i am dreaming of a trip to france. to see the ocean, to see dunkerque, le havre and st malo. i have been there before long ago and have good memories. i want to see the water, the fisherman villages and the coastside. i want to eat decent fresh seafood and learn new kinds of good. for a number of years we travelled often to germany, to berlin and drove along the rhine and the main
germany was interesting with many layers of history. leipzig was very special. at every streetcorner you could look around in a different direction and see different parts of history. in the smaller cities between leipzig and kassel it was similar. bach hd been there, goethe, but also napoleon, and the russians. after the russians clinton had stayed overnight in the wartburg a.o. it is a special part of germany with all those layers of history, all those perioads that pssed by, leaving their traces in the present.
along the rhine the history was older and almost yesterday.catsles everywhere, but also memories of the second world war and of the new romantic discovery of the rhine: the lorelei and other fairytale like places. but many cities along the rhine looked romantic, had lots of hotels and restaurants and were visited by many people. without tourists however it looked a little dejavu, a little forlorn a little out of the world, however pelasant it may be. the boattrips on the rhine were different and very international and very up to date.
i have memories from years ago watching th first sputnik come over in a garden in lorch, germany. i have memories of missiles ready to reach russia, near the gass-station near koblenz and memories of huge troup transports along the rhine, camping with my parents in a small former army tent. not very comfortable, not very cosy but without any camping experience it was great to camp along the rhine, hearing the boats and the water and the many trains passing by on both sides. in that sense nothing changed very much.
the world changed however a lot. i wonder how france will look along the coast, with some celtic history, some world war II places and most of all lost of nature.