12-14 October: Clausthal to Goslar and home again

Well, the weather was cold leading to plenty of ice on the car in the morning..............

The walk to the university was all of 300m along the main street of Clausthal ..............

The university was marked by an example of an old motor and wheel at the front door.................................

The classes went well.  The   class room was at the top of the building which meant we walked past this lovely stained galss window eveery day. It is a memorial to the miners who died in WW 1.

 The course final dinner was held  at an interesting loclae - n 18th century pumphouse in the woods about 70 mnutes walk away from the town.  So we all set off on the walk across the countryside...........................

......................................into the gathering darkness of the pine trees.......................................

Past an old powder house (see how one corner is brick built but the rest is wood so if the blasting powder explodes the force will all be in a chosen direction away frm the rest of the plant area).....

....until finally we arrived at the punphouse nestling in the centre of the woods.......

.....we sat down in a very cosy room and had a great 3 course dinner...............

Fortunately we had a bus to take us home.

The next day my work was done so I set out to drive to Hannover Airport but stopped off in Goslar on the way. A world heritage culturally listed area and a centre of the old Imperial Germany. 

The road was scenic but with plenty of frost  on the vegetation.

There is a great mining museum at Goslar  but I really did not have enough time to appreciate it so I did not even start. I wandered around part of the old town looking at some splendid buildings................

 ........ and then headed back to Hannover. Gave the car back to Hertz  and waited for Air Berlin to take off.  We left on time and then it was back to Vienna again.