Thursday, August 14, 2008

Staffelberg

Ausflug #2 to Staffelberg

Christoph looking up at Staffelberg
View from the top

Ausflug

Took a day to do some family history research and see if I could track down two little boys whose farm my Opa worked on 60 years ago. That part of the mission was successful, although I quickly realised the dialect in blink-and-you-miss-it (we nearly did) German villages means they are no place for non-native speakers. Nevertheless, some stories were told, addresses exchanged, and my Opa very pleased to have reconnected with this part of his past.

We opted to stay off the Autobahn and stopped in a couple of idyllic German towns on our way back to Bamberg.




Pottenstein





Sommerrodelbahn

Gößweinstein