i was on vacations for 3 weeks, the reaon why i didn't update lately. the first week i spent partly in wiesbaden and partly in thuringia, the next week we were in france, the last week was spent in wiesbaden again with my parents. it was splendid! everyday we had a different programme and i must say i loved the hiking trips we made the most. i will post pictures about my adventures of course, but first i need to get rid off these. i made these before i went on vacations.
the fasanerie was the last thing i visited together with my parents when they were here at the pentecost weekend. i'm so glad that we have this little animal park jewel here in wiesbaden. you don't have to pay entry, the park lives off donations. and because it is so loved by many people they sure get a lot of donations as new homes for the animals are realized every year. and it's worth donating a few euro every visit, really.
a cat greeting us at the front garden.
a wisent peacefully grazeing the grounds.
a bear playing with a coconut ball.
wild boar poser.
on grazile doe feet.
such beautiful animals.
fox behind fence. they really need a new home, but everything in due course.
goose fledglings <3 p="">
stork couple.
one day i visited n. in mainz & it was all rainy that day so we decided to visit the mainz cathedral. i went there before & found it a very dark & gloomy building, full of dark symbols. the cathedral is over 1000 years old and i think you can really feel that. of course people renovated it over this time span again & again but some graves or some of the interior really reeks of ancient times. even though the cathedral is sending out dark signals you still are left with a mesmerized feeling & leave the cathedral with a lot of respect for its erectors. this time i also visited the cloister the first time - a neat inner courtyard. and there is still one more thing i didn't see yet and which will require me going back: the cathedral museum with its treasury.
altar of the virgin mary.
greetings from the grave. this man was called reichsgraf karl adam von lamberg.
modern jesus sculpture.
a golden shrine in the east crypt.
the cloister.
there were some small blue rats spread around the whole facility. these rats are actually mice and their function is to show children around the cathedral.
we were quite intrigued by these mighty blue mice :)
we were constantly walking over graves ( the whole cloister seems to have been a graveyard facility ), and occasionally you found a creepy looking statue in one of the many niches.
a beautiful hallway.
funerary monument of cathedral provost heinrich ferdinand von der leyen.
the west apse.
modern take of christianism.
aisle view to the east.
lion gate knocker.
the little alley guiding out and into the cathedral.
horrible looking mythical creatures. ( they are too alien for me... and i really fear aliens. )
fish on the wall :)
right next to where n.'s boyfriend lives there is a building with this figure up on the rooftop. i had to look twice until i finally realized what an amazing statue this is :)
the view out of the appartement.
and we ate my delicious selfmade rhubarb cake and drank hot coffee to warm us up after this spooky but still magical day in the mainz cathedral.
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