Rothenburg obT

No umlaut, but always "ob den Tauber." We have been to RobT before, several times. I have always figured it was Germany's answer to Italy's San Jimmy-Johnny (we had been living in Dallas, too long, when we first went to San Gemignano) in Tuscany. We had business in RobT this time, however, with Kathe Wohlfahrt, and so spent an actually pleasant day both within and without the famous city walls. It was but a short drive from Nuremburg in the pleasant Bavarian countryside.

On the main square

Rathaus, with the usual clockwork
foolishness

Seriously impressive half-timbered old buildings throughout

Plönlein with Kobolzeller Steige and Spitalgasse 

The tour buses were massing for attack at this point, so we
decided to walk some of the walls 

Both inside and outside the town

Looking back toward town

Passing through a nicely ornamented vineyard

A beautiful park and gardens

More towers

And towers

And towers