Hesse, sweet Hesse

[hmpf]

Where else, except perhaps in the American West, can you find towns and villages as appealingly named:

- "Friedlos" = "Peaceless"
- "Lieblos" = "Loveless"
- "Sterbfritz" = "Die, Fritz!"

There's also "Romrod", which contains an amusing palindrome for Tolkien fans, and kind of confirms my long-held suspicion that my home country is the source of all evil.

Then again, there are places like

- "Sechshelden" - "Six Heroes"
- "Sinn" - "Sense"

And, of course, the inimitable

- "Wolfgang" (nicely complemented, at the other end of Germany, by Lower Saxonia's "Achim")



(I'm buying a train ticket to get to this weekend's To Be Frelling CONtinued.)