Today was an adventure all of its own

After a quaint breakfast at the apartment we headed to the local car rental shop, picked up an Audi A6 (they were out of the BMW 5 Series, much to Mark's initial chagrin), and headed out to the country side to see what we could find. Last night Chrissy suggested that we visit Wernigerode or Quedlinburg. We decided to start with Wernigerode and see where it took us from there. Along the way we ran across many wind turbines, which are starting to become more popular back home (Germany is the only country with more turbines than the US). Driving on the Autobahn was a lot of fun. Mark enjoyed seeing how fast he could get the A6 to go, It was topped off somewhere around 210 kph (130mph).

"Our" A6
Weringerode, Germany



Wind Turbines
German Countryside

Our first order of business when we arrived in Wernigerode was to find some lunch, we went to the local grocery store and picked up some lunch meat, fresh bread from the bakery and washed that down with chocolate éclairs. From there it was on to exploring the town. What an adorable little town!!! There is a “fairy tale” like castle (so the tour book says) up on a hill overlooking the valley where the town is. We managed to drive up the hill and then drove back down realizing that we probably weren’t supposed to be there in the first place. To our surprise at the bottom of the hill was an Aldi! We even took pictures – for your enjoyment (Beth)!

Schloss Wernigerode
Wernigerode, Germany



Aldi
Wernigerode, Germany

We found the central part of town and started to wander through it. It was so neat with all the little shops and cute little stores. Down one of the streets we seemed to be following the little UPS van as he made his stops for the day. The town square was bustling with an open air market filled with fresh fruits, veggies and baked goods. It kind of felt like we walked into a Disney movie; I almost expected to see some sort of fairy tale princess come strolling and singing across the square. It was really neat though. After a few hours of exploring the city we decided to head back to Berlin.

Town Square
Wernigerode, Germany

We have an extremely early flight to Italy in the morning, so we are packing up tonight and heading to bed early so we can be up and mobile around 4 am.