Hope Hertz Doesn't Read This! (Germany's Romantic Road)

The Plan: Rent a car, and drive from Krakow, Poland to Bamberg, Germany spending five days making our way up the Romantic Road. It was a good plan. In theory it should have worked.

The Execution: After discovering that there would be a SUBSTANTIAL fee for renting a car in Poland and dropping it off in Germany, Bob came up with the next most logical plan. He'd take a bus to the airport in Krakow, fly to Cologne, sit in the airport for four hours, fly back across Germany to Dresden, rent the car there, drive five Sshhhh. That's her behind me.hours back to Poland, get a good night's sleep and hit the road the next day. Sure!

So on a beautiful, sunny Thursday in the last week of August we packed the car to the brim, and headed out of Krakow (stopping oh so briefly on our way out of town to snap a pic at our favorite curmudgeony meat counter and then get chased out of the store by the security guard). Farewell Poland -- Hello Romantic Road!

An hour out of Krakow, Owen threw up in

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More Flickr Pix Galore

We just posted quite a few new fun-filled and action-packed photos on Flickr. This is just one (obviously)... Click HERE to see more!Jeero the Ugly Doll on the wall of Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Emeril Made Us Do It.

We're in Poland now, but in three weeks we go to Bamberg, Germany. I've never been to Bamberg, and don't know anything about it, other than this: in 1628 they tried a guy for witchcraft. Why do I know this?

The reason we picked Bamberg, if you MUST know, is that Bob heard me say the name among a list of cities in Germany and went on a big Emeril Lagasse roll, going on and on about BAMberg BAMberg. So I found a place to rent there, just to make him laugh.

If YOU know anything about Bamberg, or if you know anyone who does, tell us all about it. Soon please. That witchcraft tidbit only goes so far...