Over the past couple of years, we have made some nice trips, and I have been remiss on posting about our travels. I am going to try to recall the highlights, mainly for my own memories 😊
For some time, I have been wanting to visit Berlin in Holmes County Ohio, Rhonda's place of birth and where she spent her early childhood. I'd never been there, and a few weeks ago, we finally made it! Click on the Berlin link to see a really good drone video of the main drag through town. We stayed on Main Street at The Berlin Cottages, and again, click on the link to see a nice video. Our unit was The Country Bliss Cottage.
On our way to Berlin, we stopped over in Goshen to visit relatives and friends, and hit a couple of our favorite spots - the Goshen Brewing Company and the Olympia Candy Kitchen - Pad Thai Tuesday at the former and pork and olive sandwich at the latter.
In Berlin, we walked and drove around as Rhonda brought back many memories - their house that started out as a basement house, and is currently apartments; several places where her grandparents DD and Maggie Miller lived; the graveyard where the kids would play kick the can; and houses where her friends lived. It was a bit disappointing to see that virtually all of the homes along Main Street are now touristy businesses, and that all of the big trees along Main are gone. We ate at Boyd and Wurthmann which has been around since 1938, bought some cheese and Trail baloney at Guggisberg Cheese Factory, got some delightful pastries at Miller's Bakery, and had some good beer and food at the Millersburg Brewing Company.
Interesting tidbit - pronunciation is BURR lin, not burr LIN - "During the anti-German hate hysteria of World War I, Berlin changed the pronunciation of its name from Ber-LIN, as it is pronounced in Germany, to BER-lin to avoid suspicion and persecution."
At The Guggisberg Cheese Factory
