Easily reached from the motorway, the Best Western Queens Hotel Pforzheim-Niefern, Niefern, Germany, sits between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe near the city of Pforzheim, with spacious refurbished rooms, free parking and Wi-Fi, a restaurant serving international and regional dishes, and a hotel bar for an evening drink. Around the hotel lies the countryside of the Enz valley, with Pforzheim and the northern Black Forest within easy reach. Motorways link quickly to Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and the wider region. Pforzheim is known as the Golden City for the jewellery and watchmaking that have shaped it for centuries, a tradition told in a renowned jewellery museum. The town stands at the northern gateway to the Black Forest, where wooded valleys and long ridge trails begin, the Enz and its sister rivers wind down from the hills, and spa towns and vineyards dot the surrounding country. Quiet roads climb south into the dark Black Forest.