Behind the Old Iron Curtain,

The Harz region behind the old iron curtain is amazing place to visit Annette and i went for 4 days saw amazing buildings old mines chemist shops that had been a chemist for 1500, very old churches, old pubs, we did not book any hotels and had no trouble but you need to find one by mid afternoon. there is just to many photos to put here. so just a few,

a view of a castle in Wernigerode from the Harzquerbahn (steam train) , we stayed in a hotel right opposite the station (above the bedroom window pic)

a steam train to Brocken from Wernigerode there 27 steam engines all working here its slow and packed with German tourists. but we were lucky and went early and came back at lunch time it was 6 deg at brocken the highest part of the Harz mountains in the north.

this is the very very old town of Quedlinburg and most of the town streets here were never meant for cars, horse and wagon yes . but they do drive them around the cobbles, which have been there for ?? so don't bring stilettos you don't see girls in them, there is a shortage of made footpaths in any of the streets in most towns outside of the major cites. sign is cheesecakes and were they good. yes.

Quedlinburg this is the Romenesque structure Collegiate church of the Servatius built between 1017 and 1129, The pic below is inside a small string band was playing the beatles song and some classical, A bit of Culture in such a old church. its very hard to photo the age or size of this church.

the Rauthaus (Rart-hoose) in Quedlinburg behind the iron curtain it is the town house, city centre, it all is a UNECO hertaige site. his Rathaus was built in 1400 .