In Der Schwarzwald

Yesterday we pulled our bags to the Passau train station and travelled to Freising. There we rented a car and drove to the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) area of Germany. We are stayed just outside of a medieval town called Gengenbach in an apartment on a tourist farm -- Haus Wussler. Barbara Wussler is the proprietor and she is a very friendly and helpful person. Richard used GPS to find the route here from Freising so, needless to say, we travelled for 5 hours on the German Autobahn roads.....crazy traffic at very high speeds. Richard said people were flying by us when he was at 140! He did very well on these roads. When we got closer to our destination we went by a combination of GPS and Barbara's instructions from her website. Lost?!! Who got lost?! We got turned around several times and it was getting pretty frustrating before we actually found the right direction and the farmhouse which is only about 3km outside of the town up on the side of a winding, narrow road. It is certainly not what you would think of as a "farm" coming from the prairies. We arrived in the dark and this morning it is fogged in with rain so we haven't been able to see a lot of the area yet. What we can see is that it is a densely treed area with lots of hills and it is very green and lush ...... and the houses with the typical flowered balconies are kind of Hansel and Gretel stuff! We don't mind the rain today. We have been travelling for over 4 weeks and are in dire need of some clean clothing -- it can be a laundry day! Just a few more days before we head home. We hope to see a few more amazing sights before that happens. Tchuss!