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

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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*