Blogs from Melsungen, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Today's schedule included a look at the historic Fachwerk houses in Melsungen and then coffee and cake mid morning, this is Germany and that's like compulsory! Once we got back to the smaller village outside Melsungen where i am staying, we went for a 5 minute walk to an animal park. Welll actually it was a 25 minute walk to the animal park through a nice forest path and along a little road accompanied by rain at times. Found some ripe blackberries and had a little taste....memories of childhood and picking them around Ashburton! Melsungen's history goes back many thousands of years but real habitation began around the late 1100's with people living and working in this area as workers in the nearby forests. The church is one of the oldest buildings in the area with ... read more