Tuesday 20th September-Lindau- Bodensee

BODENSEE AT LINDAU

Following a good nights sleep and breakfast in the Ibis Hotel we drove the short distance to visit the town of Lindau which is on what we call Lake Constance but known elsewhere as Lake Bodensee.  This is a very quaint and old town right by the Lake with many expensive shops and also others selling the usual tourist rubbish. We wandered around the place for a couple of hours taking photographs and stopped for a cup of coffee before leaving as we have to drive about four hours to our next stop.
We decided as we had time to drive through the countryside and what struck us immediately is that nobody uses the roads as a rubbish dump which was prevalent in Italy and of course UK.

TIME FOR A CIGARETTE

We were heading for a town called Rottenburg ob der Tauber which is a great tourist destination. We arrived on the outskirts of the town and turned the Sat/Nav it it took us through one of the main old gates and down through very small roads, and into large squares and finally it said your 'destination is on the left' well it was nearly there . We found the Hotel and the manager helped us with parking and to our room and we were surprised to see a four poster bed with a mirror on the underside.
We went downstairs and sat in the garden and had a glass of beer and then decided to eat on site and we had a very dinner indeed. We then had a short walk around town and although we took a few photos they may be to dark.
What was funny though, a group of American tourists were being shown around town by a guide who was doing his best to explain how building, which you could hardly see in the dark, and people lived in this town which has a rather violent past.
And so to bed.