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Baden-Baden

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    • Day 34

      B A D E N . B A D E N

      June 13, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

      Après mes déboires d'hier soir, je me réveille de troooop bonne humeur car aujourd'hui je retrouve mon petit chat Morad !
      Les rayons du soleil au petit matin mettent une belle ambiance dans la chambre, je me motive à prendre le petit dej sur la terrasse avec une jolie vue sur un petit bout de forêt noire ~
      Mon hôte me dépose gentiment à la gare de Sankt Goergen d'où je prend le train pour Baden Baden
      Je chope un caddie abandonné car mes épaules et mon dos de sont pas encore remis des 8-9km dans la forêt noire en fin de journée KO complet !
      J'avoue ça m'a mis bien, j'en ai profité pour faire des petites courses ~
      Arrivé à l'appart une belle surprise m'attend ; la douche de l'appartement qu'on avait résa est cassée donc la propriétaire nous filé un autre appartement au moins 3x plus grand ! Y avait même un couloir ! UN COULOIR WEY ! On a appelé cet endroit le Palace ~
      Sincèrement même l'appart était plus enjaillant que la ville, donc je me suis fait une petite journée chillax/apéro avant de partir retrouver Morad a la gare vers 21h30

      Le lendemain matin on part avec regret de notre magnifique et somptueux Palace, et on se met en route pour Berliiiiin ~
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    • Day 18

      18. Luxembourg - Baden Baden

      February 22 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

      We woke up to quite possibly our rainiest day yet and that means it's really rainy with the weather we have had so far.. 😂☔

      We decided to head to Luxembourg city to take a look but unfortunately all the parking was a nightmare... After 3 drives around the city attempting to park and then going down a road definitely not designed for a van, we decided to move on as we weren't desperate enough to go to a park and ride into the city. It was still very pretty even in the rain.

      We then decided to slowly meander down to Baden-Baden, which is the start of Germany's Black Forest.
      This route (half motorways) took us through France and Germany on the way down. We arrived just as the sun set in the distance and made camp at a local park up. The next few days we are slowly driving down towards Switzerland, 40 miles of the route is supposedly one of the best roads in Europe to drive so we are looking forward to the adventures to come.

      We took Maddy on a walk through the woods with many signs about the aggressive Wildschwein, (wild boar) They would be with us as we have a got a German frankfurter sausage risotto for tea. We have no instructions on how you cook the sausages and no signal so we are going to attempt to boil them... If no penguins uploaded tomorrow we have both died peacefully of food poisoning or attacked brutally by a wildschwein 😂😂
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    • Day 3

      Baden Baden

      September 5, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

      For the second day of our honeymoon we drove from Fontainebleau just over the border into Germany, to the German spa town of Baden-Baden. Here theremal spring water at 60-odd degrees has meant that there's been some settlement or other here for many centuries. It's good money that there were Roman baths here. It's the sort of thing they'd do. The main star of this town is the Friedrichsbad spa, a so-called "Roman-Irish Bath." It turns out that one Dr. Richard Barter from 1800's Co. Cork pioneered a Roman-inspired bath house concept of dry air and cool pools and, crucially: nudity; for general health and wellness, which caught on in a big way in Germany and Switzerland. The more we didn't know. Friedrichsbad is one such famous example. Friedrichsbad has a strict 17-stage process of showers, cold pools and increasingly warm saunas, all in a beautiful ornate building that opened in 1877.

      Our plans for today largely revolved around visiting this spa. Having found a nice spot to park a ten minute cycle from the town, we headed in to Baden-Baden proper and had our first ice creams of the trip. This was followed by some good mooching and a beer in a beautiful-if-over priced beer garden in the old town. Suitably emboldened, we entered the spa where we were assigned lockers and a towel and told to remove our clothes. The Germans have a refreshing outlook on nudity: it's just a naked body. We all have one. Get over yourselves. Wandering around an array of showers, saunas and splendid ornate swimming pools surrounded by naked people young and old has never seemed so normal or refreshing. Suitably relaxed and calmed, we finished our evening with a pizza and then a few beers on one of the plazas before heading home on our bicycles along the wonderful cycle paths back to the van.
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    • Day 17

      Baden-Baden

      May 19, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

      This spa town in southwestern Germany’s Black Forest, near the border with France, was on our list by a recommendation of a good friend.

      With a population of some 57,000 residents it is quite small and compact.

      It felt like a town we would gladly live in ☺️

      The main attraction of Baden-Baden is, of course, The Merkur Funicular Railway (Europe’s steepest, and most technically advanced, funicular railway).

      The ride is already an experience, but looking down from the tip of the near-700m-high Merkur mountain is truly breathtaking!
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    • Day 13

      Wasserkunstanlage Paradies&Baden castle

      April 8, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F

      Walked around more Baden Baden gardens that would have been even more beautiful if the water had been cascading down the tiered fountains. Then drove up to the Hohenbaden castle ruins. Great views throughout!Read more

    • Day 44

      Baden Baden

      October 4, 2022 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 61 °F

      What a difference a day makes. We arrived in pouring rain to our apartment across the street from the spas. There wasn't anything to do EXCEPT go to a spa on a day like this. But the lines were over an hour long at 4:00 on a Sunday, so we decided to chill a bit and try later. We went back at 5, and the lines were now an hour and a half long and the negative reviews on Google Maps and Facebook were rolling in. Uh Oh. But we did arrive on the night before German Unity Day, a national holiday. And it was raining all day. I checked in at 6 and the lines were still too long at Caracalla spa, the new one. The reviews for the traditional spa, Friedrichsbad, were so horrible we decided against going there. They jacked up the price and took away the included brush and soap massage that has been standard for decades "because of Covid." But they didn't mind putting people in small saunas and steam rooms while charging 20 percent more.

      So, we had dinner and drank some wine and decided to go early the next morning. And what a difference a day makes. The Caracalla spa opens at 8 and we made it in by 8:15. Hardly anyone was there until 11, and even then it didn't get too crowded. We paid extra to get into the sauna area, which like most spas in Germany is a clothes verboten area. No biggie. We're veterans now. We spent 7 hours there and moved between pools and saunas of varying temperatures and even cooled off outside naked as the sun came out. Lunch at the cafe in our suits was pretty reasonable and delicious. I had trout in a brown butter lemon sauce for the same price or cheaper as in town.

      Next to, and behind the spa is a grade school on a hill. From their upper floors, they can see into the spa area. But given the average age here, why would they? I looked out and could see them playing ping pong, totally oblivious to us naked old people.

      Since the sun was out for the first time in a week, we enjoyed a long stroll through town afterwards. And yes, we had our clothes on. Lots of rich people have vacationed here and many built mansions in the late 1800's. The heyday here was probably 1880. At that time, there were twice as many hotel rooms in town, and right now, there are a LOT. There are lots of Russians and Cyrillic signage also. Many Russians have settled here since a Russian Czar married a woman from Baden Baden 120 or so years ago. And so lots of businesses are now run by Russians, including the owner of our apartment. It doesn't hurt that this is the warmest spot in Germany.

      Next door to our apartment is the Fabrege Egg museum. These exquisitely crafted jewels are pretty amazing to look at, but we opted out when we saw the price of the museum was about $27. Most museums in Germany are in the $10 range. We both ran for the door as I yelled "Last one out is a Russian egg!" Many people wonder how we can afford to travel so much. The big secret is to not pay for any bullshit.

      So we strolled some more past the casino for the rich and famous and admired the gardens on the Lichtentaller Allee, and drank some mineral water from the source at the Trinkhalle, a fresco lined arcade.

      Today, we went back to the same spa for the morning only and there were even fewer people. What a great feeling to go from a super hot wood-fired sauna to the 'ole bucket of cold water on the head. They have one rigged up that auto fills with water and has a handle on the side to tip it. Then it's off to the cold pool and the next thing you know, you're blissed out.

      And we finally took part in one of the Aufguss ceremonies. There are signs posted in spas with starting times for certain saunas that will have particular aroma ceremonies. It's a bit of a deal. The Aufguss master opens the doors to a sauna 15 or so minutes early to cool it off and then at the exact hour, he closes the doors and adds the water scented with the aformentioned oil to the sauna in a great display. Then he waves a huge fan around the room and in front of each person a few times to reallly stir up the new heat. It's exhilarating. I started counting bodies when we were doing this. It was me, Deanne, and 10 old dudes! They must have loved it. At the end, everyone claps and jumps in cold water.

      It got even warmer outside today, so we walked through a residential area to a small mountain/ large hill just outside of town. We walked to the funicular and paid our 6 Euros each for the round trip ticket that saved us a few hours of hiking. After getting off, we went up to the top of an observation tower and had amazing views. To the west was a flat plain, the Rhine River valley and beyond it, France. To the south was the start of the fabled Black Forest, a protected hilly area covered in trees. That's a rarity in Europe. North Woods Wisconsinites would say "meh" but from this vantage point, it's pretty impressive.

      Tomorrow, we head south to Freiburg, one of Madison's sister cities.

      More photos and videos are here.
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    • Day 4

      Baden-Baden

      August 11, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

      Riprendiamo l'auto per dirigerci verso Baden-Baden, città termale dichiarata patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO nel 2021.
      Trascorriamo lì l'intero pomeriggio passeggiando per le caratteristiche vie di questa nota meta turistica.

      Verso le 21:00 ritorniamo in hotel a Karlsruhe e ceniamo in un ottimo ristorante greco, il Restaurant Sokrates, situato proprio sotto l'hotel.
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    • Day 12

      Walking Baden Baden

      April 7, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F

      We walked around Baden Baden this afternoon, an old Roman spa town at the northern part of the Black Forest in Germany. Beautiful central corridor had gardens and historic buildings everywhere. We ended the night by enjoying a classic Roman spa including pools and saunas inside and outside in a forest setting. Very relaxing.Read more

    • Day 5

      06/07/22

      July 6, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      Freakishly realistic 'tuna' sandwich (and dragonfruit fanta!)

    • Day 5

      Schleuse Iffezheim

      August 1, 2021 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

      … mitten beim „Schleusen schauen“ sehen wir westwärts dunkle Gewitterwolken auf uns zukommem - nichts wie weg - einen Unterstand suchen …

      Technische Daten der Schleusenanlage:
      - Inbetriebnahme der Schleuse im Jahre 1977.
      - Zwei Schleusenkammern mit je 24m Breite und 270m Länge.
      - Die südlichen Schleusentore (im Oberwasser) mit einem Gewicht von jeweils 80 Tonnen sind als Senktore konzipiert. Die nördlichen Schleusentore (im Unterwasser) haben jeweils ein Gewicht von je 300 Tonnen und sind als Schiebetore ausgeführt. Die an der Schleuse zu überwindende Höhendifferenz zwischen Ober- und Unterwasser ist vom Rheinwasserstand abhängig. Die maximale Hubhöhe beträgt 12.5m.
      - Die Füllung einer Kammer dauert ca. 10 Minuten, die Entleerung ca. 12 Minuten ohne Berücksichtigung von Ein- und Ausfahrtszeit.
      - Die benötigte Betriebswassermenge beträgt maximal 165m3/s.
      - Für jeden Schleusenvorgang werden ca. 80 Millionen Liter Wasser benötigt.
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