Käse

For this week's edition of "let's try some weird foreign cheese and see if we like it," the cheese is Cambozola from Käserei Champignon. This is a German product, from Bavaria. It's a soft creamy cheese with some blue veining, something of a combination of Camembert and Gorgonzola, with mild flavor. I like it a lot.

Schwarze Pumpe

The Discovery Channel's "How do they Do it?" featured a segment on the famous bucket wheel excavators mining lignite in Germany, specifically the mines near the Schwarze Pumpe power plant in eastern Germany. I happen to know that there are nice models of the excavators in the Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum, the German mining museum in Bochum.

It turns out the Google Earth images are good enough to show the excavators in the mines and the power plant.

Some google maps links:
north mine
south mine
plant