[September 2012] Oberstein in Germany is famous for its gem stone business, but another speciality here is this Felsenkirche, a church built into a natural niche in the rock. You can see this from the…

[September, 2012] What do you think this man is doing? Here is the gemstone grinding watermill in Idar, Germany. As you can see, workers lied on their stomach and put the stones on the machine…

[September, 2012] There is a gemstone mine in Idar, Germany, which is the only one open to the public in Europe. Here they can get four kind of stones such as agate and jasper. From…

[September 2012] There is German Gemstone Museum in Idar in Germany. There are more than 10000 exhibits from all over the world. It is worth a look. I got very much interested in the stones…

[September, 2012] At the tourist office of Idar-Oberstein, we were strongly recommended to visit Herrstein. This is a very pretty town with medieval houses. The timber framed traditional houses are from 15th century, and the…

[September, 2012] I continue talking about German foods.This one is 'potato sausage' I ate in a town called Herrstein.The very slim waitress, whom I cannot imagine she eats this kind of heavy foods, said 'It…

[September, 2012] The representative of German food is sausage, but not only that. In this short trip. We ate quite a few interesting foods in Germany. This one in the photo is ‘liver dumpling’. It…

[September, 2012] There are some things I learned by visiting German gem stone route. One of them is that the beautiful Malachite can be dug from copper mines. The workers dig the place where the…

[September, 2012] I did not know but German people often eat white radish.When I had the local dish in Oberstein, a small potion of radish cut into thins trips was added next to the main…