Germany

[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] 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] Do you know that there is a gem stone town called Idar-Oberstein in Germany? I got to know this through a magazine and had wished to go there. And now my dream came…

[July, 2011] This is a statue of a monkey located at one end of the Old Bridge (Alte Brucke) in the old town in Heidelberg, Germany. According to the leaflet I got from the tourist…

[July, 2011] When you cross Neckar River in Heidelberg’s old town to the other side, there is a walking path called Philosophers’ Walk (isn’t there a path with the same name in Kyoto?). This walk…

[July, 2011] In Heidelberg in Germany, they were having the Bridge Festival for Karl-Theodor-Brucke (Alte Brucke), the bridge over river Necker. The musicians were all rather old and the audience who were dancing along the…