Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi All, our two last days in Eisenach were taken up with a long hike up to the Wartburg with a group of friends. Here's Frauke waiting for the group arriving: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0081.jpg.html This is where we are headed for - the long way around: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4491.jpg.html The hikers: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4538.jpg.html A quick look back: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0085.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0085.jpg.html The castle in sight: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4540.jpg.html Tail-enders in the woods - living in Hannover (North German Plains) slows you down when it gets hilly. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4566.jpg.html Almost there: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4543.jpg.html Short pause for breath: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4561.jpg.html The view from the outer keep: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4560.jpg.html Click forward from here for views of and from the castle At this point we were much too shattered to do anything except drink lots of cool beer - it must be said that Frauke has two new hips and I had a strained Achilles tendon and a twisted knee even before we started, so the descent is virtually undocumented. Just a short stroll around town to look at where Martin Luther went to school: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0043.jpg.html Back down to the Stadtschloss and then back to the hotel for a well-earned beer and a steak. The first stop on the next day was in Duderstadt, one of the best-preserved timbered towns in northern Germany, for a coffee and a rest: Although it's called the "Ratskeller" "city council beer cellar), it's a very good Italian restaurant: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4575_001.jpg.html The market square conjures up all sorts of amusing stories - at one end is the Catholic church and at the other the Evangelical church: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0111.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0117.jpg.html The side streets all have their churches, too, including one with a corkscrew spire: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0119.jpg.html and the catholic end has a "saint on a stick" - usually not seen this far north, but Bavaria is full of them: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0126.jpg.html After leaving Duderstadt, we were followed by a nutcase in an Iveco truck who seemed to think that the numbers on speed signs mean the minimum speed you have to drive: We had about an hour of this guy on our back bumper and finally escaped into the car park of a well known hamburger chain: Diesel on our tail: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4572.jpg.html McD in Alfeld http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0136.jpg.html The trusty VW Polo that got us there and back http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0140.jpg.html The bloke who took the pictures - a quick snap in a hotel bathroom: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4429.jpg.html Cheers all, and thanks for looking Douglas