tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post4433154927721311038..comments2024-03-29T12:39:30.010+00:00Comments on Paul's Beer & Travel Blog: Wuppertaler Brauhaus - May 2017Paul Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-46098685740031051322017-06-06T22:45:34.890+01:002017-06-06T22:45:34.890+01:00Another "must-visit" for my list,then !
...Another "must-visit" for my list,then !<br /><br />Incidentally, the much loved/mocked IndyManBeerCon is held in the public baths in South Manchester, one of the few fests I look forward to due to a great setting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-45857367008521906662017-06-05T20:34:00.623+01:002017-06-05T20:34:00.623+01:00Thanks Matt, for that fascinating insight. I hadn’...Thanks Matt, for that fascinating insight. I hadn’t realised that Wuppertal was a linear city; largely because we had used the Schwebebahn to travel the length of the Wupper valley. I was therefore under the impression that the city was one big sprawl, but having now looked at a satellite map of the area, I can that it isn't.<br /><br />I also hadn’t realised that Wuppertal was Engels’ home town. I’m really pleased our tour organiser took us there, as the city probably doesn’t figure in many tourist guides; proving, yet again, that some of the best and most fascinating places are to be found well away from the well-trodden tourist routes.<br />Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-1543397948990315332017-06-05T09:17:21.152+01:002017-06-05T09:17:21.152+01:00I went to Wuppertal last time I was in the Rhinela...I went to Wuppertal last time I was in the Rhineland a couple of years ago to visit the industrial museum in Barmen and the house next to it where Friedrich Engels grew up. It's one of the world's first linear cities, running along the Wupper valley rather than having a single centre, and the architects who designed similar settlements in the Soviet Union cited Engels' later comments about integrating residential, industrial, educational and recreational spaces to help break down the divisons between urban and rural areas, work and education and to some extent social classes which I'd guess were at least partly influenced by the example of his home town, rather than separating them into different zones, as he had lately seen in the slum housing and textile factory hellhole which was then my own home town, Manchester, in which the better off living at the outer edge of the city never saw the largely Irish immigrant poor who lived and worked at its centre.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387170913578542671noreply@blogger.com