There is a small town located 20 minutes by train from Frankfurt called Darmstadt, please correct me if I'm wrong but I rather say this is a town not a city, but this isn't just a town for me this was the special one. Back to summer 2011 when I was on eurotrip across Germany I visited Darmstadt before I went back to Indonesia. The reason I had to because I have to visit my niece who was study there, wait, I'm not that old my niece still older than me anyway.
Back to the story, I arrived at Frankfurt's main station at 6 O'clock in the morning, then continued my trip to Darmstadt. It was a long non-stop trip from Copenghagen to Darmstadt via Hamburg. In the station I wait for 5 to 10 minutes before my niece picked me up then head back to her apartment. Since the day went on heavy downpour, after took a shower I feel it was time to take some nap, the rain on summer days was bad but I need those one that day. It was the best daydream I've ever had while in Europe.
When the sun back shine we went to Darmstadt tourist information on Luisenplatz that shining with varies of shopping centre and crossroad of many tram and bus' routes, then began our journey for a day. First place we went to St. Ludwig Church, it looks like a big dome, and on the wall there's a twelve sculpture about some history, but I don't understand it very well, and on the ceiling there's a glass looking like one eye, gives you some another dimension in the church. After a while we moved outside the church and live a little walks along the boulevard to the city square.
When you walks in Europe there must be some schloss on your stops, so we stopped at schloss museum, takes some memorable picture then walk throughout Marktplatz. When in Marktplatz I still remember the feelings takes me back over a centuries before time, it feels so ancient but in a good way. We continued our walks pass the Darmstadtium, then got into some parks and university that I forgot the name. And just after some random walks I encountered a magical place surrounded by summer's colours, just like in fairy tale name Prince George's Garden and Palace. It was looks like palace from a far, but it was really small building with library inside. And the best things was you may borrow some books from there without any registration or something, just read or take some books then put it back when you're done.
I was glad to see so many flowers from the garden, it was the summer pictured memories that I really want to keep all my life. The last place we went to a place of arts if I could simplify it, but before that we went pass an well-known artsy apartment architecture in Darmstadt. They called it waldspiral, like there's no intervention from engineers there, everything about it just so artsy.
It was the same feeling I had when I walked throughout the Ernst Ludwig's House, Russian Chapel, Platanenhain, Russian Chapel, Matildenhohe and surrounds this is what I feel about Darmstadt, when you walk through this city all day the feeling in you is change it may takes you upside down but in a strange way. . My niece once said that, there's an element found in this city called Darmstadium. This city is also known for its University and science but you can't split those unique arts from this city. So I love this city because in a day you won't feel bored about it, there's something different on the corner, it would be another surprises for you.
August 2011.
