Weinheim, Germany

... Rhein River which is amazingly beautiful, drove past the Lorelei rock made famous by a song, and down into in the evening to Weinheim, in Germany. Nothing special here, the hotel was on the side of the road and after dinner a few of us went for a walk and ...

The whole time we were there we were trying to figure out how to get this castle you could see in the distance, and so we gave it one more shot. 

... differences were outside of the big cities.  There were castles and forests, just like in the storybooks.  I was in western Germany most of the time, so I didn't get a chance to see the Bavarian countryside, but you could find the Bavarian ...

We arrived a day after Danny boy's birthday, so that evening we had a belated celebration at local Italian restaurant.  The next morning, after the boys left to school, we hit the road to explore Weinheim.