No kidding, there we were...sitting in the hotel room checking the internet every few minutes to see if there was a new rental property posted. Nope...nothing...check again in five minutes.
I began to see the walls of the room close in on me like the trash compactor scene in Star Wars...no new properties...rats.
On a whim I ventured away from the recommended listing service and immediately struck upon what at first glance looked like a real gem. The walls stopped moving.
After a few phone calls back and forth with a friendly American ex-pat who highlights on his web page having served with Elvis Presley, we had an address to go along with the online pictures. Sarah quickly Googled (can that really be a verb?!) the town and within a few short moments we had a ton of information and a destination for a little drive to...
Weil der Stadt!
The town was first mentioned in documents back in 1075 AD, but was completely destroyed during the Thirty Years' War and was subsequently rebuilt in the mid 1600's (Roughly 30 years after the Pilgrims landed) and many of the buildings from that period, to include the city fortifications and the wall that surround the original town still dominate the architecture.
It was a short drive from the hotel out into the rolling countryside. There was a wonderful feeling of liberation as we passed by fields of wheat and corn. After driving by the rental listing - the one that saved us from our hotel room - we headed into the town center.
Parking in the Märktplatz (market place) near the cathedral we set out on a walking tour that at times felt like we were headed into, or maybe out of, the pages of a story book...
The weather was great for Germany...not rainy...and we spent a pleasant few hours walking about the town and looking at the amazing structures and sights. We really enjoyed the time together, and by the time we returned, our room had returned to its' original proportions.
~Andrew~
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