My friend had his mothers in laws from Oregon visiting and his wife had to work. So to break up the monotony and add some flavor, he invited me to tag along on one of their trips! :)
We went to Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber, which is about 2.5 hours from where I live in Germany.
Unfortunately, the batteries I thought were good.. were not. Though I did manage to buy replacement batteries, for 10 euro... O_o... it turned out that they were Rechargable and didn't come with charge already. My friends mother in law and sister had way nicer cameras than I did and they took a lot. They even took some with me in there! I'm debating on whether to include the ones with me on the images i'll post when they send me a CD with all of the pictures. :)
I got a brouchure from the place, 1 in english and 2 in japanese. One of my Taiwanese online friends said she likes japanese things.. so maybe i'll mail her one.
Hm..so.. the things I saw. It was mainly a really old walled in town, with lots of Towers and churches inside of it. a LOT of cobble stone roads. hmm, very tourist. Actually I was amazed at how much it catered to japanese tourists there. Which there was a huge bus load, so they were all over the place. Almost every sign was in German, english, spanish and japanese.
I think the 'big thing' for most people there is the Torture Museum, which shows how they used to torture people in the middle ages or whatever. I didn't find that too cool though. It was really gruesome. so, I tried to make light of all of the torture devices... but, not matter how many jokes you make about something.. it still was designed to cause pain..and that's not cool.
lets see if i can post some pictures!!!! i'll post more when I get them (hopefully tomorrow)!.
for some reason photobucket kinda 'clips' the picture off about 3/5ths through(you like that fraction? heck yes! ) . So Click on the pictures to view the full thing!
On the way there, I saw a bunch of air planes.. including the Concorde..which is an awesome plane.. so i took a practice picture out the car window. (i was navigator for the trip..but it was simple, because it was just 2 major autobahn roads. )
]We're HERE!!!!
that's the perimeter wall. i guess you can walk up there, but we were with old people too so we couldn't go up too many stairs. The Torture Museum was torture enough for their old american legs. :D
first building we saw.
There's a random face watching the corner. kinda creepy if you ask me. creepy fits the theme of this town. I kept expecting to be escorted to the 'Art Show'.. like in the crappy movie Hostel.
This is cool, it's a clock tower that's built into the wall. why is it cool? IT JUST IS!!!
Germans love their Sausages!!!
check out this bad ass cobblestone street. It's even more narrow then typical german roads! O_O. if that's possible. They still hang signs like that in villages in germany as well, it's not just for this 'antique' like place. neat huh?
What guy doesn't like Knights and Samurai? I couldn't get a good angle on any of the swords. but here's a shield and some figurines from one of the collectible shops. I guess this walled in village had some problems with Samurai in the midevial times. haha. i kid i kid.
I hope you enjoy my pictures. I know my camera isn't that great. The ladies pictures will be much better. But These are still pretty bad ass. I've been in germany almost 2 years and I haven't really gone anywhere because i'm terrified to be too far from base. :( I got in a very very bad car accident in Luxembourg (the country to the north, it's really tiny. but very nice.) I came out unscratched, but i have a fear of driving over 60mph(i tend to drive 40-50mph..and get made fun of all the time for it...) and I don't driving anymore.
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