In August of 2007, Lisa and I took our first trip to Germany. We spent a week in Bayern/Franconia with day trips to Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Ansbach, Rothenbug ob der Tauber, Herrsching am Ammersee and several other towns. Naturally we took a few pictures… first was a little stop in NYC between planes. We visited Battery Park, Planet Hollywood and a few other spots before we had to be back to Newark for the flight to Frankfurt.
We got into Frankfurt, picked up a rental car (Audi A4 turbo Diesel wagon) and drove the 3 or 4 hours to Hagenhofen. We watched a soccer practice, and did a little touring!
We were overwhelmed by the hospitality of Georg and Brigitte Hegendoerfer, as well as everyone we met in Hagenhofen and Markt Erlbach. I wish we had gotten more pictures from teh first day — we arrived in time for a festival of some sort in Markt Erlbach. Within half an hour of arriving in Hagenhofen we were following the tail end of a parade, then had a wonderful meal and some beer in the beer garden. There was a pretty good sized polka band playing, and we met a lot of very friendly people who were more than happy to try out their (generally pretty good to excellent) English on the visiting Americans! Markt Erlbach is not a major town nor really close to any of the American military installations, so I suspect they don’t get a lot of American visitors. We were spotted as tourists pretty quickly. 🙂
Over the next week we did a lot of visiting and sightseeing. I’m not even going to try to sort out the pictures right now, I’ll try to do that later on. But, I think the first batch is from Ansbach.
