This, That and The Other --Try It, You'll Like It!

Here's your tour of interesting oddments
--at least WE thought they were interesting

Medieval town gate with modern buildings appended

No, It's not another "Leaning Tower". Many old European buildings are bigger at the top than at the bottom. Most towns charged taxes based on linear footage AT STREET LEVEL --Clever!


A glass blower











.................And his wares
























At his shop in Wertheim

A 7th generation glass blower, he studied with Dale Chihuly

(click mouse for closeup of his beautiful works)

Mist on the river
(enlarge to see ducks under the fog)

Wild Swans

PIXIS

Purveyors of 1 Euro children's books all over Germany


Even if you can't read them, you still can't resist them!

THE WERTHEIM CASTLE
It became an instant ruin when a "BIG OOPS!" happened in the powder magazine

Fortunately, there's no OSHA here in Germany either, so were were allowed to scramble around all over the place totally unsupervised















All the way up into the tower at the very top













UP
and
UP
and
UP

!!

Talk about the "Nose Bleed Section"!!!!!!

We were way above the rest of the castle, not to mention the town itself.

Pass the Oxygen

That's our boat (blue canopy) way way way down there!

Ahhhh........
The Duke had children.....How nice!