Wednesday, May 14, 2014


 Ron and Jeanne's trip to Germany


Isartor in Munich

Isartor was first built in 1337


Tegensee, in the German Alps, south of Munich


Mathis and Ron hiking

It was cold and rainy and snowy

But really pretty

We went back to town

and had beer
With Irene in the English Garden


On the way to Hamburg.  There are lots of farms.

This looks like grapes.  They also grow rapse, solar panels, and windmills.

By the Elbe river in Blankenese

Blankenese is a beautiful suburb of Hamburg

The Elbe is really big


Irene and Wolfgang

Nice houses in Blankenese

Holzentor in Lübeck

Rathaus and Rathaus Markt in Lübeck

Inside Marienkirche in Lübeck

The story of building the church

The devil and a young friend



Buddenbrooks house:  Thomas Mann's grandparents lived there.  It is now a museum.

Burgtor, Lübeck

Hamburg from the roof of the Patriotische Gesellschaft

Hamburg has lots of water



In the basement of the Patriotische Gesellschaft

More basement.  It's actually below water level.

And upstairs, in a meeting room.
Hamburg Rathaus

Hamburg


Busy harbor

really cool big thing

The ruins of Nikolaikirche

Nikolaikirche

A memorial sculpture at Nikolaikirche ruins  (a Denkmal)

Berlin, in the Tiergarten

Trabi Safari



Animal rights demo on Unter den Linden

Humboldt University

Reichstag building

Brandenburger Tor.  Quadriga on top

Quadriga in bears

Noch ein Berliner Bär

I think I was on Heisenberg street, but I'm not certain.

Houseboats on the Spree river

Dresden 

An archaeological dig in the center of Dresden

Frauenkirche

view from almost the top  

Dresden center





in the courtyard of the Zwinger
Leipzig


Thomaskirche, where Bach spent most of his career
Bike truck in Leipzig
Weimar celebrates May Day with a Go Kart race

Ron, Donata, Goethe and Schiller

The Rathaus in Augsburg

Der Goldene Saal
The ceiling of der goldene Saal

outside the Rathaus, in the public square

Ron at the Fuggerei.  The Fuggerei is public housing, first built in 1521
Augsburg was a big textile city and has a textile museum.
This dress was made from samples from over the years.

Then we came home.