Yet another Rothenburg post. Yes, I have been to other places in the meantime, but I kind of get a little OCD if I don’t publish every last post I have come up with on a subject, so please bear with… There’s just one more after this (at some point!), honest! Hopefully, by […]
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The Kriminal Museum (Rothenburg Ob der Tauber)
The Child-Catcher’s? From the nostalgic “awwwws” of the Christmas Museum, to the aarghhs of the Kriminal Museum of Rothenburg up next! Talk about from one extreme to the other! This Museum was (unsurprisingly) the attraction of choice of the Small People – both of whom I do believe could have spent all day […]
Christmas in May (Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber)
Tell most people here that you’ve been to Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber, and one of the first things they will say is “Oh the Christmas Market is amazing there” – and by all accounts it is supposed to be one of the best… Undoubtedly the stalls are full of the usual bewitching and waist line expanding […]
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Southern Germany’s Romantic Road (although I fail to see what’s romantic about it when you are travelling with children!) stretches 261 miles from Fussen to Wurzburg (or vice versa depending on which way you go!), and includes some famous beauties such as Neuschwanstein along the way (when I last saw that it was covered in scaffolding and not looking […]
Playmobil Land
From the giant people in my previous post, to teeny tiny people in this! Not many people know that Playmobil is Bavarian, its creator Hans Beck came up with the idea 40 years ago, after an oil shortage made smaller toys more economic. The little plastic figures that featured so highly in many of […]