Sunday, May 17, 2015

The Walled City

          Today I woke up and went downstairs to make tea. My Mom was getting fresh croissants for breakfast, my Dad was taking a warm shower, and Tara was still sleeping.  I boiled water and put into the kettle. Next, I added the tea bags and the sugar. When Tara woke up I served it to her. My mom came back just in time so we could have the tea with the croissants, it was a yummy breakfast. After that we got dressed and went to the train station to take six different trains. Three of them we were running with our bags halfway toppling down the stairs. Once we had a break on the train, we would pull out our sandwiches for lunch and start eating. We could'nt miss any of the trains, or we'd have to stay at the train station for a hour. Luckily, we didn't.
           Eventually we arrived at what they called the walled city. Oo ooh, spooky! Ok, not really. Anyway, we went out of our hotel, which was pretty awful. Our hotel is a small squishy room containing three beds. Then we walked around inside the wall looking for dinner. We found  a place for dinner in no time. I had spatzel,  Tara had spatzel with pork, and my dad had spatzel with chicken. ( No need to count my mom because all she had was plain chicken and fries). After dinner we walked around some more and met next to a church for our tour.
           A guy came with a torch, a lantern, and a horn to tell us the history of Rothenburg. It was very intersting. Did you know back then most of Rottenburg's citizens went away in the summer because of the bad smell?  The street was filled with all sort of cattle that certainly did their part. And every morning people would dump ( the suff ) in their chamber pots out the window. They would shout, " Down!" So people in the village would know when to get out of the way. In the summer it got so hot, dry, and smelly. People who could afforded to move into the country, did. It was nine by the time we were done, so went back to the hotel to get a good nights sleep. 
 

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