A church built into a rock
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…
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Grinding gemstones is a hard work
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…
Visit a gemstone mine
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…
Enjoy gemstones
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…
Medieval Herrstein
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…
Potato sausage
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…
German foods are interesting
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…
Malachite is a by-product of copper
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…
White radish
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…
