This article is written by Sathish K, a Software Professional and travel writer, based in Bangalore
On saturday we had gone to Friedburg. To reach this place since we wanted to go by slow train which is cheaper than going by ICE train. By the way, ICE is the fastest trains and it just zooms past before you can react.
This is the starting point of Black Forest. This place has got lots of Museums.
The travel was little horrible to reach the destination, close to 3hrs of travel. We had to take a train from Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Offenburg – Friedburg. By the time we reached there it was close to 4:00 in the evening and the Tourist information centre was closed by then.
We went into a museum which had the artifacts of houses in age old days, the utensils, the jewellery. There were also the equipments used during war times, the chest guard, the shield and many other things.
We walked around the market place to reach the cathedral. The cathedrals are so huge and tall ( I dont know why they are such big). This cathedral is not big as the one we saw in Worms but almost there. We went inside the cathedral to have a closer look.
Then we just loitered around for some time. There were some guys playing music on the streets for money. Since its a month for Christmas there are these special markets which are put up in all cities. In the market there are grass setup as if they represent the church bell and used for other decorations also.
I liked one shop where one can buy a candle for 2 euros and then color it by himself by dipping in a solution of color. Different color solutions are kept in big jars. I remember that during school days there was something called pF factor. I believe this coloring also works in the same principle.
One other thing which I have noticed in other cities is that in the sides of the road there is some path for water to flow. It looked more like drain but of course the water looked to be clean without any smell!!
Probably if we had gone there early then we might gone near river side for some more shopping. Anyway there is always a next time.
Sathish K
28 Nov 2011
