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Germany 6-7 days

Posted by (Singapore, Singapore) on

Hi Rick.

I will be in London for a business trip end March and am travelling to Aalen from Frankfurt to meet a relative who lives there. I have been to Germany 7 years ago on my honeymoon and have been aching to go back ever since. I would like to soak in the atmosphere this time and would ideally like to stay at place where there is a nice mountain view and old architecture (ie. cobble stone, historical buildings).

I am thinking of going from Aalen to Dinkelsbuhl and Rothenburg ob der tauber or just going to Calw and then exploring the area around there before I leave to Frankfurt again. What would you suggest as a better option? Are there areas around Aalen and Stuttgart that you could suggest? I will most likely be travelling alone.

Gai

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For really great mountain views, you probably need to go south of Aalen a bit. However, yo can find lot of "old architecture" in that area. Calw has a lot of Fachwerk buildings, but the town is rather small. Other than the Hermann Hesse museum, I'm not sure what else is there. There is an old monastery ruins in Hirsau, just down the valley a few minutes from Calw.

Just south of Stuttgart is the university town of Tübingen, which I found to be quite pleasant. Between Stuttgart and Tübingen is Herrenberg, dominated by the Stiftskirche. There are lots of interesting Fachwerk buildings on it's town square, as well as the remainder of the towns wall on the hill above the church.

From the top of the 600' tall church tower in Ulm, on a clear day, you can see the Alps. Besides Dinkelsbühl, Nördlingen is nice, with a Wehrgang you can actually walk on, a church tower you can climb, and the Ries museum. The rim of an ancient meteor crater (Ries), in which Nördlingen sits, was a training ground for our Apollo astronauts.

If you really want to get into the Alps, go south to the Alpine ski resort of Oberstdorf and up into the Austrian Kleinwalsertal. Füssen and the castles are fairly close by.

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