Michael went back to Goettingen on Sunday and I explored the town some more and Monday a trip on the Danube to Walhalla was in order. It was built in the mid1800's to honor great Germanic people (I think they are all men.) It is based on the Parthenon but not exactly to scale. It is on a high hill overlooking the Danube out in the middle of nowhere. When walking around the outside it almost felt like our Parthenon in Nashville until you looked out over the countryside and the Danube - lovely location.
Along the Danube were more Kleingartens (little gardens). There is a patch of these small gardens in rich soil divided by fences, sometimes with little sheds and often like little cabins and they spend the weekend there tending and enjoying them. They have flowers, vegetables, fruit trees and lawns. Like our backyards without the house. Maybe most of these people live in apartments.
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