Tübingen – Schloss Lichtenstein
Day 20
We had to get up early this day, as we were going quite a long way. You see, the Rhine and the Danube actually begin in sort of the same area, an area that has some really amazing limestone formations. It was pretty cold that morning, especially while we were waiting on the platform at Sigmaringen to take the final train on to the tiny train stop at Fridingen. (I know there was a heat-wave on in southern Europe, but it most definitely was not anywhere we were; temperatures rarely got over 25 Celcius, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if the temperature that morning was closer to 15-18 where we were.) We glimpsed Sigmaringen Castle on our way by, but it hadn’t quite made our list of “top castles to see” so we didn’t mind that we weren’t seeing more of it. Continue reading