For the life of me I just can’t understand why most of my blogs end up with some sort of toilet story…and this one is no exception. Fair warning if you want to skip it!
Yesterday we spent a couple of hours at the Ecomusée of Alsace, and while it was very nicely done, we both realized that we are tired of the open air museums and so crossed off our plans to also see the Black Forest Open Air Museum. Instead we just picked some reportedly pretty small towns to explore around the Black Forest.
It was while we were driving that we both realized the need for a pit stop. That’s when we discovered an ice cream store with the sign “no toilets” prominently displayed and when we learned that none of the gas stations had public toilets, not even nasty, dirty ones. Where’s a McDonald’s when you need one? Not in the mountains of the Black Forest.
We were both getting worried as we left the 3rd or 4th gas station with no luck and accidentally took a wrong turn onto a narrow backroad. I looked at the GPS map and spotted a bridge that would eventually put us back on the correct road, but still a very long way to the next village with no guarantee that our personal problems would end there.
That’s when I spotted on the map, not a quarter of a mile down this narrow backroad, the Black Forest Open Air Museum! When we got there, we whipped into a staff reserved parking spot, and as we headed for the entrance, Brian said that even if the facilities were inside and we had to pay the admission, we would gladly fork it over. And that’s how we spent 26€ (instead of the usual 2€) for some needed relief.
No such problems today as we drove from Germany almost all the way through Switzerland. Before leaving Germany we saw what’s advertised as the world’s biggest cuckoo clock and here are pictures of the outside and the inner workings. It was super cool. The other pictures are crossing over the Gotthard Pass in Switzerland. It is 6909 ft high, and the top was in the clouds.
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