When we visited Thuringia in 2006 to proceed with our Internet tourist guide for this "new" state of the reunified Germany we came through Tabarz on our way to a meeting. It was on one of the few rainy days but we liked very much what we saw. Especially the "Tabbs" an impressive spa raised our interest. So we decided to come back and to include this village of about 4500 people in our travel guide. We did that on a beautiful day after the heat wave has started in Thuringia.

It is always helpful to have the first stop at an tourist office. You can get many helpful information there. Occasionally even in English as in Tabarz. We were very pleased about that.
We parked our little Citroen rental car just opposite of the tourist information at a well kept little park.

Tabarz has more attractions than the super spa "Tabbs". It is also well known as a health resort which provides treatments according to pastor Sebastian Kneipp who has many followers in Germany.

Naturally we were hungry after all the activities in the ":Tabbs" which was the main purpose of our visit.

Please be aware that good wheat beer is very often cloudy. That comes from the healthy yeast. Do not complain and if you have it at home, please do not be as foolish as an American colleague who run it through a coffee filter. That is not good for the image of your country!

Later I read in a newspaper that one former citizen from Tabarz opened a Thuringian restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is called the "Deutsche Hof" has a "Maibaum" which I only know from Bavaria, but in the colors red-white and it shows the German flag. An attraction is the beer garden which is probably off limits to all Talibans. The name of this adventurous man is Günter Völker and his favorite place if he come home is the "Felsenthal" where we had dinner.
Visit the web site of the "Deutsche Hof" the web site of Deutscher Hof Kabul
Elizabeth made her first experience with white asparagus many years ago. It was not a good experience because she did not follow my advise to peel it before boiling. After she tasted white asparagus when it was prepared properly she became addicted to it. It was asparagus time in Thuringia and whenever she got a dish with white asparagus she tried it, asparagus cream soup, asparagus salad, raw asparagus (peeled) which nobody knew that this is edible. So she ordered also her an asparagus dish. I had rouladen.