Monday, September 25
6:30 a.m. This morning, after much discussion we decided to split our crew into two units. Kurt, Joyce, and I drove three hours south to the Coburg Castle. Rick and Peter went back to Erfurt to continue production there. The Augsburg confession is a cornerstone document of the Lutheran faith. While it was being written, Luther sat on the side lines in the Coburg Castle. He was considered an outlaw at the time and his presence at the meeting where the confession was being written probably would have resulted in his arrest. Like the castle in Marburg, the Coburg was spectacular. Like all castles, it sits on a hill overlooking the town making it easy to dump hot oil on the neighboring prince’s invading surfs.
In the afternoon we drove north back to Erfurt to meet up with Rick and Peter at the Augustinian monastery. We recorded lot’s of footage including the cell or room where Luther stayed. Very Spartan accommodations. You really had to want to be a monk. That evening Rick used one of his travel tips and paid a taxi five Marks to drive us to our hotel in Erfurt. We just drove behind him. By this time I was just about out of Marks myself. Trying to find a place to eat dinner with nothing but an American Express card near the Erfurt airport is not easy. Everywhere we went we were met with blank stairs. We finally did find a place and ate like pigs. In fact, we did I eat pig.
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