Ross and Beverley: New Braunfels

New Braunfels was established in 1845 by Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels, Commissioner General of the Adelsverein, also known as the Noblemen's Society (in German: Mainzer Adelsverein). Prince Solms named the settlement in honor of his home of Solms-Braunfels, Germany.
The Adelsverein organized hundreds of people in Germany to settle in Texas. Immigrants from Germany began arriving at Galveston in July, 1844. Most then traveled by ship to Indianola in December, 1844 and began the overland journey to the Fisher-Miller Land Grant purchased by Prince Solms.^[4] At the urging of John Coffee Hays, who realized the settlers would not have time to build homes and plant crops further inland before winter, and as the German settlers were traveling inland along the Guadalupe River, they stopped near the Comal Springs. Prince Solms bought two leagues of land from Rafael Garza and Maria Antonio Veramendi Garza for $1,111.00.^[5]
Sunday afternoons are designed to be relaxing so we decided to go to the movies ( more on this to follow). Following which we decided to have a late lunch at the Hofbrau restaurant in NB which is about 15 miles from from where we have our RV.

There is a sturdy bull which guards the entrance to the restaurant.

Inside on display every horned creature that can be found in the USA.

The restaurant is located on banks of the Guadalupe River. The Guadalupe River runs from Kerr County, Texas to San Antonio Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a popular destination for rafting, fly fishing, and canoeing. Larger cities along it include Kerrville, New Braunfels, Seguin, Gonzales, Cuero, and Victoria. It has several dams along its length, the most notable of which, Canyon Dam, forms Canyon Lake northwest of New Braunfels.

There is every type of Margaretta available.

It serves Weiner Schnitzel with all of the trimmings;

German Pizza.

& a delicious finish of a fruit cheesecake.

We went to the movies to see the film, The Imitation Game, it was excellent, at The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema which is an American cinema chain founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas, USA and is famous for its strict policy of requiring its audiences to maintain proper cinema going etiquette as well as being served food and drink to your cinema chairs. It has screens in eleven locations across Texas in addition to locations in Winchester, Virginia; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Kansas City; Littleton, Colorado; Ashburn, Virginia;[1] and Yonkers, New York, with others to be built in Los Angeles,[2] San Francisco; New York City;[3] Chandler, Arizona;[4] and La Vista, Nebraska.[5] Its headquarters is located in Austin.[6]
This handsome gentleman was there to welcome us.