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Published: September 11th 2018
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After yesterday's long day of traveling and sightseeing, we decided to take it easy today. After breakfast, we strolled down the main streets, Pflegstrasse and Riechstrasse looking for the tourist office we'd noticed last night. Along the way we passed the famous Kathe Kruse Puppen-Museum (Doll Museum) that we knew we wanted to visit, but figured we'd wait until after we visited the Tourist Information Office. This office, as usual, was in the Rathaus or City Hall. We found a decent map and flyer, then started following the numbers of interesting sights from there. The walking tour map started on Insel Ried or Isle of Ried, which we'd checked out last night. We passed through the Rieder Tor (Rieder Tower) and then walked around the tiny island, looking for anything interesting. It is a pretty island, but the only sight to see was the Fischerbrunnen or fountain, a small but interesting fountain/statue of two guys carrying a bag of something... maybe fish?
We crossed back and started looking for the Deutschordenhaus or House of Knights of the Teutonic Order, but never were sure we found it. From the bridge to the island you can see a tower about where it
should be, but found no signs or entrance near there. From there, we passed back by the Rathaus and out the Ochsentorl tower to the promenade. Where we found the promenade, we also found another fountain called the Zaubergeigenbrunnen. We strolled up the promenade, just outside the remains of the city wall, taking in some very pleasant scenery of gardens and people enjoying a stroll. About where I saw on the map was supposed to be the Kathe Kruse Doll Museum, we found a fairly long tunnel, the Eisenbahntunnel. Apparently, back when, like late 1800s or early 1900s there used to be a train that passed through it, but now its just a pleasant stroll, and I imagine a welcome relief from the heat of summer since it was quite cool.
On the other side of the tunnel we had to find the right road or path to climb back up to the main street and the doll museum. The Kathe Kruse Puppen-Museum (Doll Museum) is very famous in Germany and I think the world. Kathe Kruse started making handmade dolls around 1912, and the town of Donauworth was so pleased to have her factory move here that they
created the building for and manage the doll museum. On display are more than 150 dolls, along with the tools to make them, and other doll related displays. It was very informative and only cost 2 Euros each, maybe with a senior discount . I think the dolls are still being made by hand, and to give you some idea, the ones in the gift shop for purchase run from 200 to 500 Euros each!
By the time we left the doll museum, it was getting to be time for lunch, around 2pm or so. We had planned on having a light lunch from the Edeka market, but found a place calle Luna Rossa with a sign offering currywurst with fries (pommes) for only 4 Euros, so we stopped there and ordered one for each of us. The wurst was very tasty and the fries were okay. I had also ordered a coffee to go with it, but the guy forgot about it. After lunch, we strolled back up to the hostel to rest. Around 6pm, we decided to walk down to the other supermarket in town, Norma. Attached to Norma's was a decent looking bakery/cafe, so we sat
there to each have a coffee before shopping for dinner. We ended up buying a package of interesting looking meat and another of cheese, with a chilled cappuccino to drink and a delicious looking pudding for dessert. Add in bag of Flip peanut based puffs, and two bags of Haribo candies, and you got a grand total 5.21 Euros! We strolled back uphill to the hostel where I ate dinner and am writing this blog entry.
Tomorrow we plan on doing a day of sightseeing in nearby towns, probably Harburg and Nordlingen.
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Joys of Germany
A beautiful country.