Thursday, October 2, 2008

Yesterday, we explored Kassel. It is the home of the Brothers Grimm, of Fairytale fame.
This is the Brothers Grimm museum. Almost everything was in German; we had to use our German/English Dictionary and our imagination, a lot. There were a lot of illustrations from a wide variety of artists (including Japanese), and it was fun identifying the tales from those drawings. It has renewed our interest in the work they did.
We also had the fun of exploring Kassel by tram (another excellent form of travel in Europe).
Today, Carmen and Sebastian took us to Waldeck where there is quite a castle of the Waldeck family. This view is from the dam at Edersee, a resevoir on the Eder River, that was also impacted by the destruction of the dam during each of the two World Wars, with the loss of a lot of lives.
The castle included a museum that went through torture chambers which included this cage/jail which spun around to make the person inside very sick.
Any explanation for why Marcia is smiling and Mike is crying for help?