The Romantic Road

At the start of the of the Romantic road we stayed in Wertheim a small town by the river. We explored the town which was full of small crafty shops and the odd busker. We found the tourist office to get information about the Romantic road and then climbed the hill above the town to a castle. We explored the old castle and climbed the tallest tower where we had a view over the river and spotted the camper. Along the Romantic Road were small medieval towns. The first one we stopped at was Rothenberg. It had a medieval wall around it which we followed for awhile then we went into the town square. The town was famous for its cute “Christmas/Fairytale” shops. We went in one and it was full of sourvineer like dolls and cuckoo clocks. There was German music playing and all the toys you could imagine. The ceiling was covered in leaves and branches like a Christmas tree. The town was also famous for its SchneeBall or snowball in English. It is a pastry cut up and tangled in a ball then deep-fried and covered in sugar, chocolate and numerous other mouth-watering flavours. We tasted a sugar and cinnamon one and decided we want to make them. The next town we went to was Dinkelsbuhl. We walked around the medieval town. The houses were all different pale colours and showed the frame between the plaster. We saw lot’s of kids going home for lunch down the little cobbled alleyways. The church in the centre was impressive. The interior was similar to Notre Dame. In the next town (Nordlingen) we walked along the medieval wall all the way around the town. The town was an exact circle because the town was built on an old meteor crater. From the wall we could always see the tall church bell tower in the centre. The houses colourful window boxes full of flowers. One night we parked opposite a gypsie fair being set up and we got stuck in the little streets of that village. We drove past two massive solar farms and lots of the orange tiled roofs are covered in solar panels. Our last night on the Romantic Road we stayed in a camperplaatsen by a lake with a automatic wakeboarding course on it and played in the rain.