Nice aerial views of our village

Our neighbor, Mr. Toepfer, went for a hot-air balloon ride in August. Here are some photos -- and don't forget you can click on them to see them larger.

In this picture, you're looking south towards Switzerland across Lake Constance. We live in Esseratsweiler, or "E-Weiler" as we call it. Makes it sound hi-tech.

Here you are looking south right down our street, with Lake Constance in the background.

This picture is looking west across the village. I've marked the important things. The Dornier factory makes industrial machines to stretch foil and cellophane, but they work quietly, we never hear a thing. It's much more common to hear saws from the various woodworks in the area.

Here's our house! You can see how many trees we have, lots more than most. The Toepfer's cherry tree in front is huge, they gave us about 15 kilos of cherries this summer. At the bottom of the picture you can see the yellow old-folk's home, it's between the 'Landhaus' restaurant and an old silo factory. The tee-intersection in the lower left are the main streets to and through the village.