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Amber's Journal
Day 6: Today we became master pretzel bakers! We got to go to a nearby bakery to learn how to twist pretzels properly, and saw how they’re glazed, dipped with salt and baked. Afterwards we bought some gourmet sausage, and feasted on the fruits of our labors. We walked about Rothenburg and shopped. Mom picked up some Rothenburg buildings for her Christmas villiage, and we saw the utterly overwhelming Christmas store. This is the largest in the world, and utterly the capital of sensory overload! Everything in there twinkles, spins, glitters or burns incense! Mom went to rest up before dinner, so David and I then explored the city walls, and the Crime and Punishment museum. The walls are fully restored after damage in WWII, and look perfect. Twentieth century? Bah! It never happened! The views from the wall are utterly charming as you look over a town that was preserved by poverty, but has blossomed into picture-postcard charm. The Crime and Punishment museum is fascinating, and not as gory as might be expected. Many of the exhibits are concerning “shame” punishments that were meant to keep people in line like belled shame masks, neck violins (for feuding couples to be chained together with), and oversized chains of dice and cards to punish cheating gamblers. |
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