{"id":14023,"date":"2024-12-01T23:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=14023"},"modified":"2024-12-01T23:08:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:08:48","slug":"my-epic-germany-trip-day-10-castle-174-madenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=14023","title":{"rendered":"My Epic Germany Trip – Day 10 – Castle #174 Madenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m blogging about my 60th Birthday Trip to Germany last June<\/a>. Now I’m up to my last full day in Germany, which was Thursday, June 20.<\/p>\n

As every day, I started out with a delicious breakfast at Waldhotel Heller. Then that day I decided there was some shopping I wanted to do before I left, so I headed for downtown Kaiserslautern and the Fu\u00c3\u0178g\u00c3\u00a4ngerzone. (Basically that means – foot-walker zone or, yeah, Pedestrian zone.) The grand bookstore Gondrom wasn’t there any more, but there was another bookstore in the same place.<\/p>\n

I took a few pictures in Kaiserslautern:<\/p>\n

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The name of this shop made me laugh:<\/p>\n

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I did make a couple of great finds at the bookstore. Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe<\/em> is the German translation of The Screaming Staircase<\/a><\/em> and is absolutely perfect for Sonderling Sunday<\/a>. The Ebbes game is a fairly simple card game, but it’s got a Pf\u00c3\u00a4lzisch translation and includes a map of the Pfalz – so it’s a perfect local souvenir.<\/p>\n

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After that, alas! The amazing bakery in Enkenbach where I used to go with my German coworker Elfriede with any excuse at all, but particularly on my birthdays – that bakery is no longer open. But I had been craving Erdbeerk\u00c3\u00bcchen (fresh strawberry cake) on every birthday since I left Germany, so I wasn’t about to leave without getting some. The second most legendary bakery from our time in Germany was Cafe Goldinger in Landstuhl – so after shopping, I headed there for lunch and finally got myself a slice of Erdbeerk\u00c3\u00bcchen.<\/p>\n

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Okay, once that was done, I’d checked off the places I simply had to revisit for nostalgia’s sake. So how would I spend my last afternoon in Germany? Why, visit a new castle, of course. I’d decided to head south, in the Pf\u00c3\u00a4lzerwald near my hotel, and headed for Madenburg.<\/p>\n

Once again, it took some ignoring GPS. I actually asked a German about parking, and got good advice to drive a little further. It was still quite a hike up to the castle, but I like hiking, so it’s all a win. Once there, another castle to roam around with a great view.<\/p>\n

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The view from a German castle is always wonderful! (Rather than moated castles, they’re pretty much always built on hilltops. At least in the Pfalz.)<\/p>\n

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This picture shows perfectly what I mean when I say I spent a lot of time driving through hilly curving forest roads.<\/p>\n

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And there was a castle restaurant!<\/p>\n

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The salad I ordered was delicious and filling. (I was tired after the hike up to this castle – it was over a mile.)<\/p>\n

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Then it was back for my last night of Balcony Reading at Waldhotel Heller, and the prettiest sunset yet to send me off.<\/p>\n

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I’m blogging about my 60th Birthday Trip to Germany last June. Now I’m up to my last full day in Germany, which was Thursday, June 20. As every day, I started out with a delicious breakfast at Waldhotel Heller. Then that day I decided there was some shopping I wanted to do before I left, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-14023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-germany-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14083,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions\/14083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}