Since the last entry attracted comments, here are two pictures of the Palast der Republik to confirm the comments.

And can anyone tell me what the not-quite-legible ad in the last picture is for? It says something like ‘Der Beweis, dass auch Männer mehrere Höhepunkte gleichzeitig haben können…’ Of course, I just took it for the atmosphere and didn’t even notice the text.

On Saturday and Sunday courtyards all over Fürth were open to visit. Zonebattler has written about this too, and with luck there will be more pictures there.

Zonebattler
Official brochure

For the time being, here is a panorama of Karolinenstraße 30 (click to enlarge):

and here are the usual denizens of that courtyard, shut indoors because there were so many visitors:

Sign of the times:

This illustrates what I am sometimes afraid of:

At Edeka. I wonder what sex the children were?

The translations into English of French and German decisions and statutes that were on the website of the Institute of Global Law at University College London are now at the Institute for Transnational Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Presumably Professor Basil Markesinis has moved there too.

I see that department also has Inge Markovits, who was one of the few people to write about the East German justice system at the time of reunification.