Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Jim, it was a very enjoyable trip and a great place to visit. Cheers Douglas On 04.11.2012 01:15, Jim Nichols wrote: > Douglas, > > Thanks you for the wonderful travelogue. Classic > architecture, great, moody cloud cover, and good > coverage of Frauke and her work. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp" > <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> > To: <leicareflex at freelists.org>; "LUG" > <lug at leica-users.org>; <leicareflex at freelists.org> > Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 6:31 PM > Subject: [Leica] IMG: New Gallery - recent trip to > Eisenach > > >> For the whole gallery without the little travelogue >> (and more than just the selected shots) - click on >> this link: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/?g2_page=1 >> >> and work your way through it (it's more or less >> chronological). >> >> Here's a selection. >> >> The city of Eisenach simply in the state of >> Thuringia simply oozes history. >> >> It's the birthplace and home of Johann Sebastian Bach: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4417.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4420.jpg.html >> >> >> The city where Martin Luther went to school: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0046.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0050.jpg.html >> >> >> Where composer Richard Wagner spent many a holiday: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0036.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4489.jpg.html >> >> >> Home of the Wartburg, where Martin Luther was hidden >> from the Catholics and translated the Latin Bible >> into German: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4541.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0103.jpg.html >> >> >> Home of the memorial to the members of the student >> movement (Corps) and others who were killed in the >> struggle for a united Germany between 1864 to 1871 - >> the architecture is said to be based on a beer >> "stein" - fencing and beer still play an enormous >> role in student corps: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0095.jpg.html >> >> >> Anyway, Jens, a friend of mine for over 35 years >> invited us down to Eisenach and asked my Missus, >> Frauke, to read from her first book and present the >> second in his bookshop: >> >> Getting there: >> >> We never use the autobahn, so we take the scenic >> routes and make a couple of stops along the way. >> >> The first was for a coffee in Einbeck, a small town >> famous for its brewing excellence - the name "Bock" >> for a kind of beer is derived from the ancient name >> of Einbeck, "Einb?ck". >> >> The old brewery - "Brauhaus": >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4400.jpg.html >> >> The Marktplatz: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4403.jpg.html >> >> >> Our hotel in Eisenach - recommendable -very clean >> and comfortable family hotel with wonderful >> K?stritzer black beer on draught and excellent steaks: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4501.jpg.html >> >> >> The city has lots of narrow streets with a mixture >> of historical and modern buildings - from 15th >> century, baroque, renaissance, Imperial and >> Jugendstil to GDR-utility and modern developments >> after German reunification: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0003.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4478.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4498.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4510.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4513.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4511.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0038.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0040.jpg.html >> >> >> >> Jens: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0008.jpg.html >> >> >> Jens & Frauke: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0012.jpg.html >> >> >> Bookshop (and Frauke): >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4465.jpg.htm >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4470.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0021.jpg.html >> >> >> The "reading": >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0021.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0068.jpg.html >> >> >> More travelogue of our third and last day and the >> trip back home tomorrow. >> Hope you enjoy them >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >> more information >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information > >