More weather
Jun. 29th, 2013 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953It has rained more or less continuously today, so I was looking for things to do indoors. Firstly, I went round the Dom (cathedral) known as the Frauenkirche, a fifteenth century building that barely survived 1945 with its towers and walls (but not its roof) intact. ( Late Gothic style apparently, and because my current reading is The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, I know that the Gothic style got its name when architectural historians were looking back and decided that this style was barbaric compared to the Romanesque style it replaced, and as the Goths were the barbarians that conquered Rome...) Really, there ought to have been baroque music booming out - even J. S. Bach would do - not the continual multi-lingual susurrations that were audible.
Then I went to the Deutsches Museum, which is a science and technology museum, and a very impressive one. I was too tired and footsore to go round all of it - I didn't even get to the brewing gallery I recall from last time. I also have this problem with museums that I can't go in galleries with balconies because of my fear of heights, something I discovered way back in 1963 at the Science Museum in Kensington. (My aunt, who has died just this year, and my cousin took me there when the family were down in London on holiday, and as they didn't want to take my siblings around too, they made up a rule that you had to be over ten to be let in - I'd just turned ten. When we were back in London two years later and the whole family went to the museum, one of my sisters remembered this and wanted to know why they were allowed in now.)
Off to Salzburg in the morning.
Then I went to the Deutsches Museum, which is a science and technology museum, and a very impressive one. I was too tired and footsore to go round all of it - I didn't even get to the brewing gallery I recall from last time. I also have this problem with museums that I can't go in galleries with balconies because of my fear of heights, something I discovered way back in 1963 at the Science Museum in Kensington. (My aunt, who has died just this year, and my cousin took me there when the family were down in London on holiday, and as they didn't want to take my siblings around too, they made up a rule that you had to be over ten to be let in - I'd just turned ten. When we were back in London two years later and the whole family went to the museum, one of my sisters remembered this and wanted to know why they were allowed in now.)
Off to Salzburg in the morning.
