Luxembourg City

We left Charlie and Debbie's about 8AM for the long drive to the sea. We took the autobahn to Saarbrucken and then traveled to Ostende via Luxembourg, Arlon, Bastogne, Namur, Brussels. We arrived at a campsite north of Ostende about 7 PM after a wearying 370 mile trip. It took eleven hours of hard driving to make a distance which could have easily been covered in 7 hours in the States - and the driving conditions were much better than the average in Europe since we had over 100 miles of autobahn. June 29, 1967

Dinklsbuhl Town Wall and Moat

After eating lunch in Nordlingen, we continued up the Romantischestrasse to reached another walled town, Dinklsbuhl. It is a more attractive town than Nordlingen with many bare-timbered old buildings. The main street has ornately patterned buildings with lattices of exposed wood. The moats as well as then town wall are preserved. We enjoyed the swans which we found swimming in the moats.

We spent only a short time there and then pushed on. June 26, 1967

Castle on Hill Near Neckarelz, Germany

Near the river there were a lot of vineyards. This was a particularly attractive location with the castle on top of the hill. June 26, 1967

Nordlingen and Its Town Wall

This is a good perspective of Nordlingen with its tile-roofed houses inside its medieval town wall. Unfortunately, this slide has borne the ravages of time an is splotchy, but it is still a unique view of the German town on the Romantischestrasse.

We climbed up and walked the gaurd walk all the way around the town of Nordlingen. The wall is essentially complete. It took us about 45 minutes to walk the circle around the city. The "gaurds walk" was perhaps 15ft high, a 3 ft wide stone walkway with a tile roof. The outside of the wall was probably 25 ft high. Regularly spaced along the wall were narrow slits or "murder holes". June 26, 1967