Wernigerode
After the big city feel of Berlin it was time to see some of the more beautiful towns in Germany. Berlin is mostly square concrete boxes, with graffiti everywhere…. as..ugly as! We’ve moved to a small city called Wernigerode . All the centre of town is old style German building, WOW beautiful. Our park-up is a short 800m walk into town. The town is a place where Germans come to see the town and when you’re walking around town you get the feel that there isn’t many international visitors.
Over-looking the town is Schloss Wernigerode (castle). We took the yellow tractor-trailer (dressed up to look like a train) up the hill and had a look. The Schloss is a real castle, not like the palaces we have been visiting. Great views over the town and the timber work in the Castle (WOW). The German’s have been great craftsman for forever.
It was also very nice sitting at a coffee shop in the town square watching the town come to life.
We’re going to take a steam train up to the highest peak (Brocken) Elevation = 1,143 meters. It’s a rainy day and we don’t expect to see that much, but looking forward to the steam train. Actually lots of steam trains, couldn’t tell just how many, but there was 3 or so at each station we pulled into. The ride up and back was great, at the top just rain and cloud. But there was a charming restaurant for a hot chocolate and a slice of apple crumble.
Schloss Wernigerode
Toot toot here comes the train - Steam Train to Brocken
