Germany!

The Pisa airport restaurant didn't have coffee.

We took a plane to Frankfurt.

Then we took the train to Kassel.

Homer Simpson donut I had for breakfast at the Kassel hotel.

First stop at dOCUMENTA in Kassel, Germany.  Inside was a variety of artists, including Salvador Dali and Emily Carr.  Joanna like Charlotte Salomon who made a play based on her life and some fictional events.   I saw Lee Miller's photographs taken during the WWII of Hitler's apartment and  objects from his study.

Yan Lei, a Chinese artist, filled a room full of paintings, some painted a solid colour and others with images from the internet that he liked.  The idea is that this is his way of cataloguing his internet searches in a physical space.  He only paints the images he likes or finds interesting, then when it's time to paint another image, he hires a car painter to completely cover the canvas in a new colour to start all over.

I like turquoise. 

Beautiful building.

Not a dOCUMENTA sculpture, just a nice one.

Second night in Kassel, dinner at a German restaurant.  

Everyone's pretty tired.

Tess and Irina.

The best schnitzel I've ever had!  

Megan, Joanna, and Jodi resting in between stops.

Joanna Photography.

Classy busker.

Joanna on the bus in between gallery stops.

A shot from a film where a woman played a flute discovered from thousands of years ago that was made out of a vulture's wing bone and a live vulture perched next to her was forced to listen. 

 Artists are weird.

A close up of one of the sculptures in a garden on of the bunker in Kassel.

Laura our professor and Rebecca looking at one of the sculptures in the garden.

View of rooftops from the garden.

Hannah, one of our sculpture majors, getting a closer look.

Joanna and the view of Kassel's rooftops.

Trail of sculptures from the garden.

Last night in Kassel, dinner together at the German restaurant.

Must have a German beer, while you're in Germany.

Rest of the group on our last night in Kassel, waiting for our meals.

Where we tried to sleep during our long wait in the Frankfurt Hahn airport.

The Alps!

Finally going back to Florence where our real beds await.