Friday we departed early for the longest day of driving for our whole trip, we left Tilburg at 7.15am and arrived in Prague at 7.30pm after having a bit of a break in a really gorgeous town in Germany called Quedlinburg. Of note this town was ruled by women for 800 years. King Heinrich I's widow, Mathilde, founded a convent for aristocratic women in 936 and their granddaughter became the ruler of the town as the Abbess in 966. The Abbesses of the convent ruled the city until 1802, when Napoleon invaded and disbanded the Abbey.
Really cool outdoor play equipment, that got put into good use by all the children.
Ahhh, what a life, sitting in the sun catching up with the family,
And going for walks with Opa!!
Amazing buildings in Quedlinburg, there were streets and streets of these wonderful buildings.
(I think I am running out of superlatives on this trip, there are just so many things that are "wonderful, amazing, awesome, gorgeous, wow, fantastic" and so on that it almost sounds repetitive, but we can assure you that this is not the case)
Case in point, photos below, when we walked into the square of Quedlinburg, everyone went "WOW" It was like walking into a fairy-tale,
Case in point, photos below, when we walked into the square of Quedlinburg, everyone went "WOW" It was like walking into a fairy-tale,
Doors, yes doors. Why have a picture of a door? Well this is only one of the multitude of "door photos" we have. Louise has this mild obsession of photographing doors, one day the reason will become clear to us as to why, so every interesting street we walk down will have at least one, if not all of its doors photographed.
And if you think this is a boring door, well you are wrong - just look at the date above this door, this could have been, may even have been with some wishful thinking one of the doors Luther was nailing things to, well the date is right, maybe not the door.
We drove past fields and fields of this yellow flowering plant while driving through Germany. Rapeseed, also known as rape, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae, cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed. It is the third-largest source of vegetable oil in the world where we get canola oil from
The yellow flowers are rapeseed, also known as rape, oilseed rape, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae, cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed. It is the third-largest source of vegetable oil in the world. Thanks for the update Opa Harry
ReplyDelete