[September, 2012] In this short trip in Germany, I was quite impressed by German cooking, much better than my expectation. This is another good one I ate in Frankfurt, a knuckle of a pork. When…

[September, 2012] The chubby man in black is the owner of the voice. This is Roemerberg in Frankfurt, Germany. He was singing a song from operas.Germany is famous for its classical music and it is…

[September 2012] In Germany as well as in the UK, Sundays seem the day for railway repairing. Because of that the journey from Gemstones area in Germany to Frankfurt was not easy. We had to…

[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…