Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nathan, Agree, agree, thank you!:-) Cheers Douglas On 09.11.2012 21:18, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Lovely place, lovely Frauke, lovely pictures! > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > > On Nov 4, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > >> 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 > >