We had planned to visit another town close to Rothenburg, Dinkelsbuhl, but when we got up on Friday we were just too tired. And we loved Rothenburg so much we wanted to explore more of the town. Additionally, we learned that Dinkelsbuhl was holding Germany's 2013 heavy metal concert that weekend and David reminded me that he left his leather and "spiky" things in Belmont to save weight in our luggage, so this pretty much ended our plans for Dinkelsbuhl. We had our usual delicious breakfast and went for a walk. There was a lovely park nearby which we wanted to walk through and it was beautiful. The views were breathtaking. While sitting on a park bench, David kept hearing what he thought was a hot air balloon adding fire to the balloon and he was right! Soon it came into sight and was beautifully floating through the air. What a great sight!!!
We also walked to the other end of Rothenburg and walked down many, many steps (which, of course, means you have to walk back UP many, many steps) to see an old castle that is now a huge hotel! We walked in and the lobby was very beautiful. Of course David had to use the restroom so I had a chance to snoop around. It looked like the kind of hotel which held big conferences and events. Staff was setting up a large buffet in one of the meeting rooms and I could see many people listening to a presentation in another room. It was gorgeous but larger than the hotels we generally choose to stay in.
We again spent some time in the hotel garden -- blogging and just relaxing. The garden is surrounded by rock walls so you have tons of privacy and at least part of the garden is always in the shade so it was fabulous!
The hotel has a fairly fancy restaurant and we did not plan to eat there because the food all looked too snooty for us. But the reviews of the restaurant were so good that we felt like we might be missing out on something so we made a reservation to have dinner there on our last night in Rothenburg.
The weather was so nice that they were only serving dinner in the garden. We had a nice table for our lovely, intimate dinner. The hotel owner, Uhle, runs the restaurant very efficiently with two additional servers. We asked for and took their advice on wine selection and we both LOVED our wines. The restaurant lived up to its reputation, that's for sure!!! The server brought us an amuse bouche (David wanted to give you his definition of what that means but you can all imagine why I'm using my definition instead. It seems to be the latest thing where the chef makes something hoity toity and and barely large enough to see on the plate and you get it for free before the meal) which was a quail leg in some kind of vegetable puree. We both had delicious zucchini cream soup with tomato pesto and basil. David's entree was aubergine (egg plant) in a light egg batter stuffed with aubergine mashed. I had fabulous ossobuco on creamy truffle polenta. It was definitely the fanciest dinner we had on the whole trip and it was out of this world. And, for Steve, I also have to tell you about our dessert. It was called the Grande Finale and it came out on a three level serving tray. It included mousses, custards and ice creams and it was unbelievable!!! I know it sounds like we've been eating like pigs, and we have, but the servings are small!!! David said this was a long way from his sitting in his underwear in the lazy boy recliner eating baked beans out of a pot! Too much of a visual????
After that dinner we were lucky we only had to walk upstairs to go to bed! It was the most perfect ending to our stay in charming Rothenburg!!!
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