366 Photos - 309 - Friday - Holiday Day 11 - Esslingen!

[byslantedlight]

Apparently every second day I can manage two posts... *g* We had a relaxed start to Friday, after the epic Black Forest drive, but by Friday afternoon we were off again. If you take out one of the ss from the name, and you happen to have read the Astreiant books, you might know why I just had to visit Esslingen... *g*

Today's road went through buildings, and past distant vistas...

And look who we found - another balancer!

A river runs through the town, and they use water wheels to actually create power from it. I loved the chap who had to turn the wheel... *g*



Then we found alleys and backways... ...and the market square...

The Alt Rathaus...

...which had an astronomical clock...

...and we were there when it chimed! Look - clock quiet - clock crowing! (The little guys also turned around, but you can't really see that).

More views (and up to the town walls) Can we imagine a young Philip Eslingen running around here...? *g*

Twin church towers... ...and view up to the vinyards above (after a wedding, perhaps *g*).

Houses - and house guardian...

Look down... ...and look up!

Dragon!



Looking upriver to the old bridge... ...and a wedding!

I reckon this could almost be the backyard of a certain hostelry where a certain Eslingen used to help with the horses... *g*

So how fab was that?! *g*

Comments

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

OMG, it's Bodie and Doyle, but called Eslingen and Rathe!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

*vbg* Get thee to mescott (the author's blog, though she writes other books and series too) and astreiant for the occasional fanfic (anything by kindkit and jessebee especially is fab...) And obviously get thee to the bookshop of your flavour, and start with Point of Hopes... *vbg*