Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/07

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Subject: [Leica] European travel query
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Wed Jan 7 06:39:29 2009
References: <3344337F75534D299A254CBC46CAA40B@dadquad>

Frankfurt has good public transport, and good shopping too.

Regarding Solms;  the best thing is to spend at least a night in
Wetzlar, (60 km from Frankfurt) hopefully with a rental car.  A
reasonable hotel is the Hotel Wetzlarer Hof. It is on a park, and in
walking distance of the old town that has been largely restored.

Solms is a small industrial village a few minutes outside of Wetzler.
 After you've finished the Leica tour, (which will take much longer to
set up than to actually do,) there's little else to do in that town.

Instead, leave the village, and instead of turning left to return to
Wetzlar, turn right.  Soon you'll leave the valley, and get into some
hills, and off to the left will be a village with a storybook castle
like none you'll often encounter in Central Germany.  Braunfels is a
furnished castle, and they even have a rude little cafe. It is the
original castle of the counts of Solms dates back to 1250. It houses a
wonderful collection of art. Well worth a visit.

Some shots here:

http://www.sonc.com/german_tour_95/target3.html



On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> 
wrote:
>
> A question especially for the EuroLUG folks.
> What's the weather like in Berlin and Frankfurt in June?
> Must see places that are easy to get to?
> Easy to get around by public transport?
> how hard would it be to get to Solms?
>
> I'm just askin'
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
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Regards,

Sonny
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USA

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