Dörnberg (16.10)

Hey,

Addition to 16th October.

In the evning we wnt to Dörnberg mountain, on top of it are "praying stones". Highest point of mountain is ~580m, part we went was ~510m. Most of the way was travelled by car, because weather was muddy and wouldn't have been so much fun to climb up along mountain side :) Area, we went had fence around it, because yet again cows were inside it :D

Little hill, which was part of mountains, we went there. Rocks in top are "praying stones"

On backround you can see on city, at the moment I am there, until Saturday

You can see that moutin keeps going and top of it is in fog :D

 

Mystic! Praying circle I guess

That's all :)

Cya

Enel

Castle of Wartburg, Eisenach (15.10) and Castle of Herkules and Kassel (16.10)

Hey Hey!

We are now on our "vacation" at host-mom's parents in Kassel (well, a bit before Kassel in some city). We are in some kind of valley in the middle of mountains and landscape is just WONDERFUL!

We got here on 14th October, just for dinner time and after that had some free time. Had to wake up early, because breakfast is at 8 o'clock. I am still not used to waking so early, plus c'mon, it's school break! Isn't it for resting? :D

On 15th October after breakfast, around 9:30 we started going to castle named Wartburg. Before that we made a little stop in place called "Baumkreuz". Originally it was built as a border between East- and West-Germany, after IIWW. Now they rebuilt it to seprate two "states".

Castle Wartburg. Why is it so important? As my host-dad said, that castle is bithplace of "German identity", because in that same Castle Martin Luther translated bible from Latin to German. This translation also showed what are correct grammar rules of German language. From bottom the castle looked like this:

View from patio

Castle's south side

View to south:

South tower

North tower

View to North:

Castle Wartburg

Castle's outskirts

After visit to castle we went to city of Eisenach. Very very very beautiful!

Intresting how much km costs?

Eisenach's Old Town

Churches, churches everywhere!

This bread entertains kids on German television from 9PM-7AM

Eyes closed, but still good picture ;)

Most intresting part of the city! Belive or not, but this street is built on bridge!

Not so special, but they have a shops just for left handed people. Super cool! When host-mom first talked about this, I jokingly asked her, if they will sell cups for left handed people and turns out THEY DO! I was so excited about this shop and I can't wait to go back or into next shop for lefties. Oh, I did bought a cup what is meant only for left handed people! xD I show later, when I'm back in Meppen :)

Now you can see better that city is built on a bridge:

Not the same part of the city, but still very nice!

Sun teases me, so not so good pictue. But here are two more entertainers: Captain Blaubär and Hein Blöd

I think everyone knows this fairytale!

I add pictures also from today: Castle of Herkules and city of Kassel.Saddly weather wasn't so nice, but we hope we have more luck on Friday! :)

Castle of Herkules in the mist

At least view was kind of mystic ;)

City of Kassel. First only for pedestrians zone in Germany:

 City itself is a little bit like Frankfurt, a lot of mixed styles, so didn't like it so much.

The monument for the fallen ones

City is filled with "modern art":

That's all. Didn't like Kassel so much, so not so many pictures to show.
Have a nice week!
Enel

Paradise (05.10) and Frankfurt (07.10)

Good morning :)

Something old again.

On 5th October we took our bikes and went to check out another paradise. I don't remeber if I have said it before, but in total, like host-dad says, there should be three "nice" paradises. Way there was quite long, it tooks us around 45minutes to get there. It also sounded very boring idea, who would want to go on 3h bike ride when he or she has school break? But in the end this place turned out to be just fine and very suprising. First when we got there I was thinking that why is there a fence around the paradise, but as we stepped in and walked a bit futher into forest, these started to walk towards us (some lying down):

 First I saw them I was a little bit frightened, but later it was quite okei when they followed. Like last paradise I talked about, this also is untouched by humans and only "machines" are animals and time:

Another old trip was to Frankfurt. Car ride to Frankfurt lasted for 4 hours! Very boring. Back the same way. Frankfurt is a city where you can see many different arhitectur types from different times, so I did not like it so much. What could ruin the view over old city more than skyscrapers?

Old ophera

It's actually a bank

Very, very, very awesome streetart! (And one man photobombs well!)

Person who wrote this is very "talented".. 

These stickers were all over the city, very good meaning and how things should be!

On way back we passed this odd, inside and outside, looking chruch:

Next to church you could see this view

That's all for now and soon I catch up with my posting!
Have a nice week!
Enel