Oh right, Aachen

I forgot Aachen, which is a small town about 65 km west of Cologne. We went there for a day trip to sketch the Palatine Chapel built by Charlemagne and was the seat of the German Kings of the Holy Roman Empire for about 500 years in the middle ages. We had All Souls Day mass there ( in German) and it was like Christmas – a full choir, 12 priests, tons of people. I didn’t realize it was a pilrimage church. In any case, it was amazing to experience Our Lord in a place that I’ve learned about in college for the past 3 years and it seems ever architecture history course to come. And a place where most of the kings of the HRE were crowned.

Okay, I wrote that because I’m doing an analytical sketch of it right now… and remembering how brilliant it was!

Goodnight!

Also – in Berlin, we