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Ludwigshafen? Rhineland-Palatinate??
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Ok. I really need to catch up on my geography.
Those certainly don’t look like no American names. 
I was checking my site-meter stats last night and saw a currently-online user who was located in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Now, I don’t know about you, but my south-eastern US bred eyes did quite the double take at those words.
:::blink::::
So what did I do? Well, in school days, we were taught to look up things on the globe. Pull out a map. And to use the (often dusty) $1000 World Book Encyclopedias.
Pish posh.
All I had to do was talk to my friend…Mr. Google…and I was off on my own worldly travel tour.
Here is what I learned:
Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Ludwigshafen is located on the Rhine opposite Mannheim. Together with Mannheim, Heidelberg and the surrounding region, it forms the Rhine Neckar Area.
Ludwigshafen is known for its chemical industry (BASF). Among its cultural facilities rank the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Ludwigshafen is the birthplace of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, the philosopher Ernst Bloch and the German rock-climber Wolfgang Güllich.
One of the most annoying faults of Ludwigshafen –at least for many of the city’s inhabitants- is its comparative lack of high-quality shopping possibilities. It has been attempted to repair this deficiency by creating a second large shopping mall on the southern tip of the city centre (the Walzmühle near Berliner Platz) with affiliated railway station (Ludwigshafen-Mitte) - but it didn’t turn out as planned. Hopes are now pinned on the construction of another shopping mall on the banks of the Rhine.
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Population? 163,000
And to think…one of those nice peoples over there in Ludwigshafen was peeking at my toilet.
(Hello out there, who ever you are!)
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