Here’s a little insight:
Most of the time I spend just chilling in Enschede, but every now and again I get up to something a little adventurous… Like when Samantha, Mhairi, and I broke into an abandoned factory in Gronau, a neighboring German town on may 6th.
It’s about a half hour or so bike ride, about 12km away, and there are a bunch of abandoned buildings and factories strewn about. In fact, a lot of Europe houses abandoned and ruined buildings. It’s neat.
Anyway, we rode out bikes there, and proceeded to climb through a hole in the fence, and explore said factory. The girls had been there before, and had chosen to return with their cameras in order to create some photographic art; including Samantha’s idea of gathering dead pigeons and immortalizing them forever on film. With the girls otherwise occupied, I brought along a couple cans of spray-paint (silver and gold) and my trusty digital camera. I would suggest watching the videos, as they are rather amusing…
I put up a decent signature piece, and slung about a bunch of random phrases and words in the very un-native-to-Germany English language.
Samantha’s pigeon shots turned out excellently, and can be seen HERE
Once we had romped the whole thing, we biked back into Gronau, grabbed a pint and some pizza, and then biked back into the Netherlands.
The day after (May 6th), I took a solo trip deeper into Germany, to Munster, where I had been eight years previous on my first expedition to Europe. Lets go to my travel journal:
It’s been eight years since I’ve been here, and I remember it all being a lot bigger :P It’s funny, the things you remember and the things you don’t from eight years previous… I went to two big cathedrals in town, that I had also went to when I was younger.
The merchant’s cathedral and the Bishop’s cathedral (the one with the bitchin’ astronomical clock), and I remember things like the layout, the major features like the organs, and key architectural features (ie, in the merchants cathedral, the columns are spaced progressively closer inside as you look forward to give the illusion that it’s longer than it actually is), and the general feeling of being in a cathedral, but I had forgotten the size differences between the two, all the little sculptures that ornament them, all the shrines, and that amazing contemplative state of consciousness you slip into when you hold a place like that in any sort of reverence. (heh, I love run-on sentences) Oh, and I swiped a few postcards of the bishops cathedral on my way out (hey, I’m already going to Hell, what’s a few postcards at this point).
…Anyhoo, I kicked it around town for a bit, found a sweet military store where I bought a little metal regiment insignia for the WWII German army scouts… Don’t know whether I’ll put it on anything or not before I get home… I don’t know how well that will go over in some of the countries around here…
Stay tuned, as next you will hear of the harrowing adventure to Berlin!
1 comment:
Goddamn, that astronomical clock was fucking gorgeous. Ditto the one on the Merchant's cathedral with the death cages over top. So cool. And cruising the factory (Textile my ass. The only thing made there... was death.) in the dark with the flashlight? Very Session 9. Especially the wall hole.
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