Monday, April 2, 2012

Bad Dürkheim: First Impressions



We drove to Bad Dürkheim yesterday and stayed overnight in order to have extra time to get a lot of paperwork done for our move there. Since we had a little extra time to wander around I actually took a few pictures. But only a few.

Bad Dürikheim is a spa town and there's this huge building in it the purpose of which we've been trying to determine since our first visit:



Turns out it's an inhalatorium. The dark sides of it are covered with something that looks like vines or maybe even grapes and water runs through them constantly and I guess you can go inside and just ... inhale? It costs money to go inside and we didn't feel the need to do it on this trip but we'll go after we move there and will hopefully have all of our ailments cured. We don't know the full purpose of this building yet because the sign on the outside was in German and while we're usually pretty good at German we didn't understand most of the words on the sign so we walked away still curious. It's part of the spa so it must be good for you somehow.

Anyway, here are some shots from the little pedestrian area downtown:





We ate dinner at this restaurant last night and the food was pretty good:



The search for our new favorite restaurant will be underway as soon as we move there.

There are also some churches that we will have to explore (spire of a big one in the background of this shot):



So ... more to come after our move!

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