{"id":14084,"date":"2024-12-01T23:46:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=14084"},"modified":"2024-12-01T23:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:46:44","slug":"my-epic-germany-trip-day-11-hofheim-with-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=14084","title":{"rendered":"My Epic Germany Trip – Day 11 – Hofheim with my Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been blogging about my 60th Birthday Trip to Germany last June<\/a>, and I’ve finally reached the last day, Friday, June 21.<\/p>\n

I had another wonderful breakfast at Waldhotel Heller, packed up my little Fiat 500, and headed north on the 63 Autobahn – the same one we drove so many times going to the airport, that wasn’t even connected up to the other Autobahn when we first moved there. (So a new, straight, flat Autobahn with very little traffic began near our house. I got used to driving at high speeds on that road. When it was connected up, it was a little sad to lose that, but it was also quicker to drive to Ramstein.)<\/p>\n

My flight didn’t leave until 5 pm, so I went to Hofheim, right near the airport, where my friend Jeanine lives. Back in 1998 or so, Jeanine and I were both married to members of the USAFE Band, and we hit it off when she and her husband moved there. And then she got a job at the base library where I was already working, each of us sharing a job, so working 20 hours each. And we got to know each other better. Jeanine ended up marrying a German and staying in Germany – I always envied her a bit for that. But it was delightful to see her!<\/p>\n

First we had lunch there in the Zentrum of Hofheim.<\/p>\n

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I’d actually gone all that time without eating Schnitzel. This one came with a green sauce that was delicious.<\/p>\n

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Jeanine’s apartment overlooks Hofheim.<\/p>\n

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And then Jeanine took me on a lovely walking tour of the Altstadt.<\/p>\n

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The old city wall of Hofheim is still standing in spots.<\/p>\n

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Since it’s a fortification and over 100 years old – built in 1352 – I decided to count it as Castle #175.<\/p>\n

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I still love those onion dome churches so common in this area.<\/p>\n

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And then it was off to the airport and flying back to America.<\/p>\n

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It turned out that my 10-day trip was just about perfect. I’d been able to remind myself of the many things about Germany that make my heart happy, see friends, make new memories, and I was coming home refreshed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been blogging about my 60th Birthday Trip to Germany last June, and I’ve finally reached the last day, Friday, June 21. I had another wonderful breakfast at Waldhotel Heller, packed up my little Fiat 500, and headed north on the 63 Autobahn – the same one we drove so many times going to the […]<\/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-14084","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\/14084","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=14084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14096,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions\/14096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}