Dear loyal reader, do you remember from one of my previous posts, what the capital of Michigan is? Nope, it's not Detroit. And indeed it's the same Lansing that no-one else but people, who live in and very nearby of Lansing has ever heard of. But I didn't want to write you about Lansing, that I've yet to see by the way. But Detroit that is not mentioned enough in this blog, but is a great city.
To start with, there's so much of abandoned - factories, neighbourhoods, main railway station, bank buildings in downtown and basically two third of the city, right. And second, from the shore of Detroit river or on Belle Isle one can almost touch Canada. It would also be possible to cross the bridge or take the tunnel and visit Canada for a day or two, but since I have little trust in the immigration on this side, I'd rather not test it. So, we keep looking at Canada from this side of the river.
Detroit also has my favourite brunch place. It's the one, where I don't have to read the menu and make my choice between 16 different stacks of pancakes, 7 waffles, more than 20 omelets and variety of burgers, but can sit down and place the order for my salmon bennies. The same ones that have hopefully already been praised in this blog - English muffin (why they call this bun a muffin, I can't explain to you) topped with cream cheese, smoked salmon, capers, poached egg and sauce hollandaise. And there are two of those piles on my plate, accompanied by lettuce or starting from recently also house french fries. Muy good!
We have decided not to focus on abandoned buildings (as we usually do), but educate ourselves culturally and visit an exhibition. Not far from the city center is Heidelberg Project. In 1986, the artist returned to Heidelberg, the street where he grew up on, and found it in shambles. Bruised by the loss of three brothers to the streets, he was encouraged by his grandfather to stand out from the crowds and to pick up a paintbrush instead of a weapon. Next few years he was painting the houses, carried out the stuff left in the abandoned homes, arranged all that stuff in different piles on the properties in the neighbourhood and the mammouth installation, known as Heidelberg Project had started. At the moment there are several artists, who contribute to the project with old shoes, toys and everything else one can think of. You can find there the Arc of Noah, which is an old boat full of huge soaked and soon probably mossy soft toys.
After the mentioned art exhibition, where we had the chance to exchange few words also with the extremely non-talkative artist himself, we went down to the Riverwalk, hopped on the bikes and made around 6 miles along the riverfront. On the positive side, both of our sides got equally red from the blazing sun.
Last stop before driving home was the Detroit Eastern Market, where accordingly the season we got tomatoes, apples, peaches and some lamb koftas. There's also a Polish stand, where in the middle of the summer we could have bought fried dumplings, different huge sausages and sauerkraut.
To start with, there's so much of abandoned - factories, neighbourhoods, main railway station, bank buildings in downtown and basically two third of the city, right. And second, from the shore of Detroit river or on Belle Isle one can almost touch Canada. It would also be possible to cross the bridge or take the tunnel and visit Canada for a day or two, but since I have little trust in the immigration on this side, I'd rather not test it. So, we keep looking at Canada from this side of the river.
Detroit also has my favourite brunch place. It's the one, where I don't have to read the menu and make my choice between 16 different stacks of pancakes, 7 waffles, more than 20 omelets and variety of burgers, but can sit down and place the order for my salmon bennies. The same ones that have hopefully already been praised in this blog - English muffin (why they call this bun a muffin, I can't explain to you) topped with cream cheese, smoked salmon, capers, poached egg and sauce hollandaise. And there are two of those piles on my plate, accompanied by lettuce or starting from recently also house french fries. Muy good!
We have decided not to focus on abandoned buildings (as we usually do), but educate ourselves culturally and visit an exhibition. Not far from the city center is Heidelberg Project. In 1986, the artist returned to Heidelberg, the street where he grew up on, and found it in shambles. Bruised by the loss of three brothers to the streets, he was encouraged by his grandfather to stand out from the crowds and to pick up a paintbrush instead of a weapon. Next few years he was painting the houses, carried out the stuff left in the abandoned homes, arranged all that stuff in different piles on the properties in the neighbourhood and the mammouth installation, known as Heidelberg Project had started. At the moment there are several artists, who contribute to the project with old shoes, toys and everything else one can think of. You can find there the Arc of Noah, which is an old boat full of huge soaked and soon probably mossy soft toys.
After the mentioned art exhibition, where we had the chance to exchange few words also with the extremely non-talkative artist himself, we went down to the Riverwalk, hopped on the bikes and made around 6 miles along the riverfront. On the positive side, both of our sides got equally red from the blazing sun.
Last stop before driving home was the Detroit Eastern Market, where accordingly the season we got tomatoes, apples, peaches and some lamb koftas. There's also a Polish stand, where in the middle of the summer we could have bought fried dumplings, different huge sausages and sauerkraut.
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