Baden Baden

Time to catch up a bit from when we went missing in Germany.

After leaving Augsburg after lunch we intended to head to Strasbourg which is actually over the Rhine river in France. But the navigator for Germany (me) decided that we should instead stay on the Geram side of the river and head for Baden Baden, an old Roman thermal spa town.

This is one seriously cool place and it was a perfect place for us to practise our driving on cobbled lanes less than 2 metres wide.

This is our Hotel.

The only issue about our hotel was that we were right next door to the church which we had been warned were likely to ring their bells pretty often.

They rang continuously for 15 minutes at 6.45pm (just after we checked in and we wondered if we would get any sleep.

Then they didn't ring again until 7am, then they didn't stop until 7.30am.

No-one sleeps past 7am in Baden Baden!

The Romans came here to recuperate after a tough battle and we needed to do the same after Munich. Basically no-one spoke English or was interested in rugby, so we just bunkered down and took in all the history and healing qualities of the "slightly radioactive" spa water which has pools today which are actually on the old Roman ruins.

Think Hamner, only 2000 years older!

I can confirm one thing, the Germans love their nudity. The public area downstairs was normally only half full while the "Roman gardens" area where everyone, and I mean everyone" gets their kit off was packed.

Unfortunately I couldn't take the camera in there so you will have to imagine me wandering around naked......