Day: August 6, 2025

I spotted this fellow just off the side of the road near Neuf-Briesach, probably looking for a warm juicy mouse or — failing that — at least a nice big bug.

This is an artistic a snap as I thought I could take of a big statute. There is a big, open plaza in Strasbourg — called Place de Kléber — and it has a big statute you can see here, of General Kléber. Believe it or not, he is also buried here on this spot, probably underneath the statute. He fought as heroically as a general can fight in Napolean’s crusade in Egypt, until he was stabbed to death by a student. I find it interesting that such people were enshrined like this. Today, probably zillions of people pass by this statute every day and I wonder if any of them really know who he is — which means there was previously great interest in honoring them, and today they are largely ignored.