The fourth flight in 10 days takes its toll!
Flying over the Mediteranean Sea with Easyjet
Crossing the Alpes...
The girls checked through to Basel/Switzerland
the Goetheanum in Dornach, outside Basel
Jacob, our tour guide...
Man holding the balance between the Luciferic and
Armanic Forces: a 8m high wood sculpture by Rudolf
Steiner
The red window in the West
A quick dinner at the Speisehaus opposite the Goetheanum
Class 12
Friday 10thn September
After a 7:30 start we packed our bags and left the Youth Hostel in Barcelona. We caught a shuttlebus from Catalunya Square to the airport and another bus to our designated terminal. That’s what you get for budget airlines I guess.
We boarded the plane and flew over the mountains into Basel airport. We then caught a bus to Basel SBB and dumped our luggage in lockers at the main train station there. We couldn’t work out how to fit all 17 bags into the fewest lockers possible. Luckily one large locker wasn’t locked with peoples suitcases in it. We turfed them out and replaced them with our own bags.
From there we caught a tram and a bus up the mountains to Dornach, Switzerland. We got off the bus at the bottom of the hill and walked up a path to Rudolf Steiners Goetheanum. The building was amazing. The achetecture was like nothing I have ever seen before. The whole building was made from concrete with many weird angles and odd-shaped windows covering its four faces. Rudolf Steiner designed the entire building as a representation of nature; the metamorphosus from one thing into another. This is what we were told by our tour guide anyway. He also built it facing east to west depicting the different world centres that have lead humankind on its journey.
Inside the place was filled with colours. One staircaase wound upwards and every level was a different colour going in rainbow order. I wish I had a staircase like that, At the top of the stairs was a room housing Steiners wooden carving of Mankind between two realms. The carving itself wasn’t completed before Rudolf Steiners death. It still stands around 8m tall and is an amazing piece of artwork. I could have sat there looking at it for hours.
We then went into another part of the building on the top floor where the performance hall was. There was a red window out the front of the four large wooden doors into the hall. The window depicted man finding himself from the darkness of the world. It was beautiful. Nothing beat what was inside the hall though…
It seats 1000 people and on each side were three-fold pillars again showing a gradual, yet artistic change, from one to the next. There were four windows on each side; green, blue, purple and peach. These also showed man in different stages of self-enlightenment. The ceiling was the most amazing thing I had ever seen in my life. If had all been painted by hand in plant-based paints. It showed, again, man throughout the world centres of the past and then him finding himlelf. I couldn’t stop staring at it. In my opinion it beat all the artwork within the Louvre.
A short walk, a train and a busride later we arrived back at the airport to find our plane to Istanbul had been delayed by 50mins. We will arrive in Turkey around 3:30… Its going to be a long night.
I love you Mel and I’ll be home soon
Luke
After a 7:30 start we packed our bags and left the Youth Hostel in Barcelona. We caught a shuttlebus from Catalunya Square to the airport and another bus to our designated terminal. That’s what you get for budget airlines I guess.
We boarded the plane and flew over the mountains into Basel airport. We then caught a bus to Basel SBB and dumped our luggage in lockers at the main train station there. We couldn’t work out how to fit all 17 bags into the fewest lockers possible. Luckily one large locker wasn’t locked with peoples suitcases in it. We turfed them out and replaced them with our own bags.
From there we caught a tram and a bus up the mountains to Dornach, Switzerland. We got off the bus at the bottom of the hill and walked up a path to Rudolf Steiners Goetheanum. The building was amazing. The achetecture was like nothing I have ever seen before. The whole building was made from concrete with many weird angles and odd-shaped windows covering its four faces. Rudolf Steiner designed the entire building as a representation of nature; the metamorphosus from one thing into another. This is what we were told by our tour guide anyway. He also built it facing east to west depicting the different world centres that have lead humankind on its journey.
Inside the place was filled with colours. One staircaase wound upwards and every level was a different colour going in rainbow order. I wish I had a staircase like that, At the top of the stairs was a room housing Steiners wooden carving of Mankind between two realms. The carving itself wasn’t completed before Rudolf Steiners death. It still stands around 8m tall and is an amazing piece of artwork. I could have sat there looking at it for hours.
We then went into another part of the building on the top floor where the performance hall was. There was a red window out the front of the four large wooden doors into the hall. The window depicted man finding himself from the darkness of the world. It was beautiful. Nothing beat what was inside the hall though…
It seats 1000 people and on each side were three-fold pillars again showing a gradual, yet artistic change, from one to the next. There were four windows on each side; green, blue, purple and peach. These also showed man in different stages of self-enlightenment. The ceiling was the most amazing thing I had ever seen in my life. If had all been painted by hand in plant-based paints. It showed, again, man throughout the world centres of the past and then him finding himlelf. I couldn’t stop staring at it. In my opinion it beat all the artwork within the Louvre.
A short walk, a train and a busride later we arrived back at the airport to find our plane to Istanbul had been delayed by 50mins. We will arrive in Turkey around 3:30… Its going to be a long night.
I love you Mel and I’ll be home soon
Luke
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