After our VERY long walking tour in Nuremberg yesterday, we decided to hang out in Rothenburg today. David said his feet were shot! Our hotel owners gave us a few suggestions for the day. One was to visit the Doll and Toy Museum or, as David says, the Puppchen und Spielzeug Museum. We wouldn't normally choose to go to this kind of museum but Uhle said it was good so we took her word for it. It was a two-story museum and much larger than we anticipated. We had a catalog-guide and even tho it was difficult, we managed to match up the numbers in the display to the numbers in the catalog. I should say David was able to do that. The display cases were numbered and the individual pieces were numbered and most of the time they matched up with the numbers in the catalog. The museum had the most intricate doll houses and individual doll house room displays down to the smallest pots and pans, food items, pieces of clothing and even the miniature children's toys within the doll houses. Incredible! Most of the toys were from the 1830s up to the 1890s. There was even an intricate train that David paid .5 euros to watch run through the town with traffic jams, construction workers, and police and emergency workers doing their jobs. It was really a great museum.
After the museum, we split up and I went back to the Kathe Wohlfahrt Christmas store to do a little shopping and David went back to the grocery/deli/wine/miniature store to look at toy soldiers. Even tho the last thing on earth I need is anymore Christmas decorations, I couldn't pass up one or two. The made-in-Rothenburg decorations are wonderful. A little later I met up with David while he was soldier shopping and I actuallly picked out a soldier for him. It's a WWII German Officer marching in a band, made by a company headquartered in Rothenberg.
After shopping we went went back to our hotel and spent some time in the garden. I had a Coke Light while blogging and David had a big wheat beer. Very enjoyable!
We didn't have any plans for dinner but I wanted pizza so we asked a hotel employee where we should eat. She suggested a fairly new Italian restaurant near one of the old entrance gates, called Michelangelo's. Our friendly hotel driver, Fritz, was standing nearby and heard our conversation and he offered to drive us there because he was heading to the train station to pick up some other guests. He dropped us off and we walked into the restaurant which had an ultra modern decor (considering Rothenburg is an old medieval village). We were given a great table clear in the back of the restaurant from where we could view the entire restaurant including the bar. Made for some great people watching. David ordered a salad with Spring greens, apples and walnuts in it which he shared with me. We each had big wheat beers which were delicious and excellent pizza. And, of course, we had chocolate sundaes for dessert!!!
We rolled out of there and walked back to our hotel. Got ready for bed and settled in to listen to the Night Watchman's stories. It was a great day and it did us good to rest a bit because we've been walking miles every day!!!
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