Took train at 11:45 for Cologne. Lack of water all the five
or six hrs. almost perished. At C. 5:55 P.M...
Cologne Aug. 8 --Thursday
Took a guide who showed us the Chapels of the Three Kings . . . . [Here she gives a detailed history of the cathedral.] . . . By boat on the Rhine to Coblenz. . .
. We took our first German beer. . . .
Friday Aug. 9 Coblenz to Wiesbaden
To Stolzenfelz by car, long steep winding, beautiful walk to the
Castle. [details of the castle] . . . The two last days [in Germany] are among my pleasantest in Europe . . . .
Here began Ima Hogg’s lifelong
love of Germany. On this visit that she may have begun a fateful romance with a
young German (a musician, perhaps?) but she was careful to keep that out of her
diary.
Saturday--Aug. 10-15 Wiesbaden
Beautiful town but have been resting so completely haven’t seen a
thing but the park by the front and the magnificent Kierhaus across. Music
all day. Germany is adorable. Germans kindly and homely. Wednesday to
Frankfurt. ...Goethe’s home...From train walked up Kaiser Strasse gazing in
fascinating shop windows. . . .
How much can we read between the
lines?
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