Saturday, October 29, 2016

Rothenburg, Wurzburg and Berlin

Sitting here in our hotel room in Berlin, Germany I'm finding it hard to believe this amazing trip is almost over! We had the BEST time! Saw so many things, ate so many delicious foods and walked til we couldn't walk anymore! We are definitely ready to go home but we sure wouldn't mind coming back! Europe is absolutely gorgeous! Sure hope you don't mind the overload of pictures! Enjoy!

We were only in Berlin for a few hours but I got a couple of pictures of some old buildings.


And a mushroom

Here we are looking down from a castle we went to in Wurzburg, a town north of Rothenburg.



Palace across from the castle

Inside courtyard of castle

Underground entry





This is a palace and it is beyond beautiful! The gardens are amazing!










And  last few pictures of Rothenburg













And in the middle of this medieval town we found a huge guitar store!

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Rothenburg, Germany

We have been in Rothenburg, Germany three days and what an adventure! We left Venice and took a train ride north for 7 hours. Sounds crazy but it was beautiful! A good part of it went through a part of the Alps! Gorgeous! We had to change trains 4 times, that was interesting, but they were all on time luckily and it all went very smoothly. One short part when we were in our own small room type seating three young border patrol police joined us. Very nice and interesting. They told us how they ride 5 different trains every day looking for refugees sneaking into Germany from Italy. A problem that has gotten worse the last few years. And then we arrived in Rothenburg! A small medieval town in the middle of Germany! Beautiful, peaceful and full of unbelievably nice locals! Hope you enjoy the pictures!






Our view as we are walking from our apartment up to the town.

This is a pear tree! All over this town there are apple and pear trees up against the buildings!

Vines all over









This is a farm, The house is on the left and the barn is on the right.



Many of the stores or cafes open their windows to serve drinks, pastries and ice cream




I love all the tile roofs!

This wall surrounds the whole city


Inside one of the bigger towers

Foot bridges everywhere


Our foot path to our apartment, a bit of a climb but gorgeous!