Driving in Germany is interesting - more on that later.
Picked up the hire-car from the airport after a beautiful breakfast at the hotel. Following the directions to the car (an Opel Senator which is a bit like our Passat) was the first big challenge and then had to have the sat-nav changed to English at the workshop. Headed for the north of Stuttgart to visit the Porsche factory and museum. Incredible building in its own right and the displays of every Porshe model plus other inventions of Ferdinand Porsche (including VW) is brilliantly presented. As a good Grandfather, I bought Tommy a Porsche.
Traffic through Stuttgart was terrible - volume is mind-blowing and thank goodness we have the sat-nav as the road system is terribly complex. Headed off for Rothenburg and trip was spent going from one auto-bahn to the next. Mostly 120kph limit but I think I was the slowest car on the roads today in spite of 120kph on cruise control. Most amazing impession was that the right hand lane is a nose-to-tail line of trucks - only a few B-doubles but we've just never seen soo many trucks!
About half way here we struck a huge storm on the auto-bahn - had to pull off in a slip lane with other vehicles for a while. Got here about 3 and after booking in to our hotel which is just beautiful and just 2 mins out of Rothenburg. Rothenburg is almost too typical German village to be true - all just beautiful with georgeous shops - their bear shop is incredible along with craft shops and myriads of bars and restaurants. Middle Ages city wall surrounds it all and we walked around part of it.
Another amazing day. Our hotel (Schwarzes Lamm) has been in the same family since the 1700's and their food tonight was just beautful - Pork for me, trout for Elizabeth and Apple strudel for sweets - apple trudel is nothing like we've ever had before!
Another day on the "romatic road" to look forward to tomorrow!!
Tivia: Ferdinand Porsche invented the first motorised fire engine as well as the first 4-wheel drive system.
Cap Report - still OK which is sad because a new Porsche cap would be cool!
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