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 […]
Sunday Photo – Cherubs
Cherubs in a shop window. Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber
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 […]
Above Arras
Before you climb that World Heritage Belfry, you must first pass the scrutiny of this strange looking bunch of folk…. The history of these giants goes way back to the 16th century, when apparently most towns in this area (and more than likely beyond!) had their own Giant families that they took to events (like […]
