Daniel’s iPhone Photo Blog
Daniel’s iPhone Photo Blog
William Tell
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Last weekend, I got distracted with the release of Snow Leopard and our Sunday brunch, while yesterday, I simply had to use the sunrise photo. Time now to return to the mini-series of images from last week’s quick trip to the Basel-Mulhouse area. Last Wednesday morning, I took this photo of the Café Guillaume Tell in Mulhouse. Wait a minute, isn’t this Tell dude, famous for having shot an Apple off his son’s head, a Swiss folk hero? And isn’t Mulhouse an Alsatian city, and therefore French? Yes and yes, but one must remember that Mulhouse became an associate city of the Swiss Confederation in 1515 and did not become part of France until 1798, so there is quite a bit of Switzerland in this town. Just think: all this explanation for a guy who probably never existed...