M&M's Stories: A Sorta Fairy Tale ...

As we got into the car to leave Bacharach, I was quite sure that I had already seen the quaintest town on this trip. I was wrong. Three hours later we were in a walled medieval town called Rothenberg on the stretch of Germany known as the "Romantic Road" and i was amazed. The town essentially looked like a well-illustrated fairy-tale come to life! In addition to walking around town and eating a fabulous Italian meal (German food just doesn't do it for me), we spent some time in the Museum of Criminal Punishment and walked on the city wall containing the town. The museum was not very well organized, but quite informative, and the walk was wonderful.

From Rothenberg, we got into our little Citroen Picasso and sped to Bavaria. As we got closer to our destination we watched the temperature drop from 19C to 13C and I was quite sad. I then looked out of the window and was charmed yet again. I could see rolling green hills everywhere - with a variety of trees. The shades of green were dazzling and the Alpine peaks in the backdrop only made the sight more fantastic. Soon we were at our hotel in the middle of nowhere - the directions on the hotel website literally said: "Turn left after the school and find the hotel in the middle of the fields". Exhausted from our adventures, we ate our dinner and crashed.

Today, we woke up to a bright and sunny day - one which promised to be much warmer than 13C :) We hiked out to see the famous castles in Bavaria - Hohenschwangau where "Mad" King Ludwig grew up and Neuschwanstein, which King Ludwig built - and which inspired the Disney castle. Both castles were beautiful and we definitely got our exercise for the day with the hike between our hotel and the castles and one between the castles themselves. We had a really fun day!