View of the City of Rothenburg from the wall.
On the wall, looking into the city.
Our Pension (Boarding house)We woke up that morning, had breakfast, stopped at the Info Center and "got out of Dodge". I know Augsberg must have many many beautiful sites, but we were done with that city and decided to continue on the Romantic Road and forget our last evening. Traveling by car through Germany is wonderful. Randy was so surprised that snow sticks to places that are not mountain. He had only see snow in mountains and figured that was how it was. Our trip up the Romantic Road proved that one wrong, there was snow all over, but not on the Autobahn (freeway). Our traveling was nice today, at a very comfortable pace. We looked through towns and even walked up a church tower. I don't remember how high that was, but I will say it was REALLY high and very scary because beside walking up the old wooden stairs there was a walk way outside of the top where you could walk 365 degrees around the tower. I think we could even see the Munich Olympic monument, maybe not who knows. Munich was only 70 miles the way the crow flys. It was in the City of Nordlingen. We also found a quaint little Gasthof Zimmer Frei there, so if we didn't find anything we liked further on, we could always go back there. Gosh this trip was beautiful, we stopped in so many little towns, some of which were ones we stopped and really looked around, like Harburg with it's castle or some just were good with a drive thru view. This was a wonderful day and boy did we need it after last night. We ended up in the Medieval city of Rothenberg. This was the town to stay in and again we went to the Info center and they booked us a room, but we decided to walk the town to see if we could get better on our own. Anne likes to have a room half booked just in case it gives her peace of mind. Anyway while walking the town we found Zimmer Frei in the window of the local market. Quaint, cute and nice. The owners, father Eric and son Klause, were great, they showed us 2 rooms, one with a bathroom/shower and another with the bathroom down the hall. For almost 15 euro a night less, we chose the no bathroom. This was fine the first night because we were the only people. Next night we shared the bathroom and these people didn't know much about the sharing thing because they took the key to the bathroom and left their stuff in there. Again all our night stays included breakfast which included lunch meat, thin sliced salami, ham, boiled eggs, juice and coffee and of course kaiser rolls. These breakfasts were good, filling and full of protein. The next day we spent the whole day in Rothenberg, not leaving the Pension until after 11am and we walked the wall that enclosed the entire city. The town was so beautiful and had such a history. We took the walking tour with the NightWatchman and that was very informative and fun. The Christmas market didn't open until Friday night and we were leaving Friday morning, but it was still nice. There were many many stores especially Christmas stores. We loved this town and felt it was the best place we had stayed in and an all around great city. We want to come back in spring to bike the Romantic Road. We had dinner both nights at a small local place which served wonderful food, great beer and reasonable prices, what else could you want.
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