More Pictures from Germany

While in and around Germany, I took many pictures. I already showcased some of my favorite buildings, but here, I must not leave out my pictures of other random European things.

One day we went to the Deutsches Science Museum (one of the premier Science Museums in the world) which was SO large, we didn't even see half of it in the 4 or so hours we were there. Regardless, the cell that we could walk into was great as was learning that the artwork from one of the strokes album covers is a physics electron experiment. Other great things was learning about a plant that takes algae and sunlight to make biodiesel, a huge chess game and a cameo of the BMS building in Munich.
Also, it was pretty weird to see bucky-balls in Salzburg in the oddest places. There was one in the middle of a traffic circle with a pear tree growing out of it (which I don't understand how they thought of that) and another one that didn't have the right proportions of carbon atoms and so it didn't quite fit right so they had it lying all over the place. It was pretty great, but unexpected.

On a different note, there were random things that were entertaining also, such as: the dressmaking shop with really modern looking traditional dirndls. I don't know when I would need one of those, or have the money to pay for it, but I really liked the display case. Furthermore, I think I would buy the one on the right.

Also, I caught one sunset while on Lindau island, and loved all the street signs everywhere. And signs for the shops. We went to a lot of castles, and in one of them was a hall of 32 painted "beauties" as determined by the king. The 4 pictured were a little scandalous. I can't keep who-is-who straight but one (1) was i think one of the king's mistresses (but they wouldn't admit to it) who got jealous of a woman pretending to be an actress from spain, one (2) got married and divorced 4 times and ended up with a sheik which I though was unique for those times, one (3) just had a nice dress, and the other (4) was penniless but the king just thought she was pretty. Chals is showing off our run in with the gazebo from Sound of Music, and yes, I checked if we could go inside and we could not. And finally, the beer-garden where I had my last german meal: a onion, sausage and cheese salad (no lettuce) drowned in vinegar with a pretzel and pickle on the side.

I think Chals started the fountains picture montage, but I went with it. I really do love fountains. Most are explanatory, but I think that the dandelion fountain is a favorite, and one of the only pictures I remember taking in stuttgart.

The island of mainau had a few fountains of their own, but mostly it was the gardens that were amazing. I'll save the flora for myself and not subject you to another one of these just about plants, but needless to say, the gardens were amazing on that island!

I was pretty excited to run into Copernicus at Mirabell gardens though. It was pretty unexpected. The other statues were more or less part of the trip.

The trip was really great! First time in Europe, so I really did have a good good time. Very much worth it even though I came home to a heaping pile of work.

I'll leave you with a great Copernicus quote:

"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun."

Thanks for hanging in there Copernicus.