Border shopping

Today is a church holiday for all catholics in Germany."All-Saints-Day". More or less. Some counties with a high catholic population have a church holiday, other counties, like Lower Saxony have an ordinary work day. Bad luck for the catholics here - lucky day for the protestants in catholic counties. Nobody promised life to be fair.

As we live close to the border of catholic Northrhein Westfalia, many Westfalians use this day to go shopping in the protestant neighbour county. Soon the city will be packed with shoppers from across the border. As my working place is not in the city, we don't expect a busy day, although I'd love to sell wines to the shopping tourists.

Have a look of the city. The photos are not brand new, but nature looks almost the same now as in March when I climbed a church tower to take these pictures.