Jonathan Stroud's Blog, page 63
November 11, 2013
An author at the end of his tour
An author at the end of his tour
Onstage at RavensBuch
Onstage at RavensBuch
The zeppelin’s lounge
The zeppelin’s lounge
Inside a zeppelin!
Inside a zeppelin!
Windy weather in Friedrichshafen
Windy weather in Friedrichshafen
Onstage in Munich
Onstage in Munich
Munich and Friedrichshafen
Two excellent days to end the tour. On Saturday we left Tubingen and went by train to Munich, where the Munchener Bucherschau was in full swing at the Gasteig cultural centre. I last came here when I was presenting the Amulet of Samarkand many years ago, so it was good to be back. We presented Lockwood in the Kleiner Konzertsaal to an audience of 200 people. The whole show was filmed on live stream by www.lovelybooks.de and it may still be available to watch online.
On Sunday we travelled down to one of the southern tips of Germany, the town of Friedrichshafen on the shores of Lake Bodensee. From the lakeside you can see Austria and Switzerland on the other side - or would have seen them, if it hadn’t been stormy and blowing a gale. Friedrichshafen is notable as being the historic home of Germany’s great Zeppelin fleet - from here the Hindenburg (still the largest aircraft ever constructed) and others started off on their flights to New York, Tokyo and South America. There’s a museum here, featuring a partial reconstruction of the state-of-the-art (for the 1930s) interior of a zeppelin, and Judith, Marc, Sebastian and I took a stroll round it. The scale of it all, and the roomy cabins with running water, were fascinating; most amazing was footage of technicians carrying out repairs to the zeppelin exterior while the ship was in flight! Afterwards we had a very fine final event at the RavensBuch bookstore. Our train home was cancelled, so we hired a car and took a night drive back to Munich through the first suggestion of winter’s snows. The day ended with a midnight drink to toast the successful end of a wonderful tour.
November 9, 2013
Tubingen streets
Tubingen streets
