So after breakfast I plugged the cities into a route on my Montana GPS, we loaded up and headed out. In a neighboring village, we found a Märchen museum, but once again it's only open on Sunday afternoons. Back on our route it was time to marvel at the fields of grain that are starting to turn yellow, listen to the throaty throb of the mighty R1200GS twin, and twist our way through quaint little German villages. Most of today's route was on new roads to us.
Our first stop in Hessich Lichtenau yielded one picture of Mother Hulda and we headed off to Bad Sooden Allendorf. The tourist information office there was very hard to find but we did find the Grenzmuseum on our own which is devoted to memorializing the border wall. It had a good collection of military memorabilia from both sides and a preserved section of the wall, towers, and fencing plus lots of displays about the wall and how it affected German life. If the arbitrary border went through a building, the Soviets tore it down. Farmers were separated from their fields and families were separated. It was a sad time in their history. We left the museum and went back into town to find the TI office and eventually found it in the center of town. We learned the location of the Sunday Grimm Bros play and enjoyed one of the best smoked salmon salads we've ever had at place called Cheers!
The next two cities had the best fairy tale parks of the trip. The first one in Mackenrode is not on the current fairy tale map, but needs to be. The second, in Heilbad Heiligenstadt, was hard to find and we had to ride on some pedestrian walkways to reach it (just call us hooligans) but so worth it.
Our last stop after a harrowing experience of riding on some unmarked freshly chip sealed road was at a small museum in Ebergötzen which was closed, but we got pictures of Max and Moritz as well as a nice antique waterwheel and the European Bread museum before heading for our hotel via the autobahn. We got home around 8pm and had salad for dinner.
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