I am really glad that I decided to pay Münster a visit. It has a really strong college town feel (which I always love), with over 50,000 students, and there are tons of cyclists, book stores, and health food stores (where I can buy a liverwurst-like spread made out of smoked tofu - it tastes great on my morning brötchen). It has been raining here off and on, and there were about twelve or so rain showers here today that I noticed. This is a picture of St. Lamberti church with the sun sparkling on rain-soaked cobblestones in the center of the Altstadt. If you click on the photo twice you can see three metal cages above the church´s gold clock dial. In the sixteenth century some Anabaptists declared Münster the headquarters of their new religious paradise. The catholic authorities decided not to join and instead promptly tortured and threw the three main instigators into these metal cages to die high above the town. There are a couple of other interesting cathedrals in town, one of which houses a giant statue of St. Christopher, the patron saint of travelers - the statute is actually holding an authentic giant tree trunk in his hand as a walking staff.(9/21/04)

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St. Lamberti Church, Münster, Germany