The Black Forest

We had one day to explore the Black Forest. It wasn’t really enough, but we sure packed a lot into the day. We first drove through the area along highway B500 with its beautiful mountain views and picturesque little villages.

We stopped a few times to walk around a lake, to buy some postcards, to walk to a waterfall, and to visit a village. It was really nice to enjoy the nature and I really wished we had more time to take a longer hike through the forest.

We stopped to see “the world’s largest cuckoo clock”. Actually there are a couple of clocks that are proclaiming the title. It was pretty cool to see all the gears of the clock, but 50 times larger than they are in normal clocks!

We spotted people zooming down the side of a mountain on karts on rails. Too much fun to pass up! We had to take two rides down the mountain because it was too much fun to do just once. Very fast! Like our personal mini-roller coaster.

We made our way back to Baden-Baden and went to the town. We wanted to see about going to one of the thermal baths, but we found out that children under 14 years were not permitted to the one we were interested in visiting. We’ll have to save that for a return visit! We did manage to have black forest ham sandwiches and black forest cake though!

We happened to see some cards with beautiful pictures of a rose garden. The shop keeper told us that they were taken at a local rose garden so we took a walk there and strolled through the gardens. I’m sure the roses would have been nicer a month ago, but they were still nice with many, many varieties and colours.

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The girls have been counting down the days until our return to Canada – 10 days until we are home again!