how could i forget it? well, between allersberg in franconia and silesia in poland there was a night spent in schwarzenberg in the erzgebirge mountains in saxony. schwarzenberg is a really nice small ore miners (bergmann) city with the historic upper old city and its lower districts neustadt + vorstadt (=> uptown + new town + suburbia).
to be honest, my most persistent memory from erzgebirge is how difficult it was to find s.th. to eat 🍴. okay, there were only few small towns in the hlls and it was saturday evening 'between lunch and dinner time', buuuuuut we couldn't find any open / ready to serve restaurant in the city lauter-bernsbach (best know for its lautergold distillery) few km before the gates of schwarzenbach. in our hotel in schwarzenbach there were limited seats all pre-occupied by reservations due to corona restrictions. we were sooo hungry that we have decided to drive down the road and look for a restaurant. 15 minutes later and 10-12 km away we have found the village of breitenbrunn close to the chech border. our 1st trial there, the ratsstübel, was ready to close, but the 2nd trial, adners gasthof und hotel was open and not reserved for a wedding celebration or the like! unfortunatelly, that does not mean, we could eat immediately as the dinner for the hotel guests started at 6. know we had to bypass loooong 1.5 hours of our lifes. of course, we regretted a lot we did not eat in poland before the german border, but afterwards are we always more clever than before, aren't we? at least we've got some coffee + beer and it was warm there. my ready to die wife ordered an apfelstrudel in sheer despair ... if you asked me, the whole kitchen was either frozen or bewitched or both, thus her apfelstrudel with a hot vanilla sauce came maybe 10 minutes before the regular dinner time. i could not tell you what did we eat that day, but what i can tell ya for sure is their salad bar at 06:00:00 rescued my life ... #hungeristhebestcook 😅
however, i liked the erzgebirge (ore mountains) a lot. its landscape remembered me of the slovakian ore mountains (slovenske rudohorie) around einsiedel an der göllnitz, where both my parents were born.
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