travelling with kids

HI

we are travelling the romantic road March 2006 with a 7 and 11 year old by car. How long should we allow and what is there for the kids to see

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Your children should enjoy walking along the town walls in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and perhaps the torture museum there. Noerdlingen has a museum much of which deals with the meteorite impact that created the Ries Basin in which the town sits. They should also enjoy the horse carriage ride up to Neuschwanstein Castle and the tour of it.

Although not on the Romantic Road, Stuttgart has the excellent Mercedes Benz museum enjoyed by all, the excellent Museum am Loewentor with its extensive local fossil collection including dinosaurs and mammoths (Stuttgart is a prime collecting locality, and the Holzmaden fossil museum just to the east is equally impressive and has life-size dinosaur models outside), Wilhelma combined zoo-botanical gardens is the largest of such in Europe and has nice Moorish architecture, the mineral baths are the second largest in Europe after Budapest%26#39;s, Hoehenpark Killesberg has a several kilometer long train ride and a lovely double spiral tower which your children should enjoy climbing with wonderful views, the world%26#39;s first TV tower (1956) can be accessed by an elevator ride, and if they are actively inclined going up and down Stuttgart%26#39;s hundreds of staeffele (stairways originally used to access the vineyards on the steep valley sides but now used to connect streets). The steps used by horses in the old palace should amuse them as royalty rode their horses up to the dinng room and after drinking wine up to their bedrooms.

The largest baroque palace in Germany is at S-bahn accessible Ludwigsburg and has associated fairy tale gardens and an animal park, and S-bahn accessible Esslingen has a nice old town center with town walls going up the hillside which can be climbed. South of Stuttgart are the wonderful fairy tale-like castles at Hohenzollern (Hechingen) and Lichtenstein. Close to Lichtenstein Castle are the state stables at Marbach where the horses%26#39; stalls and paddocks can be visited. I was certainly impressed as I had never seen such large horses (non-draft animals).

There are many other nice sights by Stuttgart, but I have listed the most child-friendly. There are also a few amusements parks fairly close.

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Hi, the kids might be interested in Dinklesbuhl - several hundred years ago the children of the village saved it from the invaders! Kids are heros there!