Sunday, October 19, 2008

Saturday and a trip to the Former Cistercian Monastery Kloster Eberbach

Saturday starts off with fog coming off the River Main, becuase it was cold over night and it starts getting warm when the sun comes out.



The flee market has one of those fiber glass light thingies, that I rather like.


Oh no, guy looking at me while I take a photo!


Later he looks away like I am not there and nothing happened because that is the unspoken way of things in the city.


The Frankfurt Skyline I can't seem to tire of.


The Family I am staying with was kind enough to drive me into the country today for a visit to the Cistercian Monastery: Kloster Eberbach










We hiked up the hill a ways, and well, this was the view:


View inside the monastery which was built around 1100, you can imagine Monks living in a place like this dormatory style.


A rather striking image of the Virgin Mary.


A statue with no hands, but I think really it is coz people stole things like the hands at various times over the centuries.


A stained glass window, very old, around 1100 or so. It conforms to the law of the time that nothing in the church should have a fixed image or be very colorful...


Some views inside the Cathedral...The whole area of the Cathedral was used in the the film [u]The Rose[/u] mit Sean Connery.





Presses and barrels for making wine...


After touring the Monastary came wine tasting, and after that it was a trip to the IKEA mega mart, as large as SAMS club, and packed with all things Swedish! Like...

Meatballs!


Fish eggs in a tube!


And crisp bread, immer crisp bread!


View from the outside...


And there is Toys R Us!

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