Date of visit: August 11, 2010, around 9:00 a.m.
It’s been a very long time, but it’s been a while since I’ve written here.
【これまでのあらすじ】
8/9 a.m. Arrived at Work
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8/9 Night Sagittarius of the Grain Valley District Orchestra « Now on Stage! participated
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8/9 Midnight Launch, Drinking till almost 2am.
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8/10 before dawn Stay at a hotel near the show site
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8/10 Check Out around 6am, Head for Narita
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8/10 a.m. Take a 9:35 a.m. flight to Frankfurt
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Arrived in Frankfurt about 3pm local time on the afternoon of 8/10
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8/10 p.m. Rent a car, leave Frankfurt after 4 p.m.
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8/10 evening Non-stop driving to Eisenach, about 200km away
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8/10日没直前 無事アイゼナハ到着、ホテルにもチェックイン。食事をしてようやく就寝。
And the (main) diary so far
- 初日その1、到着直後200kmドライブ ? 2010 Deutschland No.2 -：http://www.yuu-koma.jp/?p=3936
- 初日その2、アイゼナハ到着 - 2010 Deutschland No.3 -：http://www.yuu-koma.jp/?p=3954
※Category Archives: 2010 deutschland：http://www.yuu-koma.jp/?cat=227
And well, I had such a hard schedule. It was kind of the first time in two days that I was able to sleep slowly.
Let’s start the real sightseeing today!
Now, this is the kind of city we’re talking about.
アイゼナハ（Eisenach）はドイツ連邦共和国の都市。テューリンゲン州に属する。音楽家、ヨハン・ゼバスティアン・バッハの出生地としても知られる。同都市のヴァルトブルク城は、ユネスコの世界遺産に登録されている
Wartburg Castle, we’ll go there later.
This is actually my first time to come to Thuringia. There are many areas in this region that are associated with Goethe and Bach. And it’s also related to the World Heritage Site, but it’s also a place where the so-called « Reformation » took place, and it’s also an area related to that.
My impression of this quiet German countryside town was that it was more crowded than I expected, though.
Anyway, we aim to the central square. The weather is not so good. Too bad…
The stalls in the square were mainly selling fruits and flowers.
Now, let’s go to Bach’s birthplace, which is about 5 minutes walk from here.
Can we say that this kind of atmosphere is German? This atmosphere reminded me of Strasbourg in France.
By the way, there is a signboard that sometimes becomes a town, and what Japanese notation. Are there many Japanese tourists?
This area is also associated with Luther, the central figure of the Reformation, right? I think he lived here.
And we arrived at Bach’s birthplace. There are so many tourists (foreigners). I’m a little disappointed…
I waited idly until he was gone. They were gone sooner than I expected, though.
Bach. It’s Bach. (TEARS)
So, I went to my birthplace, but it was early in the morning and it wasn’t open yet…. So I didn’t really want to wait, but it was getting a bit of a hassle, and I still had a lot of plans for the rest of the day, so I figured, what the hell (laughs).
But it’s already enough for me to cry just thinking, « This is where that great Bach was born. Thank God for this place!
ホテルに泊めてある駐車場に戻り、次は車で郊外（といってもすぐそこ）のヴァルトブルク城へ向かいます。（No.5に続く）
