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Weinachts, the Sixth

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros

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... we sat like a good slow driver in the right lane !!! And after a couple of hours, we arrived at our first destination. Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber Growing up, like most kids, I saw the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and as the town square from Vulgaria was ...

Now my feet really hurt

A travel blog entry by scootergal

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... back to the town square and had a very average apple strudel and a less than average coffee. (I miss Italian and Greek coffee). Rothenburg has the most bakeries I have ever seen in one town and all of them sell schneeballs, the sickly sweet pastry we had ...

Now THAT was a tour !!!

A travel blog entry by scootergal

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... , dressed as a night watchman, had a booming voice - enough to carry to the entire crowd. He orated the history of Rothenburg in a very interesting and entertaining way, then moved off through the town, with the crowd following en masse - just like the ...

Rothenburg day3

A travel blog entry by erblair

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10/12/2011 Rothenburg day 3 - Rich Great day in Rothenburg. After excellent breakfast at our hotel we went to a house that dates back to the 1300's that is a museum and looked around. We then took a walk outside the city walls to ...

The Romantic Road and Rothenburg

A travel blog entry by dancer_alison

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... it's every 2-3 minutes! Everywhere we looked, it was green fields dotted with red rooftops and a church spire poking through. In Rothenburg we checked into our hotel (The Golden Rose). We we given a lovely room in the garden house. ...

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

A travel blog entry by lar4290

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Saturday in Rothenburg

A travel blog entry by pucketts

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... had a great breakfast at the Rotes Ross.� Then we got in the car and had a scenic drive to the outer wall of Rothenburg where there is plenty of tourist parking.� There are bus loads of tourists that are brought to the Christmas market on day trips.� ...

Is it Christmastime Already?

A travel blog entry by melepua

... expand or progress with the times, so it remained as it was for hundreds of years. Finally, when Germany united and rebuilt its economy, Rothenburg finally had money. By 1910, tourism started becoming popular (I am reading right now that this ...

Well here we are again several of you dear ...

A travel blog entry by janice

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... it) for 700 years. A must-see if you visit this area. That afternoon we drove to Rothenberg on the Tauber in Bavaria (southeastern Germany). The drive (more autobahn) was beautiful and the town is one of the best walled medieval towns in Europe. ...

Museum of Medievil Punishment!

A travel blog entry by jasndan

Today was a lazy day..we missed breakfast, again..even though the alarm went off. A sleep in was had until around 11am, I did my hair and had a shower and then we went out in search of food and sightseeing. We walked around a bit trying to find a nice ...

Of all Things Medival

A travel blog entry by koontzfan

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... brief story, told to me by the night watchman, about how the city was saved from destruction during WWII. It appears Rothenburg was a secondary target for bombing and since it was so foggy over their primary target they decided to bomb the ...

Little medieval bavarian town

A travel blog entry by kristinj

We stop by this town for one night. The town is unique because it was never modernized or built any new trendy buildings after the 30 year war, so they happily maintained the town for 250 years. Well, that worked out for ...

Life in the dark

A travel blog entry by n2history

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From Sankt Goar we continued along the autobahn to Rothenburg ob der Tauber. This is a tourist mecca along the “romantic road”, but school holidays had just ended for Germans, and the heavy tourist season is still weeks away. The next ...

You've been naughty

A travel blog entry by n2history

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... knowledge. Yikes! Numerous documents, such as treaties, proclamations, and histories were enlightening. A book detailing the executions in Rothenburg showed an average of one per year. Two of the reasons listed were adultery and bee stealing. Following ...

Rothenburg

A travel blog entry by erblair

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10/10/2011 Rothenburg, Germany -Rich Getting from Bacharach to Rothenburg. We check out and know we have to catch the train toward Mintz and Frankfurt. Have not been able to figure out all the train connections yet but figure we will be ...

Can you say Quaint?

A travel blog entry by jasndan

... looked at some shops and succumbed to the Schneeballen. The Schneeball is a fried then covered ball of dough stuff that is a speciality of Rothenburg. We got an original which was a bit .bleh to be honest, but we also got a Champagne truffle one for me ...

Rothenburg

A travel blog entry by albertabrandts

... , and then went to the main square for the evening Watchman's Tour. The Night Watchman's Tour is a bit of an institution in Rothenburg. A local man, I think his name is Georg, has been doing this for the last 18 years. Basically, he wears a ...

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

A travel blog entry by albertabrandts

Today we drove from Legoland, near Augsburg, to Rothenburg. This route took us north-west, up what the German tourism ministry promotes as the Romantic Road. The idea as far as I could tell, is that the road putters through lots of medieval ...

Bavaria, round two.

A travel blog entry by dabassisst

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I love Bavaria, what can I ...

Everything within these walls stays the same.

A travel blog entry by carriejustin

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Rothenburg is a very cute little medieval German village. The village is enclosed in a large stone wall and all the buildings inside the wall haven't changed, meaning there are no modern buildings to be seen. It would be great to spend ...

Lots of fun travel, and finally ending up in RODT

A travel blog entry by moneyb03

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... to Wurz and decided since we were already late we would just stop there for a bite and catch a little later train to Rothenburg. Fortunately the rains that moved across paris and france and germany gave way to sunshine this afternoon. We got to ...

Medieval Stopover

A travel blog entry by trent

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Rothenburg is known for its medieval old town which is encircled by the well-preserved 14th-century town wall. It was my last stop in Bavaria before catching my flight back to the US. ...

stepping back in time in Rothenburg

A travel blog entry by salisbury5

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... a bet with a general whose troops had just conquered the town during the Thirty Years' War. In winning the bet, the mayor saved Rothenburg from destruction. Then the night watchman came over and took a group of people on a night tour of the town. It ...

A Fairy Tale Day

A travel blog entry by overseas_ash

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... have been well behind. Especially with Lizzie's detours. Eventually just after six pm we made our destination for the night- Rothenburg ob der Tauber. This medieval town would be close to the most beautiful little place either of us had ever been to. ...

Rothenburg - True Medieval City

A travel blog entry by courtneycostas

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My parents are still in town and want to go see Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber, a city that Mike and I have never heard of - so we went. We weren't expecting much because - how great could it be if we've been here for months and have never even heard of ...

SUN DIALS, 5K FUN RUN AND BEER TENTS

A travel blog entry by dancejill

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... closed and there is a sign saying the alter is somewhere else. We have a look at the stream, buildings and then leave. Rothenburg is a beautiful town. When we arrived here we knew something was going on by all the cars in the parking ...

Driving Day!

A travel blog entry by jasndan

... was around 8pm. The gate entry was narrow and it had cobblestone roads, you have to have a permit to park in the walls of Rothenburg and our hotel had permission for us to park. The roads were narrow but the town was very pretty and our Gasthaus was easy ...

Romantic Road - Part 2

A travel blog entry by 4fromoz

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... , well, more of an inn really. Being the party family we are, we decided to hit the town straight away. Rothenburg is absolutely beautiful, as regulations require it to be pretty much perfectly preserved in all its medieval glory. Think cobblestone ...

Rhiannon hat Geburtstag!

A travel blog entry by alexengel

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... trip�plans were made last week and executed with splendidness...if i do say so myself ( ; We started our journey in Rothenburg od der Tauber (on the River Tauber), which is the last remaining full-enclosed medieval German town (at least that's what the ...

Schneeballin' in Bavaria !

A travel blog entry by 92.days.vagrant

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... to find your own “backdoor” while travelling. One of the things he suggests doing is the “Romantic Road” in Germany. We had a few spare days in central Germany before the Heinrich show near Frankfurt, so we decided to do this. The ...

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Weinachts, the Sixth

Now my feet really hurt

Now THAT was a tour !!!

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Saturday in Rothenburg

Is it Christmastime Already?

Well here we are again several of you dear ...

Museum of Medievil Punishment!

Of all Things Medival

Little medieval bavarian town

Life in the dark

You've been naughty

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Can you say Quaint?

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Bavaria, round two.

Everything within these walls stays the same.

Lots of fun travel, and finally ending up in RODT

Medieval Stopover

stepping back in time in Rothenburg

A Fairy Tale Day

Rothenburg - True Medieval City

SUN DIALS, 5K FUN RUN AND BEER TENTS

Driving Day!

Romantic Road - Part 2

Rhiannon hat Geburtstag!

Schneeballin' in Bavaria !