Thu 12.Jul.2012
Paris, Plauen, and Ljubljana
The monsoon season has slowed my rate of picture taking, and for that matter
you have already seen a lot of the obvious Bratislava sights in the past few
years. Meanwhile I still have about a page worth of flashback pictures from
mid May to mid June, when I was in about six places for a few days each.
Today's bill of fare:
* Paris the second time through, between Spain and Germany
* Plauen my destination in Germany,
site of the Grateful Deadhead gathering.
* Ljubljana after Nürnberg and Salzburg,
the third stepping stone to Croatia after the Plauen gathering.
Paris Again
Paris is not a destination this time - just a stepping stone, because
eastern Germany is too far from southwestern Spain to do as a single push.
What a great name for a bar; when something screws up, you can say, "Let's
go back to Plan B!".
Germany
Pit stop at an autobahn rest area in eastern Franken, climbing the
gently rolling, but steadily rising hills toward the former iron curtain,
and beyond it,
Saxony.
Brokedown Palace
A name some of us have given this old abandoned building in Plauen, near the
restored medieval malting house (Malzhaus), the now-thriving eatery
and cultural center where we gather each year.
At the Malzhaus, potted plants decorate the exit to ...
... the Beer Garden, which looks down a green wooded hillside. A huge
amount of Germany outside the cities looks like this.
After the weekend, some of us stopped for lunch together at a country inn,
where I found this pond in the garden.
Slovenia
Somehow I had a case of the blahs in Ljubljana this year.
Rather than pass them on to you, I'll let this ever-charming city speak
for itself.
This shade of pink appears to have been a popular color for buildings in
Habsburg times. Any city that used to be in the Austro-Hungarian Empire will
have its share of them.
Not all such buildings are as intricately painted as in downtown
Ljubljana.
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