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| Sweetie Break with Coffee |
What a wonderful day, a walk in the Elm Forest with Monika, my email partner (left in red) and a group of her friends. We walked about 5 miles in all and up to a Beer Garden for a meal and a pint, and then visited the small town of Koenigslutter with its huge Romanesque Cathedral.
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| Half Timbered Houses |
I will have return to the town, as this visit was just a taster for me. I need to read up about the place and then go back and savour its delights. The town is on the "Half Timbered Houses of Germany" Route, a journey from southern Germany visiting all the best examples of these old houses. Brunswick must have been a similar town until its destruction in the last war.
The cathedral was breath taking, the colour, the wall paintings, the monuments, the pillars and the cloisters. Our guide left me confused with his explicit history of Romanesque architecture and details of the carved pillars in the cloister, all in complicated German and much too fast for me. We all had a wonderful time, even the Welsh Terrier dog, who ran all the way there and back and had a whale of a time in the woods. In the group picture he is sitting (right) patiently waiting for his dog biscuit.
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| High Altar, Kaiserdom, Koenigslutter. |
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