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Do you sometimes have the feeling, no matter where you go, Goethe was already there, many, many years ago? 🙂 Lately we hiked the Goethe path in Rheingau and in Harz we climbed in the footsteps of Goethe to the Schnarcherklippen and we are sure you can add many more places to our list.
When we went to visit our dear friend Per Magnus in Weimar, Goethe was celebrated there at nearly every corner. The Ginkgo tree next to the Fürstenhaus in Weimar is probably the tree with the most visitors in Germany, but this Ginkgo is not famous because of Goethe’s botanical interest, it’s because of this poem Goethe wrote:

Es ist zum Mäusemelken, wo immer wir hinkommen, Goethe war schon da (Masterchen fährt so gern in die Arktis, um Goethe zu entkommen 😉 ). Im Rheingau wanderten wir auf Goethes Spuren wie auch zu den Schnarcherklippen im…