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Romantic Road Tour – D4 / Rothenburg

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Today was spent in the picture postcard town of Rothenburg – or, as our wonderful friend Texan Vedic Astrologer Extraordinaire Joni Patry calls it, a “gingerbread” town.

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It was a free day for those on the tour to do whatever they wanted – including:

  • A walk along the top of the town’s ancient stone ramparts, which encircle Rothenburg.

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  • A visit to the magnificent German Christmas Museum

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  • Morning tea, which included a big slosh of Amaretto in our cappuccinos.

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  • A visit to the magnificent Kathe Wohlfahrt Christmas shop

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  • A visit to the St. James Cathedral – an integral stop along the German Camino

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  • Lunch, of course. My meal was Wild Boar goulash with dumplings… with a Franconia Riesling.

It was a wonderful relaxing day, to be topped off by dinner at our favourite Bavarian tavern this evening.

Christmas is everywhere along the Romantic Road. And what better place to spend these pre-Christmas days than in a town like Rothenburg –

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Romantic Road Tour – D3 / a chilly walk to Rothenburg ~

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Today we woke up to snow in Wurzburg .

At least we thought it was snow. It might just have been thick frost everywhere. Whatever it was, it caked the van, and took about 20 minutes to get it off the front windscreen!

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We drove out of town about 45 kms south along the Romantic Road to a small village, where I parked, then we headed off to walk the rest of the way into Rothenburg, a stretch of about 12kms.

It was chilly – about minus 3C – but it was breathtakingly beautiful. Later we would all agree that it was one of the most memorable walks any of us had ever done.

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We didn’t see one other walker, and only one or two cars on a walk that would take us nearly four hours, what with stopping to  take photos, or to simply marvel at just how damn beautiful it was…

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The cold didn’t bother us at all. We had a great time…

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After a while we dropped down into a valley where it was warmer, passing a magnificent Bavarian country manor house –

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Then we climbed up again and walked into Rothenburg, into the Christmas Markets…

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Ken and I took a cab back to the village to retrieve the van, then we all had dinner at a gorgeous Bavarian tavern. One of our group had a half roast duck – I would have liked to have seen the whole duck because the half was HUGE…

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And over dinner we high-fived to a remarkable day’s walking along a frozen Romantic Road.

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