The photos of Germany I promised . . .

In Nordlingen the street lamps had been decorated
with knitting and croquet.

We walked the entire circumference of the wall
in Nordlingen - it took us nearly 2 hours.

The rooftops of Nordlingen from the wall.

The girls loved exploring Rothenburg ob de Tauber -
known as the Christmas town all year long.

Just a few of the beautiful cuckoo clocks we came across.
We had intended to buy ourselves one but there were
just too many to choose from (and we liked the really expensive ones!)

A typical street in Rothenburg ob Tauber.

The girls walking through RobT.

The actual tower that inspired the fairytale Rupunzel.
While we were there a medieval festival was taking place.

Some of the knights in Neustadt's Medieval festival.

The statue of The Pied Piper in Hameln.

The rat bridge that spans the river where The Pied Piper
supposedly drowned the rats of Hameln.

One of our bike rides to Fussen with the Bavarian Alps in the foreground.

One of the streets in old town Fussen.

The river Lech.  It doesn't show up in the photo but its waters
are a bright cloudy aqua colour flowing straight out of the Alps.

We started to see a few fields of sunflowers as we drove through Germany.

Germany's environmental conscience so impressed us.
Whole towns were covered in solar panels.
Huge fields were planted with solar panel farms.
At each campsite you had to recycle everything and seperate all your waste.

Just one of the many solar panel fields we came across.
And not only in Germany - we saw some in the Czech Republic also.

One of our campsites along the Romantic Road.

Couldn't resist taking this photo for all the Aussies out there.