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« Reply #30 on: 09:48:41, 28-09-2008 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 09:39:17, 28-09-2008
Streets signs are never visible when I want to see them, in any country.

Yes, or there are too much of them on the same spot:



Needless to say: this is Belgium! Cheesy
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« Reply #31 on: 15:35:22, 28-09-2008 »
And here in the back garden of Richard and Cosima Wagner's Bayreuth home, Villa Wahnfried, is their grave.  I half expected the Wagners to decorate their garden with gnomes (sitting on toadstools, forging rings, brewing poison, fishing, etc) but I was disappointed


Sancho is wearing suede blouson (Next), khaki bags (Gap) Specialised walking shoes that he is always on would be Good for Me.  Umbrella on loan from the hotel Goldener Hirsh, Bayreuth.
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« Reply #32 on: 17:23:02, 28-09-2008 »
I think Ted Ryder recommended the baroque opera house at Bayreuth.  I am really disappointed that it was not having a guided tour at a convenient time during our brief stay in the town, not least so I could say something at the end about how it was such a pleasure to visit a genuine opera house.  (I know Wagner was a genius, and gives a lot of pleasure and inspiration to many, but I found so much of the man made me react against him.)

We gave Villa Wahnfried a miss and visited Liszt's home next door, a sort of granny flat for the dreadful Cosima's dad.  The sound system was playing Jorge Bolet, which I found very soothing.
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« Reply #33 on: 12:45:59, 29-09-2008 »
And here's the gay, Bavarian answer to Balmoral
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« Reply #34 on: 13:07:40, 29-09-2008 »
That looks familiar! Smiley
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« Reply #35 on: 13:35:44, 29-09-2008 »
Hello, timsnow.  (Trying to find alternatives to tinners.  Not sure that works.  You're definitely not a Tim - although I know of at least two Tims on this board, and Thoroughly Good Eggs they both are.)

You might recognise it from the Disney movie of Sleeping Beauty, if you weren't watching really grown up stuff at a young age.

Disney copied the design from Schloss Newschwanstein, the last and most picturesque castle built by Wagner's seriously unbalanced patron, Ludwig II of Bavaria.  It looks better in post cards taken from a helicopter.  You do not get the breathtaking setting close up.

The interior can only be viewed on timed guided tours in German, and even if we were remotely fluent in the language of Goethe and Schiller, we judged it not worth the wait.  From the postcards, the interiors looked very heavy.

It is build rather stylishly at the exact point where the Alps rise out of the plain, overlooking a lake.  Kitsch, yes, but memorable.

It is possible to climb beyond the castle to a bridge where you get a fantastic view.  We climbed there and then I got cold feet.  The bridge was three wobbly planks wide, over a very deep ravine, and crowded with tourists.  Also that side of the castle was covered in scaffolding.

Flickr's down at the moment, so I can't give another view.

Ludwig's picture is ubiquitious in Bavaria.  They seem to have forgotten they deposed him for perfectly creditable reasons.
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« Reply #36 on: 13:43:44, 29-09-2008 »
Flikd back on.

Here's Neuschwanstein from the car park



Ludwig only lived there a few months.  On a neigbouring peak there is his father's pad of Hohenschwangau, which he built up.  Here it is viwed from the path above Neuschwanstein  with the car park, ticket office, gift stalls, bars, etc in between the two castles.  Note the lakes.



I'd have liked to visit Ludwig's third castle at Lindhof, near Oberammergau, which has a garden shed decked out as Hunding's Hut, and other Wagnerian follies, but there wasn't time.
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« Reply #37 on: 16:35:51, 29-09-2008 »
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Am I the only one thinking "Hogwarts with gingerbread"?
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« Reply #38 on: 16:53:30, 29-09-2008 »
Nice one, kitty.  Hadn't thought of that.  I read the final H Potter volume on holiday, and was glad not to have more of the jolly japes in the dorm stuff of the earlier volumes.

Both Ms Rowlings' plots are as ingenious and her (adult) characterisation are as cliched as Agatha Christie, and the satire deriving from magic in a normal world becomes a bit formulaic, but there is something big there about fear of death either being overcome by love, or leading to Voldmort's tyrrany.

The characterization of Harry and his two friends are compelling.
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« Reply #39 on: 21:29:24, 29-09-2008 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 15:35:22, 28-09-2008
And here in the back garden of Richard and Cosima Wagner's Bayreuth home, Villa Wahnfried, is their grave.  I half expected the Wagners to decorate their garden with gnomes (sitting on toadstools, forging rings, brewing poison, fishing, etc) but I was disappointed


Isn't that a gnome on the left there? Roll Eyes Wink
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« Reply #40 on: 22:08:39, 29-09-2008 »
All my friends read Harry Potter. I made myself read the first one because friend's daughter insisted I read it.
Now I am going to borrow them all one by one from the library.

Thank you, don Basilio. You had a great trip. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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« Reply #41 on: 22:33:05, 29-09-2008 »
Ludwig's castle was used in Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, no?

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« Reply #42 on: 11:34:34, 30-09-2008 »
A few miles North of the Königschlößer (Royal Castles - please correct my German if need be) there is the pilgrimage church of Die Wies, and here it is in the Bavarian countryside with cows with cow bells all around:


The books say it is not so much baroque as rococo.

That means the interior looks like this:

 
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« Reply #43 on: 12:01:21, 30-09-2008 »
And since today, 30 September, is the feast of St Jerome, here is the statue of Jerome from Die Wies

He produced the standard Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate, and by all accounts was an extremely conscientious scholar in doing so.  The statue here anachronistically shows him wearing a cardinal's hat, and looking more elegant than he probably was: from bits I've heard he should be the patron saint of waspish scholars.
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« Reply #44 on: 12:51:38, 30-09-2008 »
St Pauline church in Trier has similar interier.
I thought it was too much of things happening at the same time.
What do they call this style?


St. Pauline church in Trier, Germany
This church was build in 19th century if I am not mistaken.
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