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Showing posts with label urban sights beyond Berlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban sights beyond Berlin. Show all posts
ancient grandeur
flying horse
Time for Sunday travel and a picture and memory from a beautiful and colorful fall walk during my time in Providence (RI, US): my encounter with a 'flying horse', an art installation in a tree that recycled soft drink bottles, wrappers of sweets and snacks packagings.
golden fall II
True, this pic is a little blurred, but I had to share this beautiful colored tree, spotted in Neuruppin.
Hitchcock's sun
This week's Sunday travel leads to Zadar, Croatia, where in May 1964 Alfred Hitchcock observed:
"Zadar
has the most beautiful sunset in the world, more beautiful than the one
in Key West, in Florida, applauded at every evening."
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I will never forget the music of the sea organ and the magical light that the huge solar mirror produced - especially now that fall is coming.
kids & dogs: reaching for the stars
The last time I have been to Moscow was two years ago and I still have very colourful memories of a visit to the Монумент «Покорителям космоса» (Monument to the Conquerors of Space) and to the former VDNKh (now All Russia Exhibition Center) - particularly of that little girl 'shaking hands' with Yuri Gagarin ...
... and of that moving story of Laika, the famous first dog in space who had paid her visit with her life - unlike her fellow space travel mates Belka and Strelka who safely returned back home to live a happy dog life. One of their puppies was even given to the Kennedys as a present to the US by the Soviet Union.
pilgrimage to Mecklenburg
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As you might have guessed, my preferred mode of transportation is walking - closely followed by a ride on a train.
And of course, Berlin offers a wide range of walking trails that encourage you to slow your pace and enjoy, to let your mind wander, to look around:
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- on the 66-Lakes-Trail you can literally walk around Berlin - the trail is about 400km long, so it might take you three weeks to a month to complete the mission
- the ancient Way of Saint James crosses the Eastern German countryside: follow the yellow shell on blue ground and you might end up in Santiago de Compostela one day in early winter
- and then there is the pilgrims' way Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, which uses a sign easily confounded with the Saint James scallop
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| Way Mecklenburgische Seenplatte | Way of Saint James source: pilgern.ch |
A couple of days ago I walked on the pilgrim's way Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (first, to be honest, I assumed to be walking the Way of Saint James - it was an amazing walk all the same) and was impressed by the stunning beauty of the lake scenery in that area. You could almost physically feel the silence.
The way passes through the small village of Mirow from where I took the train back to Berlin.
The first part of that route surprised me with a unique (re-)discovery of slowness of its own:
At one point the ancient carriage that connects Mirow and Neustreelitz stopped at a railroad crossing. The train driver got off the train to close the barriers manually by turning a simple crank, then hopped in again to get us across the road, then stopped again to get off and open the barriers.
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