The group tour is over, and we are now on our own. We rode with the group to the Frankfurt airport to pick up our rental car.
We left the airport and Frankfurt and headed to Underaichen, Leinfelden, and Musberg. This is a group of villages south of Stuttgart where some of Karen’s ancestors on the Bissinger side of the family came from. The family has been traced back to 1500’s. There were few a signs of family names, a business and a couple of graves in a church yard from the 19th and 20th centuries. It was interesting to see the area where they had come from. We visited a Lutheran Church in Musberg that was built in 1682. Since several generations of Karen’s ancestors were married in Musberg, it might well have been in this church. We also had lunch at Schwabengarten, a beer garden that has been in Leinfelden since the mid 1800's.
The next stop was Ulm, where we stayed over night. Dick had hoped to get to the city in time to climb the tallest cathedral tower in Europe, but we were a bit too late. And even with directions and a GPS, we had trouble finding the hotel. We walked in the city center and found an interesting mix of Gothic and medieval buildings (the cathedral and houses) and modern stores and shopping areas, all together. As we walked around the old city section before dinner, it rained. While we ate dinner in an Italian restaurant, the sun came out. So Dick went back to the Dom Square to take pictures of the cathedral in the sun.
Tomorrow it’s on to Vienna.
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