24 Juli-- Day 30

A very easy day. Not much happened. After breakfast, we checked out, leaving our baggage at the hostel. Then we walked through the town to go check out St. Michael’s again. MC hadn’t seen it yet, and most of the other churches were having service and whatnot. Inside was much more stunning that the freaking Dom. Here’s a picture. It’s so beautiful with the light streaming in… There’s also a saint or someone buried at a second altar in the front—so cool.

Lovely, no?

Holy, yes?

This I thought was weird: there was a statue of Hermes/ Apollo in front of the cloister. I think that was the wrong religion………. Maybe it had something to do with the power of healing, or something like that?

Anyway, here’s some photos of the view from up there. We were on one of (if not the) highest points in the town . you could see over everything, and the clods looked positively radiant. It was all so beautiful.

Then we rushed back only to be too early for our train.

View from the cloister's backyard

Stone map pointing out where big cities, or Schlosses and whatnot were/are

8 hour train ride. 4 connections. 2 connections of 5 minutes or less. I think I stressed out enough to give myself stress acne. Not even joking. Sorry. TMI? Anyway, despite the fact that everything in Germany is always on time… the Deutsche Bahn is always 5 mintues late. And that’s very worrying when you’re passing a foreign train sation, and you’re 5 minutes late and you only have 5 minutes. Somehow everything worked out though. We had a very close call- got off the train one stop too early, then when we realized it was the wrong one, had to run up and ask the conductor if we got off at the wrong spot. (uhhhh that was my fault. But I got us there in one piece with only that one mistake and on time)

Also we didn't get to eat anything really, but candy.

And I had a gross hot dog. Don't think that counted- it tasted like rubber

Sunflowers from the train.

We got home kind of late, so I just went straight to bed.