North European Plain 25 - Germany/Quedlinburg 1 - Castle & grounds
May 14, 2021 20:49:00 #
May 14, 2021 21:35:24 #
srfmhg wrote:
Great set Joe. Looks like an amazing trip!
Thank you Mark, it was indeed quite an interesting drive, even better than what we hoped for.
May 16, 2021 13:09:09 #
lnl
Loc: SWFL
A beautiful town. I am looking forward to more of the houses. The castle is somewhat plain and doesn't bring much to my mind of what a castle should look like. I guess that's due to its older age!
May 16, 2021 14:54:02 #
lnl wrote:
A beautiful town. I am looking forward to more of the houses. The castle is somewhat plain and doesn't bring much to my mind of what a castle should look like. I guess that's due to its older age!
Quedlinburg is a nice town and you will see plenty of the houses. We could have used more time here. I agree, the castle is sort of plain, but we did like the garden as well as the view, and the castle served its purpose for protection of the inhabitants with its thick walls instead of entering a beauty contest.
May 16, 2021 21:10:31 #
GreyOwl40
Loc: Quebec City
Great set of photos of a beautiful town, Joe! Thankfully it survived the ravages of WWII. A photographer's paradise, I'm sure.
May 16, 2021 22:43:15 #
GreyOwl40 wrote:
Great set of photos of a beautiful town, Joe! Thankfully it survived the ravages of WWII. A photographer's paradise, I'm sure.
Thanks John for your appreciation. Quedlinburg has definitely a quaint beauty and most photographers would be quite happy landing there!
May 17, 2021 07:57:56 #
I really must thank you for the recent series of pictures: particularly yesterday's Quedlinburg. I love glimpses into the former East Germany. There were so many buildings on the verge of desolation - especially in Erfurt - on the verge of desolation, rescued by reunification. I have never been to Quedlinburg, and am mightily impressed.
I did get into Erfurt just a few weeks after reunification. The first impressions of 'westernisation' were adverts for cigarettes, a sex shop, and the lowest of Germany's gutter press newspapers. Embarrassing.
I did get into Erfurt just a few weeks after reunification. The first impressions of 'westernisation' were adverts for cigarettes, a sex shop, and the lowest of Germany's gutter press newspapers. Embarrassing.
May 17, 2021 11:49:34 #
Lingen wrote:
I really must thank you for the recent series of p... (show quote)
Thank you very much Lingen for dropping in on my ongoing tour through these lowlands. I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed these photos, particularly the set from Quedlinburg. I am still posting sets of Quedlinburg for a few more days and the overall tour will go on for a long time yet, eventually ending up over in western Poland, which has some very spectacular architecture as well. I hope you will find the time and interest to keep on looking at the new postings and welcome you to the tour - I believe this is the first time I see you posting a comment, if you are interested you might want to look at my inventory of previous tours from very different corners of the globe. Each post provides the link to go to my UHH inventory. Have a great day in sunny and warm Grenada - Joe
May 18, 2021 11:13:15 #
Alyn McConnaha
Loc: Lebanon, IN
Uncle Sam asked me stop in and check out things. It took almost 18 months to carry out my inspection! Then I moved on to Southern Germany. No one shot at me and I shot no one!! Beautiful "vacation." On Christmas eve, I went to a church and was the solitary soul there!
Alyn
Alyn
May 18, 2021 13:03:24 #
Alyn McConnaha wrote:
Uncle Sam asked me stop in and check out things. It took almost 18 months to carry out my inspection! Then I moved on to Southern Germany. No one shot at me and I shot no one!! Beautiful "vacation." On Christmas eve, I went to a church and was the solitary soul there!
Alyn
Alyn
Thank you Alyn for looking in on my ongoing travelogue and your interesting contribution. It's great to have an "Uncle" that sends you to far-away places and lets you check things out - we all should have uncles like that, as checking out other cultures can be lots of fun, especially when nobody is shooting at you and you don't have to shoot back! Too bad that this Christmas eve didn't work out for you, when I went to the mid-night service, our church was always chock-a-block full - try it again!
May 19, 2021 21:27:13 #
How exciting to have many sets of this place to "catch up" with!!
The architecture and landscapes are just stunning and well captured, as usual.
#4 calls to me in this set, but I enjoyed them all!
Rob
The architecture and landscapes are just stunning and well captured, as usual.
#4 calls to me in this set, but I enjoyed them all!
Rob
May 19, 2021 21:37:21 #
Umnak wrote:
How exciting to have many sets of this place to "catch up" with!!
The architecture and landscapes are just stunning and well captured, as usual.
#4 calls to me in this set, but I enjoyed them all!
Rob
The architecture and landscapes are just stunning and well captured, as usual.
#4 calls to me in this set, but I enjoyed them all!
Rob
That was a nice park on top of this castle hill, with good views. We actually did this on the morning of our departure day, we only had one night in Quedlinburg and needed the total time on the first day just to walk the streets and lanes and I am sure we didn't get to see it all. So we were very lucky that morning, to spend an hour or so up on that hill before heading for Magdeburg as a stopover and then to Berlin.
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