Hessen Park & Marborg

hi its Tait,
yesterday was great we went to hessen park, a place where they take old houses from villages and rebuild them in the park, most houses were from the 1700's.while we were there i had my first German pretzel and it was huge, I loved it. We also saw an old style potting wheel, with a lady making pots. It was very interesting, and she did it so quickly.

After Hessen Park we went to a roman fortress. it was almost 2000 years old. we went into the mueseum and looked at everything that was found by archeologists when they looked through the area. The things i found most interesting were all the kitchen utensills... like a funnel and a kitchen sive. I also found it interesting that their garden tools were the same shape as those we use in our own garden. There were also shoes and bits of woollen fabric that had been preserved because they had fallen into a well, and kept away from oxygen. They were over 2000 years old. After going through the mueseum we went for a walk in the forest and Darcie, Frazer, Julia, Alf and I had an akorn fight. It was fun!

Today we went to Marbourg, the birth place of Martin Luther. We went in the castle there and it had an exhibition about a princess called St Mary who built a hospital and nursed sick people. then we drove down to the town and walked around shops with lollies, artwork, music and clothes.

We went to a restaurant and had three traditional German meals. One with Bavarian sausages and a mustard and herb dip, the 2nd was noodles with onion, cheese melted on top and baked in an oven, the 3rd was potatoes with sour cream and salad that had a yogurt based herb dressing. We ate on a balcony overlooking the town. Then we walked around a bit more and stopped in a lolly shop. We saw lots of chocolate things like soccer balls, soccer players, cars, beer bottles and horses... all made from chocolate. Afterwards we walked a steep hill and back around to the car and drove home.