Saturday, November 17, 2007

Waterfall in the Black Forest

We were driving through the Black Forest in search of a small town known for its Cuckoo Clocks. Near our destination was a sign pointing to the tallest waterfall in Germany? Sure, why not check it out.
It all looked very makeshift. Scraped parking area, hand painted sign pointing into the forest. It's all about walking into the woods in the Black Forest. So about a half mile along this trail sits a little shack, kiosk, with a woman inside collecting an Euro from us if we intend to go on. (Would she have chased us down had we continued without the toll payment?)
So we stood on the little bridge, looked up then down this section of the falls and went back up the trail to our car.
The falls were a bit of a disappointment, to be truthful, and I had not been in the mood to stumble, again, through a section of some wood. But never fear, we had to do the hiking again another day!
Now on hindsight, I appreciate more fully the calming effect of that little walk. It was cool in the forest on this warm day.
When we came to the little clock town, we drove over the bridge at the foot of the falls. It was perhaps prettier there than it had been on the hill.
So we ate our lunch sitting on a low wall, bought the required clocks and drove to the northern edge of the Black Forest on this day.

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