Wopswede, Germany - Deepak Mashinder and Abha visit - July 2011

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Wopswede is a lovely little town near Bremen in Germany - I. Mashinder and Abha visited it and spent the entire day walking around it - savoring the flavor of the times and Abha bought lots of beautiful little souveniers from the quaint little old times shops there. It was a really very happy and satisfying day and reminded me of the good old days when things were beautiful and life was simple and uncomplicated. Good friends are really a gift from the Gods.

Wopswede, Germany - Deepak Mashinder and Abha visit

Wopswede is a lovely little town near Bremen in Germany - I. Mashinder and Abha visited it and spent the entire day walking around it - savoring the flavor of the times and Abha bought lots of beautiful little souveniers from the quaint little old times shops there. It was a really very happy and satisfying day and reminded me of the good old days when things were beautiful and life was simple and uncomplicated. Good friends are really a gift from the Gods.

BREMEN - ABHA MASHINDER DEEPAK - JULY 2011

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Mashinder dove us in his car to Bremen - and on the way we enjoyed the impeccable German landscape - precision is the word that comes to mind when one thinks of Germany and we arrived at Bremen in good spirits. It is really a very fine city! We roamed all around the town area and savored the wonderful architecture of the buildings. many many wonderful statues, beautiful gardens and flowers, fascinating bylanes of old Bremen where there were quaint shops -each different from the next and each selling its own brand of goods. The cobble stones and the bicycle tracks were so nice to see. And the discipline amazing. No one - I repeat - No one every violated a traffic rule even though we seldom saw the traffic police!

BREMEN - GERMANY - DEEPAK ABHA MASHINDER JULY 2011

Mashinder dove us in his car to Bremen - and on the way we enjoyed the impeccable German landscape - precision is the word that comes to mind when one thinks of Germany and we arrived at Bremen in good spirits. It is really a very fine city! We roamed all around the town area and savored the wonderful architecture of the buildings. many many wonderful statues, beautiful gardens and flowers, fascinating bylanes of old Bremen where there were quaint shops -each different from the next and each selling its own brand of goods. The cobble stones and the bicycle tracks were so nice to see. And the discipline amazing. No one - I repeat - No one every violated a traffic rule even though we seldom saw the traffic police!

Berlin, Germany - Abha Rumi, Mashinder, Karan and Deepak - July 2011

Mashinder with his wife Rumi and son Karan, drove us in their car to Berlin and it was really a wonderful city. The Autobahn ride was in itself an experience as always. They took turns driving and finally after driving through wonderful countryside all like paintings of the masters, we arrived at Berlin. We first walked through a wonderful park with beautiful flowers and a great Old Windmill right out of Cervantes. And then we took a bustop tour of the great city of Berlin! We saw the Berlin wall. We saw the beautiful buildings. We strolled through amazing Malls. We saw wonderful architecture, We walked all around the famous Checkpoint Charlie where the Russians and the Americans came face to face when Berlin fell during the Second World War. There are no ends to the wonders of Berlin steeped in History. I will try to add more to this blog as time passes - but one is well advised to read the History of Germany and the 2nd World War too and then go to Berlin and savour its flavor!

Neu Schwanstien - The Schloss - Abha Deepak Mrinal - our visit to Germany July 2011

Mrinal drove us from Innsbruck, Ellbogen, Austria, to this beautiful Castle in Germany one day. The drive through the Austrian Alps was amazingly like a drive through the mountains of our dreams. Lush vegetation, beautiful villages and towns, incredible tunnels - one was 14 KM long, with lighting and superb roads and speeds of 80-90 KMPH even inside the tunnel - WOWEEEEE!
And then finally we had our first glimpse of this most beautiful of Castles of the world. In Germany they are called a Schloss - but I will use the word Castle. Lush meadows led us to the beautiful town at the base of the hills where it was built.
Everyone who has seen the great musical movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" must have been enthralled in the scene where the flying car flies over a castle and that castle was Neu Schawanstien! Find the You Tube link to the song - and enjoy the castle!
I will add to this blog in a while - but enjoy the photos till I manage to put in a more comprehensive description! We were not allowed to use the Flash in the Castle and it was not too brightly lit from inside to preserve the paintings and fresco in the Castle, so I am only posting the ones which were clear. Unfortunately the part of the movie where the car flies over the Neu Schwanstein Castle has been removed from You Tube due to some copyright infringement - but you all can see the movie all right when you get it.
AND ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, I saw a calender of the castle and was so impressed by its pristine beauty that I PAINTED THE NEU SCHWANSTIEN CASTLE WITH A ROCKY FACE, never having seen it and not knowing that one day I would actually be standing inside it.. I am posting that painting my me also in this album - albeit with a little artistic license ha ha
Deepak and Abha!!

SELIGENSTADT, GERMANY - ABHA DEEPAK VISIT WITH MRINAL PETRA ALBAN DANIEL

We went with Mrinal and Petra and their kids Alban and Daniel to SELIGENSTADT which is a beautiful Monastery near Frankfurt. We had great pastries at a cafe also. The most beautiful thing about that Monastery, aside from its beautiful medieval architecture, were the gardens. I am sure that the variety of plants and different variations of apples can not be found in any single garden anywhere, other then the Botanical Gardens of the Universities or the Government.
We were so happy there with the wonderful weather and the company of Petra and Alban and Daniel, that we remained smiles all the way. The Monks had cultivated an incredible assortment of rare medicinal herbs too. In a way it was like the Dream Garden that Abha carries close to her heart.!

Visit to Mashinder Rumi and Karan at Hepstedt North Germany - WONDERFUL11

Our friend Mrinal put us on a train to Bremen via Hanover, in the nick of time after we arrived at the wrong station ha ha. The train was wonderful and so was the trip. I wonder how they manage to coordinate the entire system so efficiently. We passed through beautiful countryside, tunnels and little hamlets and towns on the way - they were all like one would see in a fairytale.
For the first time in many years, the trains were delayed due to some problem on a bridge but we were met at the station by Mashinder and he drove us the short distance of about 35 KM to Hepstedt where he and Rumi have a beautiful house.
This album is about them only and perhaps I may have to write a tome someday about this beautiful family. I am going to post some photos which will give every one an idea of this heaven on Earth.
AND CONTINUING NOW - the stay with Mashinder and Rumi was more and more enchanting hour by hour. Abha said that the couples marriage was so perfect that the marriage must have been arranged in Heaven. The days when we did not go out, they cooked up wonderful dishes including a PERFECT birthday party for me at Midnight on the 26th! Rumi had quietly baked a cake par excellence and they had the Champagne chilled to perfection - all done without me knowing about it!!
The day before we left, they made a wonderful Barbeque with coals in their beautiful garden .. I wish we were not going back to India ... and finally, just the two of them maintain that heavenly house as though some fairy waves a magic wand every day to keep it so perfect - imagine keeping a house with garden with 40 Trees and myriad other things so perfectly speck free ...