04-10 Sunday
"Romancing the Road"
Rothenburg
Whether: Cool, fine
Famed for its romantic scenary is a route running between Wurzburg toFussen called the Romantic Road. Apparently lots of medieval towns and beautiful country side. There are bus tours for around Euro43 each that run the entire length (approx 12 hours) but we were advised that Rothenburg is worth seeing if you want to save money, and we could reach it by train. Well over two weeks of travelling meant we are getting slower at rising in the morning and we had to pack to check out as we are catching the night train to Italy, Bologne so it was not until 9.44am that we were on the train. Four train connections later we were beginning to understand why our guide book suggested going toWurzburg directly (further north), then backtracking and catching a train to Rothenburg. By 1:30pm we were wandering the cobbled streets of the walled medieval town. Rothenburg is famed for its Schnellballs (partly cooked dough balls sprinkled with sugar, chocolate etc) about as big as an orange. Many shops specialize in them but the idea of eating a dough ball was not appealing. And we figured it was not something that had caught on in other in other towns (e.g. Pizza) soit could not have been that good. We walked along the entire wall andthen aware of the lengthy journey back to Munich we caught a train toWurzburg then Wurzburg to Munich (three train connections less than the journey there)
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