Ludwigsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Today we got up and headed off to Ludwigsburg for their Christmas market (the first 8 photos). It said it was a baroque market, but it was just a normal one…but it was nice to wander around. I’m sure at night all the lights are gorgeous! They were a lot of fun!

They also had a holunder lime punsch which came in a giant cup and was delicious! Best holunder one I have had!

They also had lots of food options so we again had to pick and choose - we got a crazy corndog with sweet potatoes on it (delicious!!), another bread in a stick (tomato, olive, bell pepper which was not as good as the other one we had, but still tasty), and some cinnamon sugar fried balls with applesauce - everything was so good and small so we did not have too much food!

After our wander there we headed on to Rothenburg ob der Tauber which I was very excited for. The town is really cute and it was nice at Easter time when we were last there so I thought Christmas would be super magical…but it wasn’t! Like the main square was nice with the market and part of the Main Street was decorated a bit, but the rest of the town was not…and even on the Main Street like not all the shops were decorated or anything. It was disappointing! It is a tiny town and I expected more! Oh well, we still had fun. It was freezing when we got there. Actually below freezing and damp so it felt so cold! They had a pear holunder drink so I got some of that to warm up and it was pretty tasty. Then the only vegan food they had was 2 bratwurst in a bun so we tried that which was not bad. It was a nice wander around the little town until we froze then we headed on.

Our last stop was Nuremberg (the last three photos) where we are staying. When I was looking to see where the markets were it said there was only one on the north side of town, but there weren’t many places to stay up there so I got a place on the south side and we would just walk up (the main downtown is not that big. It’s very walkable). Well we arrived at our place and there is a Christmas market right outside! So we got settled in and went to explore and found Vegan bibimbap which we got for dinner and it was so so so good! We will probably get it again tomorrow it was so good! Raymond was all ready to go to all the markets, but it was cold and I was getting tired and I was like we have all day tomorrow to explore the other ones! So we headed back to our place to relax.

All in all today was a great day! I can’t wait to see what else Nuremberg has in store tomorrow!Read more