European Adventures - 29. Last full day in Germany

29. Last full day in Germany

We enjoyed our day, having a fabulous breakfast at the hotel.

More Cheese

Cold Cuts and Cheese

Sweet Cakes and Rolls

 

Breads

Fruit and Toppings

So Many Cereals

More Fruit

CANADIAN Maple Syrup

Cereal Toppings - Nuts, Dates and More

Jams, Jellies and Condiments

Real Honey Direct From the Hive

Hot Table

More Hot Stuff

This is a really classy place; it serves the best of the best.

Love Those German Breakfasts - Are You Hungry Yet?

Our walk around the neighborhood led us to take some pictures that seem common but give us some memories.

Sooooo Good

We had a Zimbabwean peanut soup for lunch, which included vegetables and couscous. Served with some French bread it was delicious. 

Zimbabwean Peanut Soup

We tried to enter the Russian Orthodox Chapel but it was closed for the day.

Carol craved an ice-cream and when she went to the ice-cream parlor the girls there all gawked at her Tilley Hat, with all the pins on it.

The personnel of the ice-cream shop wanted to look at each pin, hear about each country Carol had visited. It was fun for Carol; she later returned to the store and gave each of the employees a Canadian Flag Pin, so now they can start their own collection.

Schreinerei Pfeiffer Restaurant

Dinner was at an old Carpentry Shop, converted into a Restaurant.  The Schreinerei Pfeiffer served good basic food and beer and we ended a wonderful day.             

Sign Over the Door Indicates a Carpentry Shop

Inside the Restaurant is Decorated With Carpenter's Tools

Ah, let me explain what ‘Bad’ means; as in Bad Homburg, or Bad Ems or many other German towns with the name Bad in front of the town’s name.

 “Baden Baden” being a double name meaning Bath-Bath.  

  

It’s a therapeutically oriented bath I am talking about. It’s part of the German health system. Your Doctor can ‘prescribe’ a ‘Kur’ for you. You take this ‘bath’ to be cured of whatever ails you. You are prescribed a spa treatment, not where you get pampered but where you have to exercise in a certain way. Kneipp was a Doctor (Priest)  who lived a ‘healthy’ life and advocated his methods to the Germans. He might have been a forefather of Holistic Medicine by using herbs and water therapies. Not all Bad-towns use the Kneipp system.

A town like Bad Homburg is certified to give people some health benefits using a Sanatorium, which gives certain other Spa treatments; mud, massages, etc. Bad Homburg is famous for the natural minerals found in the water that comes out of the local spring. You drink this water and get well; using just natural ways, no pharmaceutical pills, needles, etc. you get well. 

Not all cure places (Bad) use his methods, there are many different treatments available and each “Bad”-town seems to have their specialty. It is up to your Doctor to prescribe the right treatment for you. He will send you to a Kur that he feels will benefit you.

For German’s those cures are paid for by their health system.

Some towns, like Bad Homburg have also private treatment centers… where you pay for everything out of pocket. 

Believe me there is a huge difference between being treated privately and Government paid treatments. Bad Homburg is a top of the line Private Spa town.