 |
| Cuckoo clock (wooden clock) and traditional German 'dirndl' are famous here |
I wonder why some people might recognize this
area as a 'fairy land'. What's up black forest? What do you know or heard about
the black forest (BF)? Cake? Perhaps yes. But it is more than a cake. Pulling
the hand break from my daily business, I came here to breathe the real
Schwarzwald's atmosphere. Unlike her neighbour the Bavarian district, BF (not BFF ya!) has
much fewer big cities and more calm. Freiburg is the biggest, I guess. As far as your eye could see, the forest
here seems quite dark and weaved with sharp tapered pine trees. Well, I guess that’s
why they call it 'fairy land'. It's no wonder Brimm brothers from the
neighbouring Hanau region had written so much folklores and fairy tales. Hansel
& Gretel, Red Riding Hood, Cinderella etc....see? The base of those stories
is the German forest (Mowgli and his wolf pack story was set-back in an Indian
jungle indeed). As a foreigner, I see this place shall be or I might say,
supposed to be Germany's pride.
