Day 10 - Rothenburg

We woke up in Rothenburg this morning, ate some breakfast, and headed out. The town is quite small and it is surrounded by a stone wall with little towers. We walked through a main entrance and under a clock tower, through the town square, and out to a church with beautiful gardens. The gardens and much of the town overlook hills below, scattered with little cottages. We then walked through the convent gardens and found the Midieval Crime Museum. It was a pretty large building filled with original and replica pieces of torture equipment dating back up to 1000 years. There were a lot of old manuscripts and drawings depicting law enforcement procedures in Europe. It was pretty interesting.

Next we walked more through town. We saw a little biergarten and agreed that we would go back later. We walked across a little bridge to the edge of town and crossed the street. We were near a wooded area and there was a little doorway with steps leading down into the woods, so we walked down. There were stone terraces followed by what seemed to be a large private building. There were a lot of cars parked in front of it and as we walked back up the stairs there was a large group of people in fancy cloths heading down. We then walked back into town and up into a guard wall. We walked all along the inner edge of the wall surrounding the town.

After that we were a bit thirsty, so we found our way back to the biergarten. The restaurant was closed because they were serving a party elsewhere, but the bar in the garden was still open. Jacob asked if they had any Oktoberfest beers available, and the server went in the back to check. She came back with a two liter bottle and said that was all they had. We asked how much it was, to which she replied no more than ten euros. We decided to get it and started drinking. We were the only two people in the garden the whole time, aside from one server. It was pretty nice, even with the wasp dancing and gossamers carrying caterpillars.
When we were done we took some more pictures at the edge of town overlooking the hills and then got some lunch. There was some really good sweet pickled red cabbage, even Jessica liked it.

We then shopped around for some gifts and went back to the hotel to get the tripod for some night time photos. We walked around looking for a place for dinner, but it seemed there were only cafes open. We finally found a place, ate, and headed off back to the first gardens we had gone to. Jacob took some 20 second exposure pictures of the buildings in the hills, then we decided to call it a night. All the lights in town were tungsten, which apparently make for bad pictures of buildings.