I finally made it! After a slightly problematic journey from Cologne, I arrived in Bad Kreuznach to meet my mentor teacher and settle into my new town. I was fortunate enough to have my parents with me which worked out really well in the end as my future flatmate was on holiday so didn't have a place to stay for the first night!
My parents were staying in a little village just outside Bad Kreuznach called Bosenheim which is surrounded by vineyards owned by local families who all make their own unique wine. It's called Weindorf Bosenheim - literally wine village! The place is lovely, a nice traditional aside to the more modernised town only a couple of minutes away.
Bad Kreuznach itself, whilst retaining the local wine growing flavour unique to this region, is a much more urban town centred on the main shopping street Mannheimer Strasse and the station which serves as the central point of the town. Like most German towns it has an altstadt (old town) and a neustadt (new town) and here the two are linked by a bridge which goes over the Nahe river and supports three Brueckenhaeuser (bridge houses literally) which run along it. These three buildings are two story high structures which are built off the edge of the bridge and currently hold shops but would have served as the gateway to the town.The altstadt is then much more traditional and has a wide selection of traditional pubs as well as the original castle and many museums.
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| The Brueckenhaeuser to the right |
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| The Nahe |
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| Some Kreuznacher humour |
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