On the road again! This year's four day holiday with the Timmerlah residents took the group to the industrial Ruhr Valley. The whole area is part of the "European Route of Industrial Heritage" containing coal mines, old iron and steel works, blast furnaces and of course, the Gasometer, which at 117.5 meters, the tallest in Europe. It was built in 1927/1929 to hold gas for the Oberhausen iron works. The enormous inner space is an exhibition centre and the present theme is "Magical Places," photographs and objects from the most mystical and significant places around the world. I found a gigantic photo of Stonehenge, so Wiltshire is represented! The most poignant exhibit for me was a watch found in the ruins of Hiroshima which stopped at 08.15 on August 6th 1945, the moment the bomb was dropped. www.gasometer.de www.wikipedia.org has info: Gasometer Oberhausen. In the centre space stood a huge concrete model of a giant Rainforest tree, lit from varying angles, and with rainforest sounds playing, it looked very spectacular. An all glass lift took visitors up to the top. I made the mistake of leaving Mother Earth, but hid at the back of the lift, closed my eyes and crossed my fingers that German lift technology would not let me down. It didn't and I emerged into blue sky and sunshine at the top and walked down the hundreds of steps to the bottom.
The photo below shows the steps down, and the bottom photo shows, viewed from the top, our little coach waiting for us in the coach park. It is a place worth visiting if anyone is ever that way. In late afternoon we left for our hotel and arrived at 17.15.
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