You can say what you want about the Deutsche Bahn, but I like to make use of it. Either summer- or Lidl-special-offer-ticket, I saved a lot and got to all the far out corners of Germany in pleasant style.
As this time, to Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Trier, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin you know already, but this little settlement is not as well known. At least not for people who don’t browse the internet for the cutest cities in Germany.
International tourism is fully present in the remarkable old city and was, if not about anything else, only bearable because of the cold season.
I gave myself one day’s time and tried to capture the (Christmas-) wonder of the city.
At noon I walked though the gates of the city.
A remarkable specimen.
Looking at this, I got the meaning of a city wall back then.
This one shows you very exactly where you stand in the space-time continuum.
The ‘Plönlein’ is the most famous places to be photographed.
It went dark quickly, which I welcomed. A medieval city in full Christmas decoration, what more could a photographers heart wish for? 😀
Little children ask their mother, clueless: ‘What is he doing?’ and their mother has to explain to them that I am taking photos. Other voices you hear mumbling: Now he’s going at it. Oh, using a tripod!
Do a tripod and a bridge camera look fear-inducing in times of the ever-present photo smartphone??
Apparently they do. 😀
I can recommend visiting this fine city. It is that small that I have dashed from one end to the other several times. On the way(s) I of course took some rests to have some rustic meals and some cups of coffee. I will return here, that is for sure!
