( … ) On this side of the Rhine, a four-minute ferry ride away, sits Bonn’s psychic opposite: Konigswinter. By legend, it is heathen country, the land of the Nibelungs, the sly dwarf kingdom that bedeviled Siegfried. In fact, it is a place of donkey rides and a plaster dragon, a bar calling itself the Dwarf-Trough and two-man accordian and Hammond organ dance bands that thump out “Besame Mucho“ on Sunday afternoons for the gallants from the town’s wheel factory and the women who sit waiting, fanning themselves with beer coasters. ( … )
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Across the Rhine from Bonn, a legendary world
Nun, manches hat sich – ganz offensichtlich – geändert.
Anderes hat sich – erschreckenderweise – jeglicher Veränderung verweigert … ;o)