As I already stated, we had our domicile in Suhhl at my son's place. Elizabeth, my second wife loves the city and enjoyed very much to go on her own using public transportation.
She went tanning, swimming in the Ottilienbad and shopping - all on her own. She learned some German when we lived for one year close to Munich and she works as a nurse in a nursing home with many German residents.
Suhl is already part of our basic travel guide for Thuringia. But nevertheless we show sow some more pictures is this sightseeing overview.

Public transportation brings you directly to the downtown area with all the stores, coffee shops, boutiques and restaurants.
It is still filled with live and very clean. People love to go there. Naturally there are also supper stores, but the are in the outskirts. Suhl is smaller than Welland where we live, but it has a much better infrastructure and offers much more to visitors. In addition the surrounding Thuringian Forest is a benefit which we do not have.
After the unification much renovation has been done and you see buildings in the old socialist style mixed with renovated old houses.
Unfortunately, much of the former industry folded up and only few new jobs could be created. That means that many young people had to move away and the remaining population is getting older and older.

Elizabeth did not ask a single time to go to a McDonald's which is naturally also present in Thuringia and prefered by young people and kids.
We checked one out, the offered food is slightly different to Canada and you must pay extra for ketchup, what I thought is a rip off. Hopefully they will change that!
Elizabeth loves her work and she did not get lots of time off. For that reasons she had to leaver earlier.

After my wife has left I was on my own to explore Thuringia. My son was busy in his company and was not able to spend all day with me.
I soon became the impression that I already had seen more from Thuringia than he did. On the other hand, he had been in areas of Canada which we never had visited.

I created a brief web site about this hotel, because you can see it almost from everywhere around Suhl. I was excited about the panoramic view which you have from the mountain top where the hotel is located.
I would use this as place to stay in Suhl - it offers so much and they supported me with pictures. Other places did not even respond!

The city of Meiningen is very close to Suhl and can easily be reached by using the "Autobahn". It has a well know theatre and Harry loves it.
Please visit our web site in our basic travel guide.

A beautiful fairy tale castle, called "Schloss Landsberg" is located very close to Meiningen. It as another place where you can stay if you enjoy medieval surroundings and are willing to climb stairs to you rooms. I cold not see any elevators. They were not common hundreds of years ago and they would destroy the authentic atmosphere of this place.