I found a treasure in my weekend trip!
Sometimes one travels and of course, enjoys the travel, has a good time and everything is normal, nothing out of the ordinary.
But other times one travels and by surprise without planning anything, something spectacular appears, something that marks the trip in a special way.
That happened to me this past weekend when I was with my son at the wedding of a friend in northern Germany, very close to the border with Holland. The location of the wedding had a Dutch style, with mill included and everything but this is theme for a future post. The story of today has to do more with the final part of the travel.
When we were to start the trip back to Berlin, the DJ of the party offered to take my son and me in his car to a small town called Herford. The idea was to not have to make changes and just take the train directly to Berlin. It was a trip of about an hour, very entertaining. The man was a Greek over 50 years old with many interesting stories to tell. And when we were entering the city of Herford he looked at me and told me.
I'll show you what we call here the jewel of the city. - The greek Dj.
And suddenly this man took us to the front of a building. As soon as I saw the unmistakable curved lines and titanium plates I knew ...
... it was the work of the architect Frank Gehry!!!
The building in question is a museum of contemporary art called MARTa Herford. Its construction lasted 4 years and opened to the public in 2005.
In front of the museum a statue of Tupac Shakur and at the base of the statue a graffiti with the image of Frank Gehry.
This greek Dj can not imagine how grateful I'll be with him my whole life. He was one of those people who gives us life in certain moments so that they lead us to incredible treasures. And we may never see each other again, but the imprint of its passage is indelible.
I could not take many pictures because we were in a hurry but my memory will forever remember those curves so beautifully mixed with straight line levels and the brilliance of titanium contrasting with the orange brick in the small town of Herford.
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Amazing! :D
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Nice Juan!
Awesome hanging with you at Steemfest in Amsterdam, are you going to Steemfest 2 in Portugal?
Hope to see you there brother!
Craig 🙂
Very beautiful it looks. Cheers!!
I read your post with interest, these unexpected encounters far from home can have life-altering consequences. Thanks for sharing this with us. Carpe Diem.
You are 100% right @petrushka13! Thanks to you for your comment and for pass by :)
Awesome photography dear.. Following u..
Thanks a lot @blurrylens! Glad you like the photos :)
That is great!! :)
That is a treasure indeed!
Yes!!! It was so crazy to be standing in front of the building and realizing was the work of Gehry! It was just a small city.... thanks a lot for the comment taraamin77! :)
Unexpected findings are the best. Nice treasure of architecture!
Yes they are!!! :) Thanks a lot for your comment @heroic15397!
OMG YOU ARE KIDDING!!
my uncle just vitsited a few months ago and kept asking me where the Tupac museum was....and i went....we...we dont have a tupac museum in berlin!
he was insistant and told me that it was in germany he had seen it on the news, well, now i know where to take him next time hes here. for the life of me it made no sense... why would there be a tupac museum lol now i know what he meant haha
hahahaha lol! The Tupac Museum!!!! But he was totally right :-) Is in Herford! Now you know where to take him the next time, yes. It is 4 and a half hours in IC train from Berlin.... I think you should write an "apology" message to your uncle now @moderninvestor ;-) :-D