Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany

Externsteine has been a major destination for a leisurely Sunday outing for the past 200 years.  This location of the Teutoburgerwald accomodates 13 free standing sandstone boulders towering upto 40 meters high. Even my grandmother (born in 1910) ...

The drive from Frankfurt was a mere 3:15 h, and was located about 30 minutes off the highway tucked away in a dense forest and next to a beautiful pond that fed the mill after which the Hotel Silbermühle was named. The Hotel Silbermühle www. ...

... at its highest point in the center of Germany spanning from east to west.  It is best known in Germany for the famous Hermannsschlacht, the battle of Hermann in 9 a.d.,  i.e. 2000 years ago.  In this battle of Hermann, ...

Hermannsdenkmal ist a monument depicting the Germanic tribe leader Arminius responsible for defeating the Roman armies in 9 AD.  The 53 meter high statue located on the Teut hill was started in 1838,  but only completed in 1875, after ...