Telephone numbers - #258

€38,000,000
$56,000,000
£27,000,000
¥6,156,000,000
Zimbabwe $34,124,000,000

That's this week's lottery jackpot.

Paid as a lump sum.

Tax free.

Severe silliness

Good neigh-bours - #257

Originally: The stables of the neighbouring Prince Elector's palace, crowned with a massive gold-plated copper stallion* which led to its being called "The Golden Horse Barracks"

Then: Destroyed in world war 2

Then: Rebuilt in the 1960s

Now: The State Museum

* On closer inspection, I think it could be a mare...

Theme Day - Blau/Bleu/Blue - #256

Better late than never...

Tricky getting an image of Chagall's windows in St Stephan's.

Try to take a picture from inside the church and they'll burn you at the stake, call up the Vatican for instant discommunication or carry out an exorcism on the spot.

A curse is the very least you can expect.

Taking a picture from the outside doesn't really do it.

Unless of course you wait until autumn or early winter when the sun drops down far enough to shine in through the windows on the opposite side of the nave and illuminates the windows on THIS side.

Then there's "blaumachen" - "to make blue": take time off work.

Or simply "blau": get pissed