Fischmarkt

Hamburg's Fischmarkt, my favorite Sunday morning spot. Well you can't do anything much on a Sunday morning in Germany anyway. We had a good fisch brötchen. We got apples. We bought tons of fish. We cooked them afterwards.

Heidelberg

On our way from Darmstadt to Stuttgart we decided to stop by in Heidelberg. One of the prettiest cities in Germany I must say. We got there just after the dawn, the sky was colored rose pink with just an appropriate amount of mist. The air is cool and the breeze flows through our hair.

 

We took the rail up to the castle, looking at the city from a better view. The Neckar river flows through the city, separating the university from the other part of the city.

Traveling is like dreaming,

you see things you've

never imagined before. 

The thing that I like about traveling is I am finding characteristics of each cities that I went to. I wish I could spend more time and live a life here and in other cities too. There is simply too many things to be learned and experienced by living somewhere new. Somewhere, where you don't speak the language.

Pretty. I can live here.

Papst & Freiburg

Vitra

Going to Vitra felt like a dream to me. Why? Hm, just because I've seen it so much in magazines, I want it badly enough that we decided to go to the very southern part of Germany just to go here. I guess I possess a bit of industrial-design self in me somehow. Who would've thought. 

Located in Weil am Rhein (am Rhein simply means it is along the Rhein), the city itself is called 'The City of Chairs'. When we arrived in the city, huge chairs are everywhere, monster size. If you walked to the river then you will see France on the other side. We would love to to that, but we were drawn so much into the greatness of the factory that we spent the whole day there.

We did the architectural guided tour. Tell you what, the area is simply amazing. There is the first Zaha Hadid's building, Frank Gehry's, Tadao Ando's, SANAA's, and the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron. Too much goodness in one site, really. The factory itself is only used for assembling parts and finishing the products.

Strangely enough, I met two Indos there while we were reading books in one of the houses at VitraHaus.

It feels like IKEA, a really posh IKEA though. Gee, imagine working here. You are actually in this beautifully designed area, meeting your clients at one of the conference rooms designed by Tadao Ando (they are actually having meetings there when we were in the building), having lunch at the cafe and sitting on Erwan Bouroullec's Vegetal chair while deciding which design should go into production. Goosebumps.

Eca & Frankfurt

This is Eca.

And this is Frankfurt.

I don't think we got much of the goodness of Frankfurt. We went there on a Monday and we didn't realize that the museums are closed on Mondays. Sigh. The city itself, hm, partly very modern, partly pretty. It was my first city in Germany. The Hauptbahnhof is huge though, and people dress really well down in the south.

Mainz

Mainz is pretty. It's a very quiet city. Seems like everyone's just whispering. But it's nice.