Triburg, Black Forest, and Frankfurt Update
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Ok, so I haven’t updated this in a while, and someone asked how my pool game went, so I figured I’d do an update of the last week and a half…
I did play pool against Theresa, but thankfully, after having to reschedule it for a couple days later, the competativeness wore off and we were able to have a nice fun game instead of me getting into the super competative mode. I was able to do fine with my B game with each of us winning a couple games. Thankfully, no feelings of emasculation followed.
Then on the weekend I decided to take a quick jaunt down to the Triburg which is situated in the middle of the Black Forest. For the most part, the only thing Triburg is really known for is having Germany’s highest waterfalls. I’ve always wanted to check out that Black Forest and Triburg ended up being a nice starting point.
I arrive around 7:00am on Saturday, which in the middle of October, isn’t really a very good idea. It must have been like 20 degrees outside. Even the glass on the phone booths were iced over. I walked around for a while hoping to find a place where I could warm up, but nothing was open, so I figured if I was going to freeze my ass off, I might as well do it hiking around the Black Forest. I didn’t realize that I’d have to do a 4km hike through the town just to get to the entrance. The good part was that since it was so early, there was no cashier there, so I got in free. Plus no one else was there, so I got a good 3 and a half hours of hiking in before I saw another person.
After that I headed for Triburg’s Black Forest museum and checked out all their cookoo clocks. Before heading out I stopped by a cafe and had some Black Forest cake. Apparently it was the oldest cafe in Triburg, and was owned by the son of the apprentice to the creator of the Black Forest cake. Plus it was still made with the same recipe as the original in 1915. So after coffee and cake, I headed back to the train station and headed north.
I ended up in Frankfurt for a little while. After wandering around for a while, I found myself at the Goethe House. I’m a fairly big fan of Goethe. I like Faust, and one of my favorite poems is Der Erlkonig. Anyways, I got to spend about an hour there before returning to the train station to head back to Luneburg. Before I did, I checked out the art gallery and got to see one of my favorite paintings, Der Nachtmahr by Fusseli. Keri thinks its very creepy, but I love it. I’ve been spending the last week trying to find a poster of it to hang above my bed. No luck so far.
Other than that, not much else going on. I had planned on spending this weekend in Copenhagen, but I’ve had issues sleeping recently, and don’t really have the energy. I’m thinking I’ll hit up the flea market tomorrow and then head out for Luneburg’s „Club Night“. Lots of bands in lots of bars throughout the city and all admission is free. At least I chose a decent weekend to stay in town…
Also, I’m currently working on uploading my pics, so I’ll be updating the last couple posts with links to them. It takes a while, so I’ll probably finish tomorrow.
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