366 Photos - 311 - Sunday - Holiday Day 13 - Burg Gutenburg and Bad Wimpfen

[byslantedlight]

Burg Gutenburg and Bad Wimpfen - aren't those glorious names? *g* We're going back in time - two weeks! wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey-sci-fi-type-music-etc... It's a Sunday! We're still in Germany! How perfect is that?! *g*

I wasn't going to show today's roads, because my camera battery was sooo low - but I couldn't resist. I kept seeing castles, and asking is that Burg Gutenberg? and Mr Maus would say no, not that one... *g*

...but then there it was - Burg Gutenberg (but no (close) relation to the printer/bible). It was tall and tower-ish, and this was the view from the window-hole in the wall of the toilet!

Looking down from the top...

There was a museum too, with books... *g* I loved these botany-collection books - so clever!



Off to Bad Wimpfen next!

More gorgeous half-timbered houses, and funky buildings!

Sadly it started to rain when we got there. We had to shelter in a local eatery. Tragic. *g*

Still, we held up, and it stopped raining, and we went for a wander, finding pillared views...

Rooftops and rivers...

And this is where I make a confession of being really quite stupid... See, I didn't bring my camera battery charger to Germany. I had two full batteries! A full battery will last weeks and weeks and months even. Unless you're on holiday in Germany and taking nearly two hundred pictures a day... *headdesk* So here's me relegated to using my camera phone. Which also has a poor battery now that it's five or six years old too... Luckily, milomaus is lovely and came to the rescue with her tablet camera! These three pics are all hers - isn't she good? *g*

So we soldiered on through the gorgeously medieval streets! I took pictures of random windows... ...and Milomaus took pictures of sewing shop signs. *g* I love that so many shops had signs like these though, rather than writing SewingIzUz or something stoopid... Show, not tell is alive and well, and making streets look gorgeous in Germany! *g*

Street whimsy, skinny alleys, and random doors...

Ghostly figures! *g*

Courtyarded houses (Milomaus again)... ...autumn ivy and the iron house (which is actually the same house as the Schmuck House above, but from the back!)

And then it was time to go home... but there were more fab things in store! Baumkuchen (Tree cake)! So good - it's made on a spit, turned round and round to get tiny-thin layers into it, and its flavoured with marzipan and vanilla, two of my favourite flavours (well, this one was). Yum! And then - it was spaetzle night! Proper, homemade spaetzle, by Milomaus and Mr Maus - noodles made fresh in a spaetzle maker, and then baked with fried onions and cheese - so good! *g* And local wine to go with it, which was also very good indeed. *sighs happily*

Comments

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Yay bonus trip guide! The architecture is really amazing, I've enjoyed seeing the houses.

Never had spaetzle, in fact not even heard of it, but it sounds good.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Bonus trip! Almost like being back there... *g* Well.... *g** I loved the buildings in Germany, lovely curving rooves and windows and wee alleys and interesting bits! And even ordinary houses tended to be different to each other, unlike housing estates over here!

I'd never heard of Spatzle either, but it was yummy! *g*

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

I totally forgot about the Spätzle... *gggg*

And my fotos are just that good, because I asked you all the time.
Alright, maybe some are alright. *gg*

It was such a fun time! I love the holiday diary, I have to save them, it's so great to be reminded of the things we did!
And there are still two flashbacks waiting. Yay!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

There are two and a half flashbacks waiting - I still need to finish Heidelberg too! *g*

It was such fun - I wish I was still there, it's far less fun to work here on my own! And not eating Spätzle. *g*

Your photos are good on their own - love the one of the courtyard, for instance! Besides, remember how many photos I have to take to get just a few that are worth posting... *vbg*

Glad you like the holiday diary... it's nice to look back on things like this! Now - if I can just get on with work today, maybe I could write another one!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Yea, more trip pics! I love the castle photos, but I think I prefer the ones of the town. It's so picturesque! Cobbled streets and homes with that unique black-and-white style of walls.

My camera uses batteries, so I always travel with about three or four of them, though I did end up having to use my iPhone a couple of times to take pictures. They came out fine, but I still prefer my camera.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

More trip pics! *g* Bad Wimpfen was gorgeous, I have to say - a really really pretty town! The houses with those walls are called "half-timbered", and they really make a town look homely somehow!

My phone camera has better resolution than various other cameras I've used in the past - but I missed my Nikon when I couldn't use it! Can't believe I was daft enough to purposefully leave the charger at home, but I really though that my two batteries (they're bit Lithium jobs!) would be plenty... I'll know better another time! *g*

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Ooh the books! And the skinny alleys :D

And heh, I feel like a bit of a Bad Wimpfen myself some days...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I loooved the books in the castle! Actually there were books near the skinny alleys too - we came across an outdoor bookcase of books, like a book exchange, just there in the street! There was a person in my pic, so I didn't post it, but it made me happy too - even if they were all in German so I couldn't have read them. They were books!

Heeeee for being a Bad Wimpfen - it's not true! You won the Pros Bingo! *g*