Görlitz

My first weekend in Germany I traveled across the country to a small town called Görlitz. It is a small town virtually overlooked by U.S. tourists. Its historical sights are intact as the town was not bombed in WWII. I had a long weekend as Thursday was some type of religious holiday (the closest explanation I had was "Corpus Christi"). I spent most of the holiday on a train, getting there in the evening.

As I was walking down the street from the train station to my hotel, I passed by a sewing machine shop that was still open. I stopped into the shop because just inside the door was a big bin of yarn. I walked in to find this was a shop that had needlework, sewing, and knitting items. The big bin was sale yarn. Of course I bought a souvenir.



I forgot to take out the camera to photograph the shop. (Duh!) Again, yarn proved to be the universal language, as the people in the shop did not speak English. Since I had my luggage with me I pulled out my knitting to show them. Most of their yarn was acrylic, but they did have a bit of good quality wool. The sock yarn was typical 75% superwash and 25% nylon. There was A LOT of sock yarn - it seems to be as popular there as in the US.

I was tired when I got to the hotel so I retired for the night and then spent the next day wandering all around town. None of the hotel employees/restaurant employees I dealt with spoke English - but we still managed to communicate. It was nice to be in a place where I did not see american fast food restaurants. The town still has buildings dating from as far back as the 13th century.





This is the beautiful ceiling of the major department store in town.



The fountain in the square nearest to my hotel.



The town clock.



I wandered over one of two local bridges to Poland to see a building built to honor Kaiser Wilhelm.







During my wanderings through town I stopped at 2 churches. I found this statue interesting - Jesus as "The Thinker."



And this is the promised picture of the yarn bought in Wetzlar.



I spent 2 nights and 1 day in Görlitz, then headed to Wittenberg. Stay tuned...