7 June 2009

• After breakfast, Marty’s cousin, Hans, picked us up and brought us to a gorgeous castle not too far from Burladingen, Schoss Hohenzolhern.
• Unfortuantely, the tour we took was in German (the English tour was an hour later, and we were hungry and the weather wasn’t cooperating…more on that to come).  So, I spent the majority of the tour glaring at some dude who wouldn’t shut up while our lovely tour guide was explaining the history of the centuries-old building.
• As I mentioned, the weather wasn’t doing us any favors.  Luckily, we got some pics in before the tour, because after the tour, the skies opened up and we got rained on:

• After the castle, we went to Boll for some lunch.  I had some potato pasta with a (heavy) mushroom cream sauce and some salad.  Very rich, but tasty.
• Then, we drove to Hechingen and walked around the quaint little town for a bit before getting some tasty pastries to eat with Hans’ girlfriend, Irmgard.
• She was waiting for us in Gammertingen, where I had some Black Forest cake and coffee.  Luckily for Marty (and me, for that matter!), she spoke English, so the conversational burden could be shared between us.
• Since the weather wasn’t very nice at end of the castle tour, Hans drove us to a lovely viewpoint that overlooked the castle.\
• After parking the car, we had to hustle 1.5 km to the spot due to the uncertain weather conditions.  But, amazingly, the sun came out just as we reached the overlook.  Here’s a selfy of that spot (note the sunshine…yay!):

• We then drove back to Burladingen and waited for Sofie and Gerd to get back from their election day work.
• Sofie perpared a DELICIOUS dinner, and we capped off the meal with a shot of Jaegermeister.  Ah, Germany.