Travelin' Tuesday!

It's late, but it's still Tuesday!  I forgot to get this up this morning since we were headed out the door on a family excursion, so here it is now.

Our next stop on our Germany trip was the well known, touristy town of Rothenburg. 

 It's a big tourist spot for a reason.  

Every street is like a postcard.  

 It's just beautiful.  

It has the stone wall running around the old part of town and so much history packed inside. 

 We took the night watchman's tour and learned quite a bit.

 We watched the sun go down and shine beautifully on the town.

Watching the light fade over this pretty town was definitely a high point of the trip.

 See the doors at the top of this big building?  I found out that they were for food storage way back in the day.  It was a law that you had to have a year's supply of food put away to feed your entire household and the attic was the only dry place to put it.  They would use a pulley system to hoist it up there.  As a food storage lover, I found that interesting.

Here I am, trespassing to get a shot of the garden gate.

 This is a stinkin awesome water wheel that we stopped to take pictures of on our way to Rothenburg.

Even though I kind of frown at being the typical tourist, I have to say that I loved my visit to Rothenburg, Germany.

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Pretty church in Kitzingen, Germany

 We visited a pretty little town near Wuerzburg, called Kitzingen.  The main trademark of this town is this leaning tower.  The story that I was told was that there was an evil man--the man that inspired the Dracula story- that lived nearby.  He did bad and scary things, and when the villagers finally caught him and killed him, they put his heart into the top of the tower.

 On the other side of the street, is the cemetery where his body was buried.  This is me looking at the grave.  Lots of skulls and scary things on it.

 The story says that if he and his heart ever come back together, he will come back to life.  The tower is leaning that way because he is calling it back to him.... Ooooooh.

 Probably just some story for the tourists, but it is kind of cool how the tower is leaning toward the cemetery and if it fell, it looks like it would land on that grave.

This is the palace in Wuerzburg, not to be confused with the fortress that we walked up to.  This is right in the city and has beautiful gardens.  We walked around forever, just enjoying the flowers and trees, the sculptures and the little garden hidy-holes.

Travelin' Tuesday!

 I'm back for another edition of Travel Tuesday! I do apologize for the number of pictures, but this is my favorite place.  I lived in this city for almost 7 months back when I was 22.  There is a big fortress on the hill with vineyards and a river below.  It's just beautiful to me.

Downtown shopping area.

The Maypole... not a great picture.

The Main River.

The foot bridge over the river.

Statue on the bridge.

Looking up at the hill we are about to climb.

Beautiful chapel on a neighboring hilltop.  We walked up that hill too.

Me, looking lost in a vineyard. 

Looking down on yet another church.

Travel Tuesday

 While between destinations, we passed through this town.  It was just so pretty, we had to stop and take some pictures.

The name of the town is Shoenberg, which literally means, beautiful mountain.  Well named, I thought.

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Here are some more pictures from the Germany trip I took two years ago.  We traveled to a town called Landshut (pronounced more like landsuit), where my husband spent some time.  I don't have any good historical stories from this town, but I did try on a traditional costume, called a dirndel. 
Every four years, this town puts on a big re-enactment of a wedding that happened way back in the day.  We happened to be there the right year, but too early to take part in the festivities.

 

Travel Tuesday!

For the past several weeks, Trisha over at Roundabout has been taking us all on a tour of France, sharing pictures from her travels.  Seeing her pictures has made me want to share some of mine, only I've never been to France.  I've been to Germany.  My husband and I took a trip almost exactly two years ago, and something about the spring and all this rain has made me a bit homesick for my beautiful Germany.  So, you get to read about it.

This is the old court house in Bamberg, Germany.  The story is that the someone owned all the land and wouldn't allow the town to build a court house without spending a crazy amount of money.  So the people dumped rocks into the middle of the river and made an island and built the building there, since the person didn't own the river.

And this is the building I lived in about a decade ago when I spent time here on a mission.  See the windows in the roof?  That's where I lived, in the attic on the near side.  By far the coolest place I've ever lived.  That building was so old.  I found out it used to be a tannery back in the 1400's.  The floors weren't very level.  If you spilled your juice on the floor,  you had to run to catch it and clean it up.  The windows looked out on the courthouse from the first picture.

And this is the doorway of a 1000 year old church.  I don't know why I didn't take a picture of the whole church, it's pretty cool, with lots of tall spires.  I was so interested in the doorway and the stonework, that's all I took pictures of.

Not all my travels have such in-depth stories, I just happened to start with a town that I know and love.  More touristy places will be coming soon.