There was a break in the rain for an important family wedding, the reason I chose to visit Germany this summer for a bike by train trip. Here is historic St Michael's church, once Catholic now Protestant, but with all the pre-Reformation religious art intact, despite the religious wars in this part of Martin Luther's Germany. Apparently all the papist trimmings survived the iconoclasm of the era because this was a little backwater town in the Middle Ages known only for salt production. Such is the history of so much of historically old Europe. Any tourist lucky to visit the main square today got a real treat: a high fashion wedding arranged by the bride's generous and creative new German in-laws. All of the Americans in the party audibly gasped when we were told to let these balloons go free for a memorable photo opp. Being from green and ecological Seattle, we automatically think "it'll kill the penguins" if we did this stateside. Germany is different. I am very grateful to my German hosts for demonstrating legendary Deutsch hospitality.
Vielen Dank.
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