Day Trip to Wernigerode!

On Saturday we were invited to go to a town about 2 hours away on the train by a colleague of mine at Inlingua (Language School). She is an American and also a Christian who doesn't attend our church but lives in Dessau. So we thought it would be fun to get to know her and her boyfriend named Thomas who is a German guy. The town of Wernigerode is a medieval city that survived WW2 and also doesn't have a lot of concrete block apartments and therefore mostly untouched by the communist days. It's really nice town with a great castle overlooking in the mountains and it's a real tourist attraction mainly for Germans and is somewhat undiscovered by Americans. Here are some photo's of our day!

Amie & London in the marked square,

the fountain is from the 18th century.

The castle, some outer walls

are from the Roman times

Part of the medieval wall that still remains

London with her bratwurst

Typical medieval half timbered houses

One of the surviving town gates

The Schloss Bahn (Castle Train) takes you up to the castle,

London thought it looked like Thomas the train

Oldest church in town built in the 13th century

Here is London in the old guard tower

Amie and London in front of the museum taking a break

It sure is green here! Nice change from the desert!

Neat old house in town, entire front is made of hand carved wood

That was our day on Saturday!

Thanks for sharing with us.