Black Forest to Wertheim

Our time in the area of Kirchzarten was, as usual, most enjoyable. Initially the weather was cold, and more so9 than we had experienced previously in this area. On Sunday afternoon we visited our friends at Klausenhof for afternoon tea and to inspect the latest family member, Jonas Samuel, who was 7 weeks old and could already speak more German than me!

On Monday we took to the hills for a day of walking, or was it to get warm, I cannot recall, nevertheless, we had a super day walking on a mixture of new and old paths and by use of the free bus pass, we were able to use both bus and train in order to complete our circular tour.

On Tuesday we were visited by Jonas and his mother, Kirsty and I was honoured to road test the new pram around some of the little country lanes. On Wednesday we visited a family member that we had met on Sunday and were most impressed by the views from their home and even more so by their collection of clocks that was truly amazing.

Sadly, on Thursday we departed and made our way to our current location at Wertheim, which is and ancient town at confluence of the rivers Tauber and Maine, the latter being navigable and in constant use by large cruise boats and extremely long and wide barges. The town itself has an old castle set on the hills overlooking the town (see photo).

We are certainly feeling that the epic is slowly drawing to a close as we are now in the centre of Germany and have seen many cars with GB plates. We can even receive all the UK television programmes and as a consequence, now understand the problems caused by lack of water in the NW. We have not encountered such problems!

Tomorrow we depart for a couple of days at Dusseldorf and then to Hoorn near Amsterdam before arriving at Newcastle on 2nd July (1 week today).

Should do one more before we sail.

Love, J and M.