You know you're a history buff when you take an AP European History course, learn about the Peace of Westphalia, and spend a weekend in a city just to stand on the steps of the Town Hall where the signing of a Peace Treaty was announced.
Not necessarily where it was signed. Just announced.
I went to the city, which is beautiful and historic and completely wonderful for an enourmous variety of reasons, to stand on some steps.
And "es hat sich total geloehnt". It was completely worth it.
The Rathaus (town hall) had a small museum inside it, which breifly explained the war, the Peace Treaty, and why both were so historically significant. Although most of the exhibits there had only small explanations with very large, complex german words and grammar, it didn't really matter. You could really feel the history that was there.
After a short warp back in time, I went went to "Maifest" later in the evening; an open air festival with a series of concerts and stages scattered throughout the town center. Very, very crowded, and very, very cool. "VETO" (danish, I believe) and "Annasaid" (english, think) both had really new and interesting music.
I must admit: I am usually not a big fan of synthesizers and such, but the way VETO blanced everything out was mega interesting. Check out the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2wBfu49lAk
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