strong>
\nThe most traditional among the Amish do not use electricity, so clotheslines are a more common sight than elsewhere in rural America:
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36_58<\/strong>
\nMailboxes at the roadside:
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