We left the site, and drove to the city of Baden Baden. This is a historic spa town and one of the main tourist locations in the Black Forest. We had a bit of trouble finding anywhere to park in the centre, but luckily found a free parking spot that was only a short walk away.
We walked into the city and had a wander round a bit.
We washed our faces in the hot spring water for rejuvenation!
We got down to Lichtentaler Allee, a long green park that follows the river Oos, and we walked along it till we'd almost left town.
We decided to circle round and walk to the bottom of the funicular that goes up Baden Baden's "mountain", Merkur. We took it up to the top, it's very steep
At the top we sat at the café and had some cake to keep us going till lunchtime. We then walked to the viewing tower and the peak of the mountain, then set off down again.
This turned out to be steeper and longer than we had anticipated, by the time we got back down to the city we were very hungry. We had fish and chips at an outside café.
We then walked round more of the sights in the city.
We headed back to the van and commenced our journey north towards our ferry in a few days time.
We planned to stay in a basic stellplatz on the Rhine in the town of Worms. However when we found it, it was right next to a park where there was a rock concert. Needless to say, the stellplatz was completely full, the first time in the whole trip we haven't been able to stay where we wanted.
We identified another one about 20 minutes further on, and headed there. It turned out to be located on a winery, Schauf Wines. On booking in, the son of the owner asked if we wanted a wine tasting. We did, of course, and over the next hour or so tried as much as we wanted of nine white, rose and red wines. They were all pretty good.
Once we'd had enough, we made a barbecue of chicken, courgette and tomato for dinner.
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