Exploring with Sarah - Höchst

Gary took a day off from his work in the archive and went exploring with Sarah and me.  We have these awesome transportation tickets - we can go to so many places within Frankfurt and the surrounding area.  We decided to go to the end of the line on the Strassenbahn #11.  Wanling, Gary and I had ridden it quite far a few weeks previously and had the inkling that something amazing lay a few stops beyond where we had stopped.  We were right.  We ended up in a little town called Höchst.  It is amazing when we get a bit away from the center of town; many times the architecture has been very well-preserved.  So you see us walking around the town - with our jaws dropping from the beauty.  The town has a lot of Fachwerk (Tudor style architecture - I guess we call it half-timbered).  Höchst is known for its porcelain, we learned.  We also saw a big piece of the city wall, and watch tower well-preserved.  You can see that this little town lies on the Main River, and if we hadn't had to zip back into town to pick up Wanling, we could have walked a long way along the river path - maybe all the way back into Frankfurt (the Germans have walking paths everywhere - even in the woods, or in the fields).  I also included a sculpture entitled "Krieg" (War) that was placed at the base of the city wall.  The last picture is Höchst from a distance at dusk.