We picked up our hire car (a one way rental dropping off in Berlin in a week's time) and headed for the Romantic Road. Our trusty GPS helped us a lot - it's bad enough driving on the wrong side of the road, at least we didn't have to worry about getting lost.Our main destination for the day was Rothenberg-on-der-Tauber, a medieval walled city that's very well known, the old walls are intact, and the old buildings are very well preserved (apparently it has also been used for a number of movies).
We walked around the town and also along the walls, and into the castle gardens. The views over the river valley were amazing,we could also see far below a stage being set up for a music festival which was to feature Iggy and the Stooges - M was disappointed that we weren't going to be around for that, it would have been a great setting!There were tourists everywhere, though it thinned out at one point when it started raining. For afternoon tea we shared a "schneebal" (snowball), one of the local pastries - they look tasty, but as it turned out it wasn't that nice, just some pastry loosely rolled into a ball and sprinkled with sugar.
We had booked accommodation out of town in a place called Steinsfeld, as we had a car we now had the luxury of staying in cheaper places out of town, especially as many of the older towns have very narrow streets and limited parking. However as nothing was open in Steinsfeld we had to come back in to Rothenburg for dinner anyway!
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