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| big cakes! |
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| in the castle courtyard |
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| the castle |
Scenic routes in
Central Germany and Northern Bavaria
Part 1 Eisenach
We drove across some
fairly uninteresting farmland until we reached the hillier region of the Thuringian
forest. We walked up to Wartburg Castle
at Eisenach which was built between 1155-1180 and is one of Germany's best
preserved Romanesque structures (apparently!)
It certainly had huge slabs of cake in the cafe on the terrace. Malcolm's was marzipan flavoured - they have
a thing for marzipan here!
We didn't go in the
castle because it was by tour only and there wasn't an English one for
hours. So we set off on what was
supposed to be a 'scenic drive' through the Thuringian Forest. We spent 6 hours driving through it but found
the narrow roads through the forest gloomy and where there were towns they were
dreary. Almost all of them had the main
street dug up so we had to wait ages at traffic lights. The houses all had slate on the walls so were
very grey and they had no gardens, their walls went straight into the dug up
streets!
The most scenic
thing was our camping place - a little town on a big lake. We actually went there by mistake as the name
was similar to somewhere else but it turned out to be a good choice.
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