Rothenburg

5 July - Well, we had to do it. We hit the great tourist trap of Rothenburg. It is right by where Jamie is attending Girl Scout Horse Camp so we had a few hours and stopped by for a quick tour and lunch. For lunch, we had pork medallions and spatzle, pork knuckle and kraut and very good chocolate cake. Rothenburg is a very nice old walled city. There was a group of at least 100 American HS students from Arizona playing a concert in the main town square. There are ALOT of tourist shops and the town is very quaint. Kim and Jamie in the famous photo-op tunnel gate. Kim and Jamie in the town square. We toured the Criminal Museum in town. It is a museum that chronicals the history of Law and punishment in the middle ages. Really fascinating and would be better if I spoke better German. they have copies or originals of laws and how the law process progressed thru time. Really interesting. They also have various devices for punishment from shame to execution and items and devices for torture to extract confessions. www.kriminalmuseum.rothenburg.de/englisch/page1.html Stretching torture Table for extracting confessions or for fathers of girls to have "friendly chats" with boys!!!! After we toured, we took Jamie to her camp in Ansbach for the week. She will have a great time doing GS stuff and horseback riding. Those photos later!!