A different perspective Part 6?
Trip Start
Aug 28, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 24, 2008
Rothenburg ob der Tauber,
Bavaria,
Germany
Sunday, September 7, 2008
On the bus to Rothenburg. I thought that Bacharach was a quite German town, but Rothenburg is like my Christmas village. Totally Dickens like, cobblestone streets, signs above the doors indicating what the shop or restaurant is. Again lots of flowers hanging out of window boxes and cafes with outside seating to people watch at the town square. After a short orientation walk we stop at a sausage shop for a sandwich and head to the wall that surrounds the city. You are suppose to be able to walk around the whole town, but we had to walk down a tower and. couldn't find the entrance back. We wandered around a little bit and founf a quaint garden with a beautiful view of the wall and the town. The leaves are starting to change here a little.
On to the Crime and Punishment museum. It was quite intersting that much of the punishment was towards embarassing the offender in the public square. There were many torure devices also and the laws of the time were very well spelled ou to include the punishment.
St. Jakob's churh was next. There are 3 amazing altars in the church. One is considered the best display of woodworking in all of Germany. As compared to sitting at staring at paintings, we enjoyed staring at the amazing woodwork.
Time for shopping....Steve sat down at a cafe and I headed to a giant Xmas shop. There was so much to see it was a little overwelming! I could not resist getting at least one ornament and a cute litlle Bavarian girl smoker. A smoker is for burning incense.
We had dinner as a group and the met in the town square for The Nightwatchman's tour. In medieval times the Nightwatchman guarded the town. The Nightwatchman had a dry sense of humor, just up my alley! It was vey entertaining. The town was saved from being bombed in WWII because the General on the American forces remembered is Mother talking about visiting Rothenburg and how lovely it was. He made a deal with the town to occupy it and they agreed. Tourism is their main economy.
We passed up the chance to go To Hell (name of a pub here) and headed back to the hotel.
