From the crusaders to the castle lords.

On cruise ships, it will be very good live. But what if one of the endless sea voyage after years of weary of is? One option: Mr. Burg to be on a 800 year old castle in Franconia.

 

Crusaders are sophisticated guests. People meet here and there, tells of traveling to Africa or the Indian Ocean, is exchanged on the quality of ships, slaps on Masters, met on board people who are already on other ships has to know there is a small and familiar society based on high-quality boats on the oceans schippert. But not only the passengers as it goes.

Stronger is the volume of the lake or the crew. Three months on the "Sea Cloud", year on the "Bremen", a contract next season at the "Hanseatic", a coming and going; Housekeeper, Bartender, shop manager, chef, the professions, there are many.

Not everyone believes the tight space on board, is made in this microcosm, where freedom and confinement are so close together. Who made this, you can hardly leave them, too, there are numerous moments in the stranger, to the exciting encounters. But sometimes it is simply not on board, children want their parents to miss no more, members are to maintain the desire for more space is urgent, Constance is desired. Then, only to settle on land.

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Issue No.74
Topic Title: Monsoon
June 2009

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Some try to miss the sea, the fickle, are unhappy, almost mad yearning and go back to the ship. Not so Christian and Ilona Schneider and her two children. They have become masters castle.

At night by three to roost Abenberg. The courtyard is empty, silence, blackness, a steep staircase, the handrail narrow considerably the height of a sky with many stars from the town below is nothing to see. Is it the imagination, which goes through with a? In this medieval castle in Mittelfranken begs the thought of a ship on gently.

Is it the stories of the evening, talking about the world of the crusaders, the Hermetic, which each ship is unique? So as the self-completed area of the castle Abenberg: a restaurant, a museum, a few rooms in the tower, a thick wall that surrounded the whole thing. Microcosm roost. Fern the rest of the world.

So it must have been in the Middle Ages. We in here, its out there, just like on a cruise ship. The world beyond the railing is alien. Delightful mostly, sometimes hostile. Inside, however, does the same eternal rhythm of sleep and wakefulness, cooking, Auftischen, removing the rhythm of a very orderly life.

A passenger on the couple "Europe" was it that Ilona and Christian Schneider jumped ashore fond presented with a tip that the Frankish castle Abenberg in new tenants need. When the two are actually committed to the years of seafaring behind them, they did not own. They hired a whole crew together, people with whom they are already on many ships had worked together - the chef, the receptionist, the Maître, the Chef de Partie, the upper waitress, all former crew members.

Cruise community to roost Abenberg

The Schneider and her team have given the restaurant a more modern and luxurious nature, when it Abenberg were used to. No more hearty farmhouse kitchen, the food has been refined, subtly renovated the cellars, the dishes match; morning there are only jam in porcelain bowls, the superior taste is recovered.

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The inhabitants of the small city with its crowded houses only had to get used to it that the great world come to them is that the chef is a much-traveled man, all sorts of exotic brings to the plate. And that even the guests arrive from far away. Indeed, precisely because crusaders guests are sophisticated, they also visit the castle Abenberg.

At the inauguration ceremony, they were all there, the celebrities, to the ships as an entertainer have occurred, the passengers, while the directors are friends, crew members, it was a single rendezvous. People who are otherwise interrelated by Yemeni cities were, asian cookshop tried lifeboats crew or between parties to celebrate, they sat together that evening at a mighty castle in Bavaria. And talking of the sea.