Baden-Baden

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8 May 2009

A day of contrasts.

We spent the morning exploring Baden-Baden, a spa town which caters for the affluent - three different thermal baths, one where you have to be completely naked (we didn’t try this), two theatres a pump room and an opulent casino. We a beautifully maintained riverside walk with many flowering shrubs, sadly we were too early to see the roses in bloom in the huge specialist garden. Wendy could have spent the day window shopping.

We then headed for the hills and as we did so the weather changed, eventually finding ourselves in a thunderstorm at our evening stop, Baiersbronn a resort village.

Our stroll after supper through the quiet streets showed that it was still very much low season.

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