The name is great. In German we call slow worms *Blindschleiche*, a blind sneak. Saw one today on the forest road as I was jogging after the rain.
A snake-like creature on a gravel road
It was a small one, but unafraid!
… with my feet in running sandals for size
The sandals you see in the picture above are my running sandals. See a review by Benjamin Baugh from nearly 10 years ago.
I was running through the forest on the hill behind us:
A forest road with lots of trees
This map from 1925 shows all the land between the river and the forest that used to be agriculture and now it's mostly just the city…
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