Thank you for taking a deep breath with me - I've stared at this too long.
Seven nights.
Western Germany, coming from Strasbourg. Doing some genealogy in the Heidelberg area, so figured two days in Heidelberg area, using the trains to get to some of the smaller towns (Ittlingen, Gemmingen, Stebbach).
Two days - blank!
Two days - Rothenburg by request.
Last day - train to Frankfurt, explore, then early flight out the next day.
The two blank days are throwing me. Should we add another day in Heidelberg? Try something along Castle Road? We haven't done other towns on the Romantic Road, and we do like small towns. Architecture, history, stained glass windows, pinball, odd things (biggest ketchup bottle? that's us). Not vineyard/winery but do like good food. We may try for 'best pretzel on the trip.'
Thank you for your ideas.
Lots of people here know Germany better than I do, but look at the Fachwerkstraße sub-head here for some towns and sights;
Thank you both!
I checked the pinball place - open the first Saturday of the month and looks like fun.
I am off to do more research on the Castle Road!
Thank you.