I like these little playing pieces in a vintage German space board game. The small hollow clear-tipped rockets remind me of vending machine...

 I was intrigued by the surface instrument on the cover of this old German Board game. The device will be known to fans of Apollo Moon Explo...

 Something spooky happened today. I was having my morning coffee, when I switched off the ever-depressing news and flicked onto Tales from t...

There is an interesting old board  game called Sputnik I saw on a Museum's superb site about German space board games.  I love its plast...

This tinplate treasure looks a bit special. I mean, Javol! By Technofix of West Germany it's a real avionic wonder. The finish and box a...

 This East German rocket truck caught my eye. The rocket has a Spacex-Nova-like look to it and appears to be decorated with the zodiac or co...

 I've always loved board games. It's the box art and contents that do it for me. Not the playing. I get bored! Here's a fantasti...

 I picked these up last year in Germany, old Perry Rhodan comics. Interestingly the cover artists have included Thunderbirds 1 and 3 in the ...

I picked these up last month: plastic trams by German companies Wiking and SIKU. There's something very endearing about these Straßenbah...

Woods y, Just for fun, here are pix of a few German HO scale houses I've decided to take to Goodwill.  I've had them for years, and ...

A little off-piste, a couple of late reflections of our trip to Germany last Autumn. Borrowed from the web, an old still in black and white,...

  Whilst staying in Recklinghausen, Germany, last Autumn, the Missus and me visited a fabulous vintage car show at an old coal mine. Here...