During my second business trip to Germany we visited a factory in Creglingen, a small town in southern Germany. We had one evening free and we went to Rothenburg ob der Tauber to have a short walk. I was really impressed by the town. It was founded around 970 A.D. There're lots of houses in the center, which were built still in XI-XII century. The town itself looks like a real picture from some old fairy tale. It wasn't destroyed during World War II. Everything is cute, local people go around in national costumes, etc.
I was quite surprised to see lots of tourists from Japan there, I didn't know it was such a popular place, as it's quite far away from big cities. On one of the buildings there was even a sign "doitsu kan" in romaji. I felt like it should be in Japanese, but I couldn't believe it, until I saw another sign, saying that it was some Japanese travel agency or something of that sort.
They have a really tasty local baking. It looks like a ball and is decorated with chocolate or icing sugar, which make it look like a snow ball.
We also had an oportunity to visit local brewery and to taste local beer. They explained us, how beer should be prepared. In that small plant they produce beer according to the recipes, that appeared some 600 years before, without any preservatives. And it tasted really good.
Below are some pics from that beautiful town.
