For our second visit of the Bayreuth festival, we have chosen the spa town of Františkovy Lázně as our staying place. We got some cure treatments there and visited the nearby Soos nature reserve. A day trip brought us to the german museum in Mödlareuth, showing the former border fortifications between east and west Germany. We also visited the continental deep drilling project in Windischeschenbach and the Plassenburg in Kulmbach. In Bayreuth, we have made a guided tour through the newly renovated Margravial opera house, one of the few remaining examples of a baroque court theater. The highlight of the trip was attending the performances of Lohengrin and Parsival, two memorable evenings in our lifes that will be remembered forever. We even got an autograph from the tenor Beczala on a Lohengrin Blu-Ray disc.
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