(Paper lanterns sold at the Weihnactsmarkt -- one of many Christmas markets that pop up all over German cities this time of the year.)David and I returned to Germany last Tuesday. We flew into Dusseldorf, from where we were taken by car to Essen. We stayed in Essen for two nights, over the course of which we achieved various things and visited more German cities: on the first night we went to see "Cats" in Cologne, and on the second night we went to Dusseldorf to walk around the Japanese shopping area and ate dinner at a fabulous restaurant, led by our New Zealander colleague, Karin. All this we did as we kicked off more casting, mostly in search of dancers.
After Essen we spent two nights in Hamburg. And now we are in Berlin. It's been a bit of a whirlwind traveling and we have already consumed a great many mugs-ful of gluhwein (mulled wine) and bratwursts... but now we settle into being in Berlin for a week. We're in a different hotel in a suite this time, which makes things more comfortable... and now that we will stay put and not city-hop, we have been able to unpack! Hooray.
Here are just a few snapshots of our travels thus far:
(Delicious feuersangenbowle -- mulled red wine with rum, with a burnt sugar cube dripping into the drink.)
(On the audition tour in Essen with Christoph and Perrin... having a bit of a break with some feuersangenbowle to warm ourselves...)
(David pretends to be a wild boar... eating a wurst made out of wild boar...)
(In Berlin in front of the Weihnachtsmarkt in Gendarmenkarkt... we hear it is one of the prettiest Christmas markets in Berlin...)
(Baumkuchen!!! It is a cake that is a "tree" (baum) made up of layers and layers of thin cake that gets rolled around a metal pole...)
(Fancy baumkuchen ....)
(Feuersangenbowle -- in a big pot with flamed sugar block dripping into it...)
(David with his new favorite drink -- a mug of heidelbeergluhwein, a blueberry gluhwein with amaretto...)
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