tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71432088342092994882024-03-13T14:15:59.478-07:00purplegirl & beermanaussie purplegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514120318116670286noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143208834209299488.post-39030491646473952392018-01-24T03:18:00.000-08:002018-01-24T03:18:09.530-08:00Final Edition
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The bags are
empty and the washing is done (though not put away) we’ve had 2 sleeps in our
own bed and I’m waiting for the jetlag to hit me tomorrow (it hit day 3 last
trip … but I could be lucky this time) so while my brain is functioning I’ll do
the last entry for the Euro 17/18 trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I’ll start
with Christmas … we hoped for a white one but didn’t get it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Never mind!<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Those of you who know me well, know I am a bit of a Christmas Decoration
tragic so here are some photos of European Christmas decorations.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>No pics I’m afraid of the box full I brought
home.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Because they have access to ‘greenery’
that holds up in the cold (and doesn’t have to contend with 35+ degree temps)
the Europeans do decorations so well.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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flowers – lots of flowers, potted, in bunches, and the florist shops are
divine.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I could look at them all day and
never tire of it.</span></div>
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lucky enough to travel comes home with mixed feelings about some parts of the
places they went.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We came home with
mixed feelings about Prague in particular.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Yes, it’s a magnificent city with glorious historical buildings and
magical views but it is also a city with a major problem with graffiti.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This really was in a shop window in Bad Kreuznach ... and it wasn't the only place we saw guns in shop windows</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And then
there are these … specially for our friends Lenny & Amie who take fabulous
photos of doors.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We tried hard to get
the whole rainbow but I think you’ll agree there are some corkers here in any
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">So there you
have it … Purplegirl & Beerman’s European Adventure.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Fifty four days, 13 cities, lots of villages
& towns, we’ve had a ball, met up with wonderful friends along the way and
seen more than we ever dreamed of.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Thanks for coming along XX</span></div>
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– the weather was looking a bit ominous but we took the train to Darmstadt –
partly on Lauren’s recommendation.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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meets the mighty Rhine, past farming land (strawberries in polytunnels among
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">It’s a
beautiful area, lots of gorgeous houses that reminded us of the day in Dresden
when we went to Loschwitz near Dresden.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The artists’ colony was founded in 1899 by Ernest Ludwig,
Grand Duke of Hesse (and Grandson of Queen Victoria).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was intended that this colony would be a
combination of art and trade and would provide economic stimulus for the State.
The artists’ goal was to be the development of modern and forward-looking forms
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Joseph Maria Olbrich planned the Wedding Tower and the
neighbouring Exhibition Building, which were opened in 1908 as a venue for the
members of the artists’ colony to display their artistic work.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We took the lift to the top of the Wedding
Tower for some fab views over Darmstadt but sadly the Exhibition Building was
closed for a major renno.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous mosaic inside the Wedding Tower</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">By now it
was raining quite heavily so we did a bit of a lap of some of the local streets
to admire the architecture before catching a bus back into the centre of town
for lunch and some shopping.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There is
only one train an hour from Darmstadt to Mainz so we caught the 5.40pm train
and arrived back in Mainz where the rain had turned to snow.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Magical end to almost 8 weeks in Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Stay tuned
in the coming days for a last couple of entries – there are doors to be shown
(especially for our friend Leonard) and flowers and a bunch of other pics that
somehow didn’t fit into any of the individual days entries.</span></div>
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<br />aussie purplegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514120318116670286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143208834209299488.post-89002096833538952382018-01-20T14:44:00.002-08:002018-01-20T14:44:21.237-08:00Two Musuems on Firday
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Mainz is
full of great museums.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Yesterday we
checked out the Landesmuseum (State Museum) and the Carnival Museum.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I didn’t get a chance to write up yesterdays
adventures because we went to Dagmar & Matthias’ for dinner.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Not much of a history lesson in this edition either
– its our last night in Germany – we head home tomorrow morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Landesmuseum
is in a beautiful Baroque building that, in a former life was the stables for
the Prince Electors doesn’t have a huge collection compared with other museums
we’ve seen but it gives a pretty detailed account of the history of Mainz, from
before Roman times to the gorgeous-ness of Art Nouveau.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Enjoy some photos.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A recreation of the Prince of Pading's grave</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Religious paintings of the middle ages sometimes showed how people died - check out the lady in green</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love this - its the 3rd (and bottom) layer in an Architect's travelling work-case from 1714</td></tr>
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was the Carnival Museum – housed in the basement of the lovely old building, it
covers the history of Carnival from 1837 to today.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Carnival traces its history back further than the 1830’s
though, there are aparently records from the end of the 15th century describes
carnival as an unorganized folkfest comprising masquerade, meals, drinking and
dancing during day and night. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Carnival kicks off at 11.11am on the 11<sup>th</sup>
November (a time and date chosen long before the Armistice) and culminates in a
giant street parade.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Over the years the
various carnival clubs were formed and each held their own celebrations,
dinners, gala entertainment nights etc.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">During the 19th century celebrants began using the
carnival as an opportunity to mock the military forces occupying the city's
fortress. The uniforms of the carnival guards are still reminders of the
uniforms of the Austrian, Prussian, and French troops which were present in the
town between 1792 and 1866. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In Mainz, Carnival culminates with a huge street parade
with floats (that have become more an more political as the years have gone on)
and marching bands (in uniforms based on the foreign troops from the 18<sup>th</sup>
century) and a LOT of drinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The museum
also has 5 of the remaining ‘schwellkoppe’ (swollen heads) on display.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dagmar tells us that getting people to march
with them is getting more difficult – they weigh over 25kg and the parade route
is 7km long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And to top
off a fantastic day we had dinner with Dagmar, Matthias & Alissa at their
home in Nackenhiem.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We caught the train
(its only 12 minutes) and Alissa met us at the station to walk us to their
place – I remembered the street name but given my luck with google maps on this
trip may not have actually found the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">What a wonderful
night – we caught the last train home and arrived at our stop just before
midnight.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>aussie purplegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514120318116670286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143208834209299488.post-70531026701800730082018-01-18T12:52:00.000-08:002018-01-18T12:52:34.368-08:00Slow day in Mainz
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we visited Mainz in 2012/3 Dagmar put together a
wonderful walking tour that ticked off the big name sites in town.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Today we had a return visit to the Dom of St
Martin and a bit more of a wander round town.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mainz is a really lovely city – and I’m really surprised it doesn’t
feature more heavily on tourists itineraries.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Its got everything you’d want – beautiful street-scapes, quirky
fountains, grand churches, fantastic restaurants & cafes, so much history
you could drown, world-class museums and great shopping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The 1000-year-old Dom never ceases to amaze us – its HUGE, although
much more austere than the baroque churches we’ve seen throughout the rest of Europe.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We checked out the small museum underneath
before heading out to my favourite part of the whole cathedral – the stunningly
beautiful covered cloister around a courtyard attached to the side.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The outside of the Dom is actually quite hard
to photograph, and certainly a ‘whole’ cathedral photo is impossible because
there are so many other buildings built up close to it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The bronze model gives you an idea of the size
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right round the windows a pictorial list of all the Bishops of Mainz - from 976 to now.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favourite part of the Mainz Dom </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Six of the 12 Apostles dating from 1270</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Altar table from 1310</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After the Dom we headed down past the Gutenberg Museum
towards the Rhine.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On the way I found
one of only 2 new Mianzer Man crossing lights.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I hope they roll these guys out over the coming months/years because he’s
really cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then it was through the Altstadt past the oldest
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back for a coffee & cake before some more meandering
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After a lovely dinner with Dagmar, Matthias & Alissa
last night at a microbrewery (you probably saw the photo of Tony and his baked pork
knuckle) we set off this morning to explore Frankfurt with them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Just before we left it started to snow.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It didn’t last long and much of it began
melting pretty much as soon as it hit the ground but we walked to the Romisches
Theatre station to meet our guides and snapped off a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Romisches Theatre is the new name of the Mainz Sud (South)
railway station, named for the Roman Theatre which is right next door to
platform 4 … so right next door that half the stage area was gobbled up when
the station was built in the 1880’s and the historical value of the theatre was
ignored, a retaining wall was built and the area filled.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Renovations, excavations took place in the
early 2000’s and Alissa remembers spending time when she was at school being an
archaeological labourer, shifting dirt from the Theatre site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The train from Mainz to Frankfurt crosses the Rhine River and
travels past the airport and the huge Opel Factory complex (where Matthias was
an engineer for many years) that’s so big it has its own named station.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Opel occupies a site on both sides of the
rail line – every facet of car design & consruction happens here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Once in Frankfurt itself, we came up from the station and our
first view was of the Hauptwache – dwarfed by the buildings around it, this
1730’s guardhouse is now a café.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Just
down the street is the thoroughly modern Myzeil shopping centre with a hole
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Then to the Small Market – here again are a few thousand
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We spent ages looking through the stalls, tasting samples
and talking to stallholders about their produce before heading towards the Frankfurt
Dom – also known as St Bartholomew’s Cathedral, stopping on the way for a coffee.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the centre one is Matcha cheesecake ... I passed even if it did look really pretty</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Dom stands on a site occupied by churches since about
680AD.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Charlemagne was in the area in
the 790’s and the current church was used as the venue for the crowning of the electors of Mainz and
German Kings since the 12<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> century.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>It got an overhaul and extension in the 1560’s before burning down<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in 1867. It quickly rebuilt in the Neo Gothic style. As you can see from the photo below, cathedral was severely damaged during WW2 .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It was sleeting when we came out of the Dom so we scurried
to have a quick look at the “New Old Town’ where the re-development is a
deliberate mix of buildings which appear to be traditional styled half-timbered
buildings (but not actually made of timber), and 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> & 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
century buildings mixed together.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dagmar
joked that in a few years the Japanese tourists will be completely ‘taken with
the mix’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A quick detour to see the Main River and the next stop was
the historical Romer – the iconic Town Hall dating from 1405 <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and the other lovely buildings round the Romerburg.
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There are lots of churches in Frankfurt, but the one with
the most fascinating story is St Pauls.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>In around 1270 a monastery was built by Franciscan monks on the site,
and in 1548 another church is built, known as the Barfusserkirche, the main
Lutheran church in the city run by the 'Barefoot Monks.' This one is demolished
in the 1780’s and a new round church is built in the 1830’s and consecrated as
a Lutheran Church.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1848 it becomes
the venue for the German National Assembly before reverting back to a church in
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Smashed in air-raids in 1944 it is rebuilt in 1948 but not
as a church – it keeps its original round design but today it is used as a political
memorial and conference venue.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is also
the venue for the presentation of the annual <span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;">The <span style="margin: 0px;">Peace Prize of the German Book
Trade – won in 2017 by Margaret Atwood.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span>According
to its statute, “the foundation is committed to peace, humanity and
understanding among all peoples and nations of the world. The Peace Prize
promotes international tolerance by acknowledging individuals who have
contributed to these ideals through their exceptional activities, especially in
the fields of literature, science and art. Prize winners are chosen without any
reference to their national, racial or religious background."</span><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Our last stop on a fascinating and fabulous visit to
Frankfurt was the Terrace atop the Galeria Kaufhof department store for some
incredible views of the Frankfurt skyline … including watching the planes approach
the airport .. two at a time on a 90 second separation.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That is one busy airport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Back on the train to Mainz and plans for dinner on Friday
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span>aussie purplegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514120318116670286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143208834209299488.post-43923548996923417602018-01-16T13:55:00.001-08:002018-01-16T13:55:14.547-08:00Magial Mystery Day Trip
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Day 47</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After 6 weeks of meticulously planned exploring we decided
this morning just to go to the station and see where the next train was going,
and if it was somewhere interesting, just to get on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s exactly what we did, the train to Saarburcken stopped
at Bad Kreuznch and we got off.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is
a wine growing part of Germany, large swathes of vineyards, small towns dotted
along, a couple of larger industrial looking towns and our half an hour trip
flew by. It had rained last night in Mainz and was grey and murky looking this morning. We crossed our fingers that the rain would hold off and as luck would have it, were rewarded with beautiful clear blue skies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We got off the train and looked around – hmmmm cant see
anything special here, hope we’ve not made a gigantic mistake.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But I spotted a steeple in the distance and
then a sign that said ‘Altstadt’ … so we had a start.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Down through a fairly modern looking high
street and soon the familiar half timbered buildings came into view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Home now to around 50,000 residents it’s a gorgeous ton with
an amazing long and varied history. <span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;">About 58 BC, the area became part of the Roman empire and as late as
250AD a Roman legion was stationed here. </span>Then from the 10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
to the 12<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> centuries, land in and around the area was under the
ownership of an assortment of Holy Roman Emperors including Otto, Friedrich and
various Henrys.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over the centuries there have been 8 monasteries, 2
synagogues (though the Jewish population has always been a very small
percentage of the population) During the 30 Year War it was over-run 8 times
and possession switched between the French, the Spanish and the Swedes.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>During the Napoleonic Wars it was occupied by
both the French & the Austrians, and eventually <span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;">passed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1904, the
pharmacist Karl Aschoff discovered the Kreuznach brine's radon content and the
town was quickly billed as a "radium healing spa." <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1917 Kaiser Wilhelm II arrived and lived
in one of the spa houses. In December 1917, General Mustafa Kemal Pasha –
better known as Atatürk, the Kaiser and <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Paul
von Hindenburg met for talks.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">From 1939 to
1940, it became the seat of the German Army High Command, and was heavily targeted
by Allied air raids before being captured by US troops in March 1945. </span></span></div>
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the Altstadt and just wandered the streets delighting in the old half-timbered
buildings and the gorgeous views up and down the Nahe River from the famous
Alte Naheburcke.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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dinner with our dear friends Matthias & Dagmar and were delighted and
surprised that their daughter Alissa (who we first met when she was Lauren's 'exchange sister' in 2005/6) could join us – we thought she’s gone back
to South Africa for work.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tomorrow we’re
off to explore Frankfurt with them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">All
shops except bakeries and restaurants/cafés that service the tourist industry
are closed on Sundays in Germany so we headed for tourist central Dom Platz for
breakfast before heading up the nearby hill to explore the Citadel Petersberg. Having
thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the Citadel in Prague we were in good spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We’d
done some research last night and knew that it is </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">one of the largest and best
preserved town fortresses in Europe. Built on the site of a medieval
Benedictine Monastery, the earliest parts of the complex date from the 12th
century. The citadel was built on Petersberg hill, from 1665, when Erfurt was
governed by the Electorate of Mainz. It is surrounded by over two kilometres of
stone walls and is 36 hectares in size</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Erfurt has been ruled by Sweden, Prussia,
Napoleon, the German Empire, the Nazis, and post-World War II Soviet occupying
forces, and it was part of the German Democratic Republic. All of these regimes
used Petersberg Citadel and had an influence on its development. The baroque
fortress was in military use until 1963</span></div>
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of the Benedictine Monastery of St Peter and Paul, after which the hill, and
subsequently the citadel, was named. The first recorded evidence of the
monastery is from 1060, but it may have existed a considerable time before that.
The original building was burnt down in 1080, but was rebuilt from 1103 to 1147.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bakery wasn't open but do check out the icicle on the drain thingy 3' above the sign (it was past noon)</td></tr>
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we were really disappointed – the grounds are fantastic and the views are amazing
but not a single building was open, there were no information panels at the
various buildings and many were in a pretty bad state.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We spent an hour or so wandering round before
giving up and looking for somewhere to get out of the biting wind.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Local authorities are arguing over what to do with the Garrison Building - such potential - military museum, function centres, high end hotel - the list is endless but it WILL be expensive now that the building has been let deteriorate to the current state.</td></tr>
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the bottom of the citadel is the Andreasstrasse Memorial and Education
Centre.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Originally we’d decided not to
add yet another Stasi prison to our itinerary but since we’d not used up much
time on the citadel, and it was inside we ventured in. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Andreasstrasse had been a regular prison with 3
floors of cells up till the early 1950’s when the Stasi commandeered the top two
floors. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was great – and the audio
guide gave a very detailed tour and included recordings of former political
prisoners.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It competed the timeline of
prisons in the DDR following on perfectly from what we saw and learned n the
Stasi Prison tour in Dresden since this one concentrated on the 60’s-80’s.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every small black dot represented an apartment where Stasi informants could go to hand in their 'information' There were over 400 in Erfurt alone</td></tr>
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now we were ready once again for one of our customary late lunches (as in 2.30pm)
before we made a quick stop at the Augustinkloster complex where Martin Luther
lived & studied 500 years ago.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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was getting really cold (4pm it was -1) so we headed back to the flat for a
nanna nap.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tomorrow we’re off to Mainz
and our long awaited catch-up with our dear friends Dagmar & Matthias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Neither
of us knew much about Erfurt so we spent a bit of time last night making a list
of stuff we wanted to see.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Breakfast as
usual at a little bakery and then off on a route I’d planned out courtesy of
google maps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Erfurt
is one of the most intact medieval cities in Germany having escaped any bombing
in WW2.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mentioned in the writings of St
Boniface in the 700’s, Erfurt grew to become an important trading city during
the middle ages and by 1275 it was a walled city with a town hall.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">part of the Via Regia, a medieval trade and
pilgrims' road network, which linked Rome with the Baltic Sea, and Moscow with Santiago
de Compostela in northern Spain. It's situated on the River Gera - which through the town itself is not exactly a 'river' ... more of a small stream.</span></div>
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current town hall in the Altstadt was built in 1870 and is surrounded by more
examples of gorgeous renaissance architecture.</span></div>
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damaged in a number of fires between then and 1472, and finally re-built in its
current form in 1486 it’s lined on both sides with wonderful merchants houses.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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Jewish community was also founded in the 12<sup>th</sup> century but in </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1349, the Jews of Erfurt
were rounded up, and driven from the city<span style="margin: 0px;">
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taken over by a wealthy merchant and turned into a warehouse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was this which may have inadvertently
saved it from destruction as it was virtually unrecognisable as a synagogue during
the years before WW2 and thus it was not destroyed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You are not allowed to take photos inside so
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It’s on the top floor however, that the most
incredible exhibition is to be found. In 1998 excavations were being carried
out for a new building on the <span style="margin: 0px;">Michaelisstrasse.
U</span>nder the wall of a cellar entry workmen discovered a hoard of
treasures, thought to have been buried sometime during the 1349 pogram. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It consists of silver coins and ingots as well
as over 700 extraordinary works of gold smith work dating to the 13th and 14th
centuries.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Among the treasures are 11
pieces of silver tableware including a <span style="margin: 0px;">Doppelkopf</span>
( a common form of cup in the 14th and 15th century), a shallow drinking bowl,
a jug and 8 goblets that fit into each other. These goblets are decorated with
gothic arches that have been gold plated and date to the first half of the 14th
century. Inside the double cup was a stash of jewellery including 8 brooches of
various sizes set with ornamental stones and 8 rings.<sup id="cite_ref-AID_2-4">
</sup><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This mindblowing Jewish Wedding Ring
is the priceless centrepiece of the collection – the only one of its kind in
the world. (I lifted these photos from the internet so you could see just how
amazing they were)</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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coffee stop at Domplatz (the big square in front of the cathedral) and we were
off up the stairs to visit St Marys Dom. Built on the site of </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">many other Christian
buildings, (Saint Boniface’s church from 742 and a <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Romanesque basilica) its been a build upon
what was there before site. The foundations of the original church were used
for a Romanesque basilica in the mid 12th century and the mound was then
enlarged in the early 14th century to make room for St. Mary's cathedral. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s huge and lovely and Martin Luther was
ordained in the cathedral on 3 April 1507.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous stained glass windows and amazing Gothic choir stalls</td></tr>
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next door is St Severus Church. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 836, the relics
of St. Severus of Ravenna were brought by the Archbishop of Mainz to Germany,
first to Mainz and later to Erfurt. The relics were housed in a monastery that
stood on the site of the present Severikirche.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> B</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">uilding
of the present church began in the 1270's and it was consecrated in 1308.
The famous sarcophagus to hold the relics of St Severus was installed around
1365. Apart from the tomb, the other show-stopper is the baptismal font
with its spectacular 15m high canopy which was added in 1467.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and the fanciest baptismal font I have ever seen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No crypt (much to Tony's dismay) - but the floor is covered in tombstones</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The building on the left is part of the University of Erfurt that dates to 1392</td></tr>
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stop was the now partially destroyed Barfusserkirche (Black Friars Church)
where Martin Luther preached during his ten years in Erfurt.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s currently closed for some additional
remedial and stabilisation work but even looking through the gate or taking
pics from across the road it was lovely and in its day would have been beautiful.</span></div>
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space’ – this afternoon and tonight’s performances are ‘Urban Jazz” and its
bloody awful!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Our last day
in Berlin … hard to believe we’ve been here 5 days.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Original plans were to visit the Sanssoucci
Palace but tickets had to be bought online for a designated entry time and then
printed out.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We have no access to a
printer and I couldn’t find out if they would accept the ticket document sent
to my phone or via a dropbox so Sanssouci got ditched in favour of Charlottenburg
Palace.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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rain, not heavy but potentially enough to be annoying.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It drizzled on and off all morning but we didn’t
really get wet.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On the train to Richard
Wagner Platz and then a short bus ride and we were deposited at the front gate.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The oldest
sections of the palace date from 1695 when </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Sophie Charlotte,
the wife of Friedrich III,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>commissioned
the building of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>palace.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This part was finished just before Friedrich
crowned himself as King Friedrich I in Prussia in 1701. The rooms in this section of the palace are gorgeous.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queen Sophie Charlotte was an accomplished harpsicord layer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red silk damask wall 'paper' with lace detail</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">close-up of that luscious wallpapaer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Royal Chapel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friedrich's rooms were furnished quite differently to Sophie's</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family portraits in Sophie's dressing room</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In 1702, two side wings were added to enclose a large
courtyard, and the main palace was extended on both sides. Sophie Charlotte
died in 1705 and Friedrich named the palace and its estate Charlottenburg
in her memory.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sophie loved blue & white porcelain but died before this room was completed</td></tr>
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son, Friedrich Wilhelm I whose building plans were less ambitious, although he
did ensure that the building was properly maintained. Building was resumed
after his son Friedrich II (Frederick the Great) came to the throne in 1740.</span></div>
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Wilhelm II who transformed five rooms on the ground floor of the east wing into
his summer quarters and part of the upper floor into Winter Chambers, although
he did not live long enough to use them. His son, Friedrich Wilhelm III came to
the throne in 1797 and reigned with his wife, Queen Luise for 43 years.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pale green, white & gold - this state room takes your breath away</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queen Luise had a 'sleeping nook' built into her new bedroom after she discovered Napoleon had slept in her original bedroom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The furniture in this room is original - it (and anything else they could move) were moved into safe storage in about 1942</td></tr>
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was badly damaged during WW2 and came close to being demolished.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>What we saw today is the result of many years
of painstaking work by an extraordinary team of artisans.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some of the furniture is original hving been
removed to safe storage in late 1942, other pieces are original to the time (but
not this palace) having come to Charlottenburg from other now-demolished
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exception of the ‘man cave’ (the Pavillion) built by Friedrich Wilhelm III every
effort has been made to re-do/re-furnish the rooms as they would have been
during the time of one of the Freds.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
‘man cave’ now houses a few of his pieces but is essentially a tribute to the
architect responsible for much of the palace.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We dubbed this the 'man cave' - Friedrich Wilhelm III escaped to this 2 story Pavilion </td></tr>
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about 3 ½ hours exploring the two main wings of the palace, the Pavilllion and
taking<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>walk to the imposing formal
garden and once again we’d missed a ‘normal’ lunch time so we headed back to Richard
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we headed for K’damm and the Kathe Wolfhardt Christmas shop where I hoped to
add one more to my collection.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It
totally sucked to find her closed for stocktaking! ….. so we had a wander round
the shopping area of K’damm, checked out the partially demolished <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and Legoland before
heading to Potsdammer Platz in search of dinner. </span></div>
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we decided to have a pretty quiet day - <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>we packed in a lot yesterday.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A foggy walk after breakfast and we were back
at the Gendarmenmarkt.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Google maps tells
us we’re at the Deutscher Dom.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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refers to a Cathedral and we wanted to check it out.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It turns out (despite what we were told by
our walking tour guide in 2013) that this is not a Church but rather a tower
with a DOME.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The two identical towers
with their domes are built next to two small churches built for French (Huguenot)
and German speaking Protestants in the first decade of the 1700s.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The building is now under the control of the
Budnestag and functions as an exhibition space for a large (and unfortunately
for us all in German) detailed exhibition on the history of Democracy in
Germany in the years from about 1850.</span></div>
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Unter Den Linden, through Bebelplatz (site of the Nazi book burning in 133),
past St Hedwigs and the Humboldt University the <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and we were at Museum Island.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The building works we saw last time appear to
be almost finished and a new combined entrance, ticket office and museum shop
of all the museums on Museum Island is nearing completion.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The irony isn't lost on most visitors - a book stall outside the Humboldt University.. 50yards from the Bebelplatz site of the book burning</td></tr>
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Dom – this one, the church kind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Although technically
not a Cathedral (Dom) because it is not the seat of a Bishop, the Berliner Dom is
a magnificent building. The first church on the site was a Catholic chapel in 1451
but it’s taken 3 major makeovers/rebuilds and some pretty major style changes to
get to its current incarnation which was built in 1905.</span></div>
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again and into a still very foggy Berlin.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Across the Spree and into Alexanderplatz for some lunch and
shopping.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was so foggy you could
hardly see the </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">368 metre tall <span style="margin: 0px;">Fernsehturm
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Day 40</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Yesterday was a big day – and with a 10pm finish so here’s
yesterday’s exploring edition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">On foot again (as usual) we passed Trabi World, the Topography
of Terror with its section of standing Wall (and the monolithic Gestapo
Headquarters next door) and headed for the East German border tower looking
into the ‘Death Strip’ between the two lines of wall.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s apparently the only one left and
although it is possible to climb up for a look, no-one was there so on we went
after a couple of photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">On the Ubahn train from Postdammer Platz out to Warschauser Strasse and a bit of a
walk to the East Side Gallery.<span style="margin: 0px;"> The neighbourhood has a distinct grungy feel, some interesting street art and views along the Spree River in both directions.</span></span></div>
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consisting of 105 paintings by artists from all over the world, painted in 1990.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Just over 1.3km long it’s a fascinating look
at people;s interpretation of freedom.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sadly,
some of the works have been badly damaged by vandalism<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>graffiti (I cant get my head round why anyone
would want to do that) A number have been re-done – either by the original
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prior to WW1. In </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">June 1945, the Soviet Secret Police took over the Hohenschönhausen area and
transformed it into a detainment and transit camp, called Special Camp No. 3. Over
20,000 people passed through Special Camp No. 3 on their way to other Soviet
camps. Living conditions in the prison were deplorable, with death from
malnutrition, disease, or cold common. The most infamous part of the prison was
‘the submarine’ so called because the cells were underground and received
absolutely no daylight. As many as 3000, people died here and their bodies were
disposed of in local bomb craters. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The prison was reopened by the East German Ministry of State Security, also
known as the Stasi, in 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-hist_3-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-Hohensch%C3%B6nhausen_Memorial#cite_note-hist-3"></a></sup>
The Stasi added a new prison building (using prisoner labour) in the late
1950s. The new building included 200 prison cells and interrogation rooms.
After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the prison was primarily
used to house those who wished or attempted to leave East Germany, although
political prisoners were also held there. The prison was used until <span style="margin: 0px;">the Wall came down</span> in 1989 and
officially closed on 3 October 1990.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Our guide (whose name I missed when
she introduced herself) was amazing – hugely knowledgeable and the 2hr tour was
peppered with anecdotes and fascinating (if gruesome) details.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Right at the end when we had one last chance
for questions (we’d been encouraged to ask questions all the way through) I
asked her if she had a connection to the prison.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Turns out her father had done 2 stints
there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The first as a 16yr old, totally
innocent he’d been just being some other random man in a line for bread.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Russians arrested tha man in front and
thought the kid behind had something to do with whatever the guy in front did
so they arrested him too.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>2 weeks in the
pokie!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After school/college her father worked
for a mining company that mined uranium.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Long story short he was an early whistle blower who was giving the Poms
info via ‘letter without a sender’ and on his last run got caught.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A couple of months in this prison undergoing
pshychological interrogation and then shipped off to another prison for 12
years.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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One’ show at the Freidrichstadt Palast.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Lauren & Ainsley had given us tickets for Xmas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>With costumes by John Paul Gaultier, this all
singing, all dancing, aerials and music show was incredible.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We were allowed to take photos of the curtain
calls so that’s all you are going to get.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Just take my work it was fantastic and if you are even in Berlin – add it
to your list of “must do”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Day 38</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Up and out in the dark this morning in time to grab a quick
breakfast at the station before our train to Berlin.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The trip is just under 2hrs, much of which is
through rolling, productive farming land interspersed with blocks of trees
(birch trunks showing their best winter white and conifers of varying kinds) before
you enter the outskirts of Berlin. We passed a number of solar farms and wind
generators and the delightful allotment gardens which we took to calling Hobbit
Houses on our last trip. Apologies for the quality of some of todays photos - taken out a dirty window of a train going at 100+km/hr and this is the best I can manage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Our apartment is in a big apartment block (that also houses
the Berlin Curryworst Museum !!) within a stones throw of Checkpoint Charlie
and just a couple of hundred metres from the Stadmittre U-bahn station so
getting there from the main station was a piece of cake.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Finding the actual apartment door in a huge
complex – eeer not so easy but we made it in the end.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Unpacked and out for a walk and some lunch.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Salad rolls & coffee at a bakery then
down to check out Checkpoint Charlie.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We’d
walked past it last time we were in Berlin in 2013 as part of a walking tour we
took – it seems they have added a lot more historical info about the wall in a
large outdoor display since we were here with Lauren. We read our way round the
display just to refresh our memory and took another picture of us standing in both East & West Berlin.</span></div>
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Brandenburg Gate so we headed in that direction passing the Memorial to the
Murdered Jews of Europe on the way.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
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quick look and as it was really cold this afternoon and someone forgot to be
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It’s lovely to be back in Berlin – I can’t put my finger on
why we really liked it the first time but it’s there again.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Looking forward to the next 4 days and a few of the things we missed
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span>aussie purplegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514120318116670286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143208834209299488.post-40517619720848302432018-01-06T10:54:00.002-08:002018-01-06T11:00:21.625-08:00Checking out the local Real Estate<br />
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almost constantly on the go with something touristy on the itinerary for every
day.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Today we found ourselves with an
empty day having decided to skip the planned day-trip to Leipzig.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When we checked into this apartment our host
Theodor (via a translation app on his phone) suggested we go and see the Blaues
Wunder Brucke and ride the Seilbahn.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Adding to our tally of local transport
we caught bus 61 to Loschwitz in time for a late morning tea at the locally
famous Kaffee Wippler .<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a 25min
trip out through the Dresden burbs and you get a great look at local life as
the bus wends its way past the Tiergarten (far end of the Grosse Garten) and
through suburban streets.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This part of
Dresden appears by the age of the houses to have avoided the destruction rained
upon the inner city.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The 18<sup>th </sup>century
houses sit side by side with those from the 20’s and those of the DDR era.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kaffee Wippler has been run by the one family since 1910</td></tr>
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on the Standseilbahn (funicular) we took a wander round the local streets.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was really cool to see that in this part
of Dresden, little plaques are attached to the front fences of every home and
lists the date of their building.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Many homes
also indicated the date the houses had been renovated.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>What a cool way to present a home’s history!</span></div>
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an impressive bridge to look at now but in 1893 when it was built it was a wonder
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we caught the Seilbahn (Funicular) up to the hilltop enclave of </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Weisser Hirsch. The
railway was opened in 1895, originally run by a steam engine before being converted
to electricity in 1910. During the bombing of Dresden in 1945, the lower
station of the funicular was destroyed. Fortunately the <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>cars had been moved for safety into the line's
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Our original idea had been to catch the Sielbahn up and catch the nearby
Schwebebahn (</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> a hanging monoral – and with a build date of 1901 one of
the oldest) </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">down, but from our watching at our coffee stop it looked like the Schwebebahn
wasn’t working today.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We bought a return
ticket on the Seilbahn and having seen the steepness of the incline – I’m very
glad we did. Even on a cloudy day, the views are amazing.</span><br />
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Bay, Tourak or any other well-heeled suburb.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They were rather lovely and we took turns in picking out the one we’d
like.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I also picked out one that would
make a fantastic retirement ‘project’</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Complete with Deer Head ... maybe a hunting lodge in a previous life?</td></tr>
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area across the road – with lots of people heading in.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Following out of curiosity, we walked a
couple of hundred metres into the ‘bush’ only to come across a skating rink!</span></div>
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nice just to have a really slow day and take it easy.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dinner tonight is ham, cheese, salami etc on
biscuits or pumpernickel bread and a beer or two before packing for the next
leg of our trip – we’re off to Berlin in the morning.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>aussie purplegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514120318116670286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143208834209299488.post-80813036715158254902018-01-05T13:56:00.000-08:002018-01-05T13:56:14.850-08:00No cake today ...
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Day 36</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are only a couple of pretty ordinary restaruants out
in our part of Dresden so we decided to head in late, do our touristing and
have dinner in town before coming home.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Tram #9 from Querallee to Palaisplatz did the honours today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our itinerary today contained only one stop – the Residenzschloss
(Dresden Royal Palace). <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We shelled out
for the standard #1 ticket $ 12 euro each.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>This gave us access to everything except the Historical Green Vault and
as it turned out we couldn’t have managed to add this without our heads
exploding.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The first building on the
site went up in 1485 and from then to the end of WW1 it was the home of the
King of Saxony.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Palace was smashed
by the 1945 bombing and initial plans by the DDR government to demolish it were
met with stiff resistance.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Little work
was done other than to sling a temporary roof over it in the Iron Curtain years
and what we saw today is the result of less than 30 years of work – its astonishing…
there are no other words to describe what has been re-built from the rubble of
1945.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You enter the museum up the ‘English Staircase’ – a graceful
square staircase built in 1692 that takes you up through all levels of the
palace.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Originally just for the Royal
family it was renamed the English Staircase in 1693 when the then elector
Johann Georg IV was made a Knight of the Garter.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Severely damaged in a fire in 1771 it was
rebuilt, before being almost completely destroyed in the 1945 bombing.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rebuilding work finished in 2010</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally cleared of rubble in 2005</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And as it is today - restoration/rebuilding finished in 2010</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You enter the <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>New
Green Vault – little brother to the Historical Green Vault via the Princes
Gallery – a long room lined with busts of the Saxon Kings and Paintings of
about a dozen electors from the 16 & 1700’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The New green Vault is the ‘lesser’ of the collection put
together over several hundred years by a succession of Kings of Saxony and the
Electors of Saxony.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The 1600’s in
Germany was a time of serious one-up’s-man-ship and each time something special
happened – birth, birthday, marriage, crowning the family added amazing
treasures to their collection which they housed in the Green Vault.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They amassed a priceless collection of works
by court jewellers, turners, cabinet makers, carvers etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are over 1000 works in the New Green Vault – here are
some of our favourites (for various reasons – jaw-dropping, amazing artisan
skill and just plain ‘you have to be kidding’)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rolling ball clock 1603</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandstone relief carving of the nativity - 1588 ... the detail is astonishing given it is only about 25cm across</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gold wall mirror 1587</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Automaton - Centaur & Diana - the dogs heads nodded and the Centaur fired his bow</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ivory Ship 1620</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WInner of the 'Just plain wierd' award .. Dancing Dwarf - his body is a mis-shapen pearl 4" tall. 1706</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coffee set 1697</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Famed Green Diamond - only known one of its kind - 41carats surrounded by 411 other diamonds. Nice little trinket</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exquisitely embroidered mitre Archbishop of Brandenburg 1490</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After almost 2hours in the Green Vault we headed for the
Renaissance Wing where the display of Electoral costume from the 1600’s had me
utterly drooling.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Original garments
preserved due to the foresight of Elector August of Saxony (1526-1586) who
ordered that his brothers garments be preserved.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Subsequent electors added their garments.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red silk suit Duke Johann Fredrich I of Saxony 1540</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parade Garment Elector Christian II blue silk 1610</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red silk garment Prince Johann George of Saxony 1617</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">close up of the embroidery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parade Dress Electress Magdelena Sybilla of Saxony 1650</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parade Cape Elector Johann Grorg 1611</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Life in Renaissance Germany is displayed via furniture and
tools from around 1600.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Electors of Saxony had already developed a taste for
collecting by the time they had any interactions with the Ottomans.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The collection features a full sized tent,
weaponry (which was really hard to photograph due to shadows and lighting) and
some magnificent ceremonial horse trappings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Giants Hall is now home to an astonishing collection of
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was almost 4pm when we called it quits on the collections
of the Residenzschloss. Possibly the most amazing museum of its kind either of
us have ever seen. Quite by accident we stumbled on a medieval fair (pretty
sure its there all the time) and stopped for a very late lunch before taking a
quick look in the fading light at the mural of Saxon Kings which adorns one of
the back walls of the Palace complex.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Schnitzel for dinner in one of the late opening shopping
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A late start saw us walk the 3km from our flat into the city
centre in time for morning tea.<span style="margin: 0px;"> Dresden has a gorgeous park called the Gross Garten and our apartment is just a block from the end of it. It's in winter mode at the moment but must be delightful in spring & summer. The gold paint guys must be out and about at the moment too - this statue was in the Gross Garten but we saw lots of other freshly painted gold all over the city.</span></span></div>
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stopped on the way at a Vodafone store and a lovely little fellow sorted us
with a new SIM card – it will last us the remainder of our trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the 16<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> February 1945 Dresden lay in ruins.
In the preceding days <span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;">more than
3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices were dropped on the
city resulting in a<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>firestorm that
destroyed over 6.5 km</span></span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">2</span></sup><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> of the city centre and killed around 25,000 people.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Today Dresden is a beautiful, thriving,
vibrant city with an incredible array of historical buildings, museums, art
galleries and the like.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s rise from
the ashes of those dreadful few days is testament to the sheer tenacity of the
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Looking initially for the tourist information centre we came
to the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady).<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Consecrated in 1735, the gutted remains collapsed on February 16<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
1945.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Being on the wrong side of the
iron curtain meant the rubble wasn’t even cleared till 1993. By 2005 the
re-building was finished, complete with a new cross for the tower, given by the
people of the UK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As much original materials as possible was collected,
sorted, numbered and re-used.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
amazing baroque altar had escaped the worst of the collapse and was brought
back to life, and the interior painting followed the original plans.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>From all over the Saxony region, people sent
wedding photos and these were also used to help in the reconstruction.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They’ve done an amazing job because the church
is truly beautiful inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span>I’m still at a bit of a
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festival grounds, part keeping up with (or possibly one-upping)<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the French Kings.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s now a museum complex that is also a
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gruesome Cholerabrunnen, headed into a nearby mall before heading back to the
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Today was
our last day in Prague and we spent it exploring the sites on the other side of
the river.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Our trusty tram #9 took us
through town and over the river where we caught the funicular up to the top of
Petrin Hill.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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was as neat as a pin and I was surprised to see the roses in the formal beds
had been pruned and then covered with a ‘blanket’ of what looked like blue spruce.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It grows so slowly in Australia that we’d
never use it in a way that would be discarded in a few months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Built in
1891 the Petrin Tower, supposed to have been inspired by the Eifel Tower is a
63m tower on the top of one of the hill close to Prague Castle.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s just over 60m tall and you can climb up the
299 steps to the observation tower.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We
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light rain made it quite a cold walk across from the tower to the Strahov
Monestry and the early hour meant that Tony decided to forego a taste of the
beer brewed by the monks.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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decided not to check out the Loreta complex in favour of reaching the Castle
entrance in time for the noon changing of the guard.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A very sharply dressed group of soldiers
marched out of their barracks <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and down
to the entrance on Hradcany Square where a 10min ceremony takes place.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We got a lovely close-up look at their
uniforms, designed by the Czech costume designer from the film Amadeus (the
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courtyard, the massive façade of St Vitas Cathedral looms large.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s an extraordinary church – tall gothic
interior, walls filled with spectacular stained-glass windows and the most
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that the Old Palace was closed (we don’t read Czech so we really don’t know why)
we stopped for some lunch and then headed down the Golden Lane and then visited
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during winter but offering glimpses through the fence), past the Palace Gardens
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After his assignation in 1980 young Czech
pacifists painted his image and song lyrics in a mural on the wall.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>By the late 80’s it was becoming a site for
anti-governmental slogans and the government ordered it painted over. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The students repainted it and it has stayed –
ever changing <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>as new additions are made.
It was kinda cool to arrive just as a busker and the crowd (none of whom were
even born when Lennon was shot) were singing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was not cool to see how much recent crap
has been painted/scribbled/permanent-marker-ed etc over the original work…. Or maybe
that’s the essence of street art, that it’s always added to.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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the Peace Wall.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It seems the owners felt
the same way about the message of the wall and have made their own little piece
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">621 metres long and nearly 10 metres wide the bridge
construction began in 1357 and kept stonemasons and builders busy for more than
60years. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Lined with massive statues of
saints etc, and the ubiquitous vendors selling paintings and Prague magnets, it
was a great walk to end out visit.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We were both
very keen to avoid the hoards today.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>No
desire to get sandwiched between groups following flags on sticks, umbrellas,
stuffed toys on sticks or even drink bottles held aloft so we decided to
postpone our day on the castle side of Prague and look for something less
crowded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We started
with a walk from our hotel up to the Prague TV tower, passing the Catholic
Church of St Prokop on the way.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We'd seen
it late yesterday and were delighted to wander past just as mass was
finishing.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In a country where only 10% of
the population profess to follow the Catholic faith, Prague has a lot of
Catholic churches.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Congregation this
morning looked like it could have been counted on one hand.<span style="margin: 0px;"> The stained glass windows in St Prokop's were gorgeous.</span></span></div>
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we stopped for a quick look at the remnants of the Jewish Cemetery (the
majority of which had been destroyed in 1984 for the construction of the tower)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">A short walk
down hill from the hotel to the railway station where we took Metro line A to
Vysehrad.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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V<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">ysehrad (Czech for "upper castle") is
a historic fort, built in the 10th century, on a hill over the Vltava River. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>During the second half of the 11th century, Vratislav
(King of Bohemia) transferred his court from Prague Castle, and the original
fort was remodelled to accommodate him his family and court.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Our entry today was through the Leopold Gate - originally Prague had 14 entry gates when it was a walled city. All but 5 were removed in the mid-late 1800's ... in the name of progress, they needed to widen the roads and build bigger buildings.</span></span></div>
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P<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">art of the Royal complex, obviously included a church. This one, built around 1100 and remodelled in the
second half of the 14th century and again in 1885 to become the Basilica of St
Peter & St Paul dominates the area and has some of the most beautiful
interior painting I’ve ever seen.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
Treasury, while only small had a cool collection of reliquaries, liturgical
ornaments and a pair of pontifical embroidered goat-skin slippers from 1705.</span><br />
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Rotunda of St Martin from the 11th century – complete with canon -ball lodged
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maintained Vysehrad Cemetery.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was
really touching to see Christmas flowers & wreaths on so many of the
graves.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Among its residents is
the famous musician Antonín Dvořák.</span></div>
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was getting on towards dusk so we headed past the sweet little Ava Maria Chapel and up onto the ramparts for a quick photo
of the Vltava then down to the Brick Gate where we joined a tour of the
Casements and Gorlice Hall.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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French occupied Vysehrad in 1742 they built tunnels (or casements) inside the
ramparts as part of the defensive strategy at the time.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The tunnels we saw joined into the Gorlice
Hall – a massive area inside the ramparts that has had various uses including
an air-raid shelter during WW1 and potato storage.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It now houses 6 of the original statues from
the Charles Bridge which were removed to preserve them from weather and pollution
damage in the early 1990’s.</span></div>
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night the locals let off their fireworks – tonight the city put on their
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">New Years
Eve in Prague started in a fairly quiet & relaxed manner.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Breakfast was included at our hotel and then
we headed out on tram #9 for Wenceslas Square.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Two small Xmas markets were still running so we had a quick wander, surprised
at the people chugging back the Czech version of mulled wine at 10am.. Its a fairly unremarkable square, rectangular in reality and split in half by a tram line. The National Museum at the top of the square is under scaffolding while it undergoes a front facelift and the King Wenceslas himself sits atop his steed out the front.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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famed Astronomical Clock and another Christmas Market.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Dating from
1410, the Astrological Clock </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">has three main components: the
astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and
displaying various astronomical details; "The Walk of the Apostles",
a clockwork hourly show of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures;
and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The clock itself has recently undergone some
restoration work and the tower it is housed in is also currently covered in
scaffolding and sarlon. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
architecture round this part of town is gorgeous. Till now the streets had been
relatively quiet and we actually remarked on how ‘un-crowded’ it was….. oh boy!</span></div>
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coffee we headed away from the Old Town Square and explored some really sweet
little back alleys – each more surprising than the previous one.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We found the Powder Gate, build in 1475 it
was one of the 13 original gates that allowed entrance to the Old town of
Prague in the middle ages.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s name is
derived from the gunpowder stored there during the 17<sup>th</sup> century.</span></div>
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crowds were growing, we made our way back towards the famed St Nicholas
Church.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>By this stage the crowds were
growing and the tour groups dutifully trotted along behind their respective
coloured flags/umbrellas/dolls on sticks.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The beautiful St. Nicholas Church at the Old Town
Square has had a varied and somewhat fascinating history.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Completed in 1735, it replaced a parish
church mentioned in records dating back to 1273. The stunning Baroque interior was
supposedly inspired by the chapel of St. Louis-des-Invalides in Paris. In 1781
all interior decoration was removed on the orders of Emperor Joseph II and<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in 1870, St. Nicholas then became Russian
Orthodox.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>During WW2 Czech army units
began reinstating the decorations, working with local professional artists –
boy they did a great job. After the war, St. Nicholas was handed over to the
Czech Hussite movement.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I’ve always been fascinated by religious architecture and we’ve
visited temples, churches (all denominations) and mosques but I’ve never visited
a synagogue.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Today that changed when I
visited the tiny, very simple but old Old-New Synagogue.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Built during the late 1200’s it is the oldest
Jewish building in Prague.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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Danube … to escape the crowds we thought ….. wrong!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The views across the Danube to the Castle
side of the city are lovely – and everyone else visiting Prague for New Year
obviously thought the same.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He crowds on
th famous Charles Bridge were so thick human traffic appeared to be almost at a
standstill.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Yikes .. we took a few
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We’ve been hearing fireworks (mostly bungers) going off all
afternoon and having checked out the comments on the Trip Advisor forum about
where to see in the New Year we decided dinner and watching other cities
fireworks on TV was the go.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Prague does
their big municipal display a 6pm on New Years Day (so families can enjoy them)
and places like Wenceslas Square are variously described as everything from
madness to ‘the wild west on steroids’ as the locals set off their own
fireworks.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Having experienced DIY
fireworks in Munich with Lauren in 2012/13 we really have no desire to do it
again. </span></div>
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of business today was to confirm our seats for tomorrow’s train to Prague.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a 7hr trip and we did not want to find
ourselves sitting one behind the other.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We
caught the metro to the main Keleti station and found ourselves at a very
different part of the station from where we’d first seen on arrival on
Wednesday.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>While still in need of
ongoing TLC – the main entrance is actually gorgeous and the metro platforms
are all modern and very clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Seats sorted
we took the metro back to the last station before the Danube so we could visit
St Stephens Basillica.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It had been on
yesterday’s Pest itinerary but we spent so much time at the National Museum
that we ran out of time.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">N</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">amed in
honour of Stephen, the first King of Hungary (c 975–1038), whose supposed right
hand is housed in the reliquary, it was consecrated in 1905 having taken 54
years to build.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Having seen the interior
I am not surprised.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Opulent doesn’t come
close – coloured marble, gold leaf, a gorgeous painted domed ceiling and an
utterly spectacular portrait of the Black Madonna. </span></div>
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wind made it a less than pleasant time so we headed for the Chain Bridge and
our way across the Danube.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Well rugged
up against a really feral wind, we walked across the bridge stopping in he
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the funicular up to the castle was long and slow moving but we had no desire to
trudge up the hill so we sucked it up and shuffled along till it was our turn. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Built in 1870, destroyed during WW2 and
re-built between 1975 – 85 it takes 24 passengers at a time up a 30deg hill in
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</span>Once we got out into the castle grounds, the sound of drumming caught
our attention.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The changing of the guard
outside the Sandor Palace (the official residence of the President of Hungary)
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other European castles, Buda Castle was always a work in progress.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The oldest parts date from around 1300 but in
the intervening years every king, queen, emperor and invader has added bits,
destroyed bits, rebuilt bits – its impossible to describe all the building and
rennos in a few lines.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It has been home
to Ottomans, Austrians, Hungarians but the massive Baroque palace we can see
today was built between 1749 and 1769.</span></div>
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destructions happened during the Seige of Budapest in 1945.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Work is ongoing and we saw current
reconstruction of the stables which when finished may well look like its been
there for 300 years.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The castle houses
the National Library, the Budapest History Museum and a swathe of government
offices.</span></div>
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castle confines and into the ‘town’ part of Castle Hill (hehe) through some
really lovely pretty streets (there you go with the two faces thing again) and
a lunch stop before heading towards St Matthias Church and the gorgeous Fishermans
Bastion which sits atop the steep hill down to the Danube and provides mazing
views of the Parliament building across the river.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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top of the castle walls past City Hall, the Mary Magdalene Tower (all that
remains of a 14<sup>th</sup> century church bombed in 1945) and back to the
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Back to the
Pest side by #16 bus and a beer (and a meat & cheese platter for dinner) at
the Longford Irish Pub and we headed home.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Weary and a bit footsore but delighted with todays touristing.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Those damn two faces again – gorgeous Buda,
grubby Pest (except for the areas right close to the Danube) but acknowledging
that Hungary has only been a democracy since 1990 and their financial pie has a
lot to go round.… Budapest you’ve surprised us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Two faces of
Pest.....<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I said last night that Budapest
was a city of two faces, and we saw more of it today.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If you are close to the Danube, tourist areas
etc the buildings are in great condition, clean painted etc but you only have
to venture off the track a few blocks and the decrepit state of some facades is
so evident.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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several dozen of them in fact.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So many buildings
really could benefit from a jolly good wash! It does however have some pretty cool street art. </span></div>
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grey doors closed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Just a bit pissed
because a) I had checked online that they were open and b) the sign said ‘open
Tuesday – Sunday’ and today being Thursday it should have been open. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Another potential visitor arrived just as Tony
pulled the door unlocked open to see if there was anyone inside.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A man appeared, swung open the inner glass
door and growled ‘we’re closed.’ <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As I
tried to point out that the sign said it should be open he was even ruder – ‘that
doesn’t matter, we’re closed’ … hmmmmm great way to get garner support from a
gentile.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I’ll be leaving them a little
message on their review page!</span></div>
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itinerary item was stymied so next stop was the Hungarian National Museum
just<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>short stroll way.<span style="margin: 0px;"> We passed the amazing (but in need of TLC) Museum of Decorative arts on the way</span></span></div>
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extraordinary collection of all things Hungarian tracing the story of the
people of Hungary from bronze age to 1990. Bronze pots, weapons and tomb treasures
right through <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>gold buckles and jewellery
from the 10<sup>th</sup> century to the Austro Hungarian Empire to the fall of
the eastern bloc and the end of the Warsaw Pact in 1990.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All beautifully set out featuring artefacts,
documentation, paintings & photos etc and a bigger bonus ..... all co-labelled in English.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved these Cicada buckles form the 7th century</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A gold and silver Torah shield from 1794</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sample board from the Hungarian Bot Factory circa 1880</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just one display case chronicling the Jewish people in Hungary - I imagine they feel the Holocaust Memorial Centre has the lead on this - what a shame we couldn't see it! .. grrr!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Highlight if you are a classical music fan is a piano once belonging to Beethoven. This gem was made in the UK in 1816-17 and given to Franz Liszt by an admirer who bought it from Beethoven's estate. In 1873 Liszt donated it to the Hungarian National Museum. </span></div>
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ages in the museum before wandering down to the Danube for the fantastic views
across to the Buda side which we plan to explore tomorrow.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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the Danube’ which commemorates the 3500 Budapest residents (including about 800
Jews) <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>shot by the <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">fascist Arrow Cross militiamen in
Budapest during World War II. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and
were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and
were carried away.</span></div>
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sculpture is very close to the magnificent Hungarian Parliament Building so we
stopped here before heading in search of a very late lunch (it was going on for
4pm) which actually turned into afternoon tea.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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styles.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>N one corner you’ll have
something built during the mid-late 1800’s all grand and ornate and right next
door or across the street is something from the soviet era – blocky, stocky chunky
solid and you can imagine it being designed by some big weightlifter turned
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Liszt
Academy is just round the corner from our apartment – I snuck in for a photo of
the stunning foyer.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Tonight we’re
going to try the Mazel Tov Jewish restaurant and ruin bar almost next door to
our block and tomorrow we'll explore the Buda side of the Danube.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: calibri;"></span>aussie purplegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514120318116670286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143208834209299488.post-59182194386981158712017-12-27T12:50:00.003-08:002017-12-27T12:53:08.246-08:00Budapest ... two faces of one city<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Day 27</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Another foggy start to the day. But as soon as we left the
Vienna surrounds it lifted.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Not that it
mattered much because somehow I forgot to make seat reservations for the
train.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We had tickets but no assigned
seats.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We ended up sitting one behind
the other on aisle seats so no pics of the scenery.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We passed through gentle rolling land,
obviously used mainly for agriculture.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>It reminded me a lot of the area between Goulbourn and Lake George.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We also passed a massive wind farm – go Austria!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Budapest Keleti station is a dowager in decline.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>What was once probably a magnificent building
is now a sad, shabby vision of its former self.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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pedalled up on his bike and introduced himself.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He let us into the buildings central courtyard and up to the flat.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s recently renovated and very spacious
with a mezzanine bedroom.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The internal courtyard - the exterior of the building gives no clues to the loveliness within</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After settling in we headed out to explore the neighbourhood
and find the Christmas Market at Vorosmarty Square that Maurizio had told us
about. We’re in the old Jewish Quarter and passed a stack of Kosher markets and
restaurants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The architecture of this part of Budapest is unlike anything
we saw in any of the other cities we’ve visited.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It has a heavy blocky feel about it –
reminiscent of buildings we saw in East Berlin.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>And the contrast between pre and post WW2 buildings is really striking
too.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Not entirely surprising when you
consider that Hungry was part of the Eastern Bloc for decades.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big blocky chunky buildings...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...contrast with buildings from an earlier era.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We also passed a Trabbie .. not something I ever imagined I’d
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Approaching the main shopping district, the whole feel of
the city changed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We could have been in
Paris or Vienna – Shopping Street was lined with the same high end shops as the
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currently wearing her Christmas face.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A
lovely market with a huge variety of stalls selling food, gifts, beer &
mulled wine decorations, jewellery, hats etc.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Trying to match other major European cities, Budapest has a
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Yesterday had been gloriously sunny with clear blue skies – today dawned cold, and overcast and stayed that way the whole day.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>According to the thermometer app on Tony’s phone Vienna was 2-3deg for most of the day.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Thankfully no wind to make it feel even colder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We headed off after breakfast, first stop the Haputbahnhof to convert our confirmation email into tickets and then walked towards the Belvedere Palaces.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Modern Vienna is springing up all round this part of the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Belvedere Palaces were built in the late 1600’s and early 1700’s as a summer palace by Prince Eugen of Savoy with money he had earned for his part in the defeat of the Turks in 1683. Prince Eugen died in 1736 it was passed to his niece and in 1752 it was acquired by Empress Maria Theresa.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In </span><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In 1776 Maria Theresa and her son, Emperor Joseph II transferred the Imperial Picture Gallery to the Upper Belvedere. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was however, the Lower Belvedere that continued to grow as an art museum.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Various collections were transferred there throughout the first 2/3 of the 1800’s before many of the were moved to the newly built Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum) in 1889. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In 1896 Emperor Franz Joseph I decided that the Upper Belvedere should serve as a residence for, his nephew Franz Ferdinand and the palace was remodeled as his residence. After WW1 and the end of the Hapsburg rule, both Palaces were nationalised and returned slowly to gallery space for the Austrian National Collection. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The palaces suffered considerable damage during World War II. Parts of the Marble Hall in the Upper Belvedere and the Hall of Grotesques in the Lower Belvedere were destroyed by bombs. After reconstruction work was completed, the Österreichische (Austrian History) Galerie reopened in the upper palace in 1953.</span></span></div>
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aussie purplegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514120318116670286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143208834209299488.post-57493947320115244452017-12-25T12:42:00.000-08:002017-12-25T12:42:02.965-08:00Vienna turns on the sun
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Late last
night we made some of our Christmas phone calls.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We’re using European SIM cards (beats the
$5/day roaming fee that Optus would charge .. that gets completely out of hand
on a 50+ day trip) but it was only when we tried to phone our respective mums
that we realised our cards appear to not be enabled for international calls! Grrr!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We spoke to
Lauren & Ainsley via messenger and they relayed Christmas wishes to both
grandmothers. Yesterday had been fine but cold and quite windy but today was even better. Intense, cloudless blue skies and no wind made for the next best thing after missing out on a white Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We had a very
leisurely day planed – breakfast at the apartment then a train to Schonbrunn Palace.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></i>We
had a reservation for lunch but little else planned and just wanted a relaxing
day wandering the grounds etc.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So did
thousands and thousands of others!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
train disgorged a wave of tourists and we shuffled our way along with them from
the station to the palace gates.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Schonbrunn Palace</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> is a
former imperial summer residence of the long ruling Hapsburgs.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It In 1569 by Emperor Maximillian II bought a
swathe of land outside Vienna that had a ‘small’ hunting lodge on it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This lodge ended up being destroyed by the
Turks and in 1695 Emperor Leopold I had a grand residence built. The palace as
it is today (a sumptuous 1400 room complex) is mostly the result of re-building
and remodeling overseen by Empress Maria Theresa who had been given the estate as a
wedding gift, during the 1740’s & 50’s.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Ainsley & Dan – don’t get any ideas!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In 1775 she decided she needed a ‘little something’ to
glorify the power of the Hapsburgs.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
Gloriette is the result.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sitting on top
of a hill overlooking the palace, its extensive park and the wonderful formal
gardens it was destroyed in the Second World War, but had already been restored
by 1947, and was restored again in 1995.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>We had lunch in the Gloriette Café.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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formality of the buildings are reflected in an amazing park and gardens – grand
alleys radiate out from strategically placed fountains.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These vistas end with more statues and
follies.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The trees are heavily pleached/pollarded
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and short beech hedges surround the
larger groups of trees.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It would be
utterly gorgeous in spring & summer.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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and the glasshouses that provide the annuals planted out for spring displays
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Neptune Fountain punctuates the vista between the Palace and the Gloriette</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This grand room was used for gala events including concerts - Mozart played here as a 6yr old!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After our
tour we headed out into the forecourt to check out the Christmas Market.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I added to my Christmas decoration collection
and in Christmas Market tradition (started in Germany in 2012) also got a Gluwein
mug – although I had coffee in mine because I’m not a huge fan of Gluwein. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>By 4pm it was getting cold and the sun was all
but set so we escaped the swarming masses (and more pouring in) and headed back
to the flat.</span></div>
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that many places would be closed, we headed out in search of some dinner.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Just down the road was an open café, and they
had schnitzel on the menu.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In we went
and ended up eating in one of Vienna’s oldest café’s, the 1895 Café Frey. And their
schnitzels were huge and really good!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We
waddled back to the apartment.</span></div>
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back in full tourist mode with plans to visit the Belvedere (especially the Klimt
exhibition) </span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>aussie purplegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514120318116670286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143208834209299488.post-13240379689902385052017-12-24T11:13:00.001-08:002017-12-24T11:13:43.713-08:00Christmas Eve in Vienna<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Our original
plans for today were to visit the Hofburg Palace (Imperial Apartments, Sisi
Museum and Silver Cabinet) but we were both beginning to feel a little ‘historical
sited out” and we are going to the Schonbrunn Palace tomorrow and the Belvedere
on Tuesday so we just decided to head into the old centre of the city and see
what we found.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">So it was
back onto the trusty Line #1 Ubahn at the Hauptbahnhof and off at Stephansplatz
– just one stop closer into the centre than yesterday.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Stephans Dom (St Stephans) is incredibly
beautiful outside – ornately tiled roof and carvings & statues outside that
continue to amaze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Belonging to the Order of the Teutonic Knights it was
originally built in the 14<sup>th</sup> century and restored in the 1720’s and
again after WW2.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Given it was both a
Sunday and Christmas Eve it wasn’t surprising that access was very limited and
we only got a little way in (along with the throng of others wanting to see
inside). These photos are taken through the barrier erected to keep the great unwashed out of the main body of the church today.</span></div>
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for gorgeous horse drawn carriages which the tourists flock to.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The horses are beautiful and generally in
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the most glorious winter blue.</span></div>
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towards the city centre we wandered quite aimlessly along streets as they took
our fancy. We passed through the Jewish quarter, past an old section of the original city walls and stopped to admire the Anker
Clock – completed in 1914 it was commissioned by the Anker Insurance
company.<span style="margin: 0px;"> I also couldn't resist this display of Steiff Teddy Bears - so I snapped off a couple of pictures for my friend Jo (cos I know she will be so jealous)</span></span></div>
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I was NOT expecting THIS!” moments.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>St
Peters Catholic church had the most ornate interior of any church we’ve come
across.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>And, as an added bonus, an organ
concert was scheduled to start shortly after we arrived.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These two dirty little heathens sat for
almost an hour and listened to the most incredible organ recital and gaped,
open-mouthed at the incredible beauty of the interior of this stunning church.</span></div>
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unearthed Roman ruins sitting meekly in front of the grandiose entrance to the Hofburg
Palace.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We wandered through and into the
massive courtyard with its statue of Kaiser Franz I, past the Austrian National
Library with the Prince Eugene statue and out onto the Ringstrasse again,
directly opposite Maria-Theresian Platz Christmas Market.</span></div>
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train and one last Chrsitmas Eve look at the lights along the Kartener Ring. Too
late for Carols by Candlelight from Melbourne but we did have ham, cheese,
olives, wine etc for dinner.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Happy Christmas
from Vienna.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">By the time
we got into Vienna, got the train from the airport to the Hauptbahnhof and made
our way to the Airbnb apartment there wasn’t much of Friday left.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We had dinner at a little Asian place down
the road – massive menu – Chinese, sushi, Thai etc. Their red curry chicken was
nice but really didn’t taste like the red curry chicken we know from Thailand
or home.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A visit to the Belvedere Xmas
Market after dinner and we called stumps on Friday.</span></div>
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today were really fluid – we didn’t have any specific places on our sightseeing
agenda so we wandered over to the station and hoped on the #1 Ubahn train into
the centre of Vienna.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The plan was just
to walk the ‘Ring’ and see what we found. Similar to the Paris metro, the stations are underground and some have to be accessed with super steep and long escalators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">First one we
came upon was Karlskirche .. and beside it … a Christmas market.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Not many of the stalls were open but there
were plenty of families out and the kids were having a great time in the straw
round the little farmyard exhibit.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Todays two useless bit of information .. goats will eat christmas tree, and some Christmas Markets are so big they require a map.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In the 13<sup>th</sup>
century the heart of Vienna had been surrounded by a wall with an area about
500m wide kept clear of buildings & trees as part of the defence strategy. By
the late 1700’s these fortifications had become obsolete and in </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In 1857,
Emperor Franz Joseph ordered the demolition of the city walls and moats. In his
decree, he laid out the exact size of the boulevard, as well as the
geographical positions and functions of the new buildings…. And the Ringstrasse
was born.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a beautiful road, with
two rows of trees down the middle and lined with grand buildings.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A popular tourist option is a carriage ride
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face with the mirror facades of the Kunshistoriches Museum (Historic Art Museum)
and the Natural History Museum with Maria Theresia Platz and another Christmas
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currently undergoing renovations.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They
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like a small park.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Turns out this was
the edge of the Rathaus Christmas Market in front of Vienna’s incredible City
Hall and opposite the imposing Burg Theatre.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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market – which, by the way puts everything we saw in France thoroughly to
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to bite.<span style="margin: 0px;"> Real temp probably about 5deg, feels like ...2deg. </span>Imagine just how utterly
astonished we were to see a wedding party posing for their photos … the girls
in the bridal party were in strapless gowns!</span></div>
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Tea from school says Vienna is the most beautiful city in Europe … I can see
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