Saturday, 9 June 2012

Visiting the Picturesque Town of Rothenburg


Friday 8/6, a late wake-up today but an early lunch and in-between an entertaining talk and demonstration by a glass-blower from Wertheim. Karl Ittig is a sixth generation glass-blower and is not only extremely talented at his craft but also an interesting and very entertaining presenter. After lunch, we boarded coaches and headed for the old town of Rothenburg. Here we had an interesting and informative tour of the old town followed by an equally interesting free-time walk around. We came across about 20 vintage European cars, and surprisingly only 3 of them were left-hand drive. All the others including Benz and Renault were right-hand drive. On the way back to the ship we came by Autobahn, an interesting drive; trucks limited to 80km/hr, buses limited to 100km/hr and cars travelling at unlimited speed, most in the 130 to 180km/hr bracket but the occasional car in the 200 to 250km/hr bracket and all on a 2-lane dual carriage-way. After dinner this evening, we were entertained by the executive chef and the hotel services manager cooking “Seafood Paella”.

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