Taking advantage of a small hole in the final stages of development of the research project, I write this post (very late) on my vacation in August. My wife and I decided to take a walk through the Black Forest Area, using the occasion to make a visit to a couple of German friends. The entire trip included a circuit through the Black Forest, from northeast to southwest (starting and ending in Freiburg Stuttgart), and a trip express to Cologne and Aachen (Aachen).
The route through the Black Forest (Schwarzwald die in German) was a Fly & Drive, where shopping all pack, which includes air travel, stays in hotels and a rental car. Have a sheet with the hotel management where you have to sleep that day, and you managed to get in the car. This way you have total freedom to move wherever you want. Whenever you arrive at the hotel before nine o'clock at night, of course, because if you arrive late and do not give you dinner anywhere. In cities, more or less you can have lunch or dinner when you want, but in rural Germany, if not walk in the door of the premises at 20:50, or you get some snacks, or you get to go to dinner beer pub (which is not such a bad option, either: D). For beer, in addition, each town or village has its own, some made there, some more good of the region in general, and all excellent and in generous quantities.
One thing that struck us is that very few tourists. In fact, I think almost all the tourists who are Hispanic or English, and German retirees. Talking about this with a native, told us that the German youth is not a lot of tourism within their country, but to go all out.
The trip was very good, on two fronts: the rural (villages of the Black Forest, as Sasbachwalden, Oberwolfach, Gernsbach, lakes and the Titisee, the Mummelsee and Schluchsee) , and the cosmopolitan, especially Fribourg (Freiburg), with its pedestrian area and its impressive gothic cathedral, and Aachen (Aachen), the residence of the Emperor Charlemagne with his octagonal cathedral with Byzantine mosaics, and its unique treasure that includes, among other pieces, the cross of Lothair, covered in gold and silver with precious stones.
If you want to see more photos from Germany and the Black Forest, in my Flickr page is a selection of photos from this trip.
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