Day 37: Friday in Bad Rodach

Today we slept a bit late and had a late breakfast. 

Then we biked to the Rathaus (city hall) and inquired about the archives. The archivist wasn't working today but the lady we spoke with made a photocopy of the family tree info we'd gathered from the church archive and took our names and email. We will hear from them next week if they find any records relating to Andy's ancestors as listed on the sheet.

Then we walked over to the tourist information place (in the Jagd Schloss) to go to the painting exhibit on the second floor. We looked at all the paintings which are done by 16 regional artists and all were painting themes to do with Bad Rodach or the immediate area. Some were fantastic and all were really good. We decided to think over whether we'll buy one or not.

From there, we went to lunch. We biked to the train station to have the good pizza again, but the restaurant was closed for no apparent reason. The hours say they are open but no one was there. So we biked back to the market square and had lunch at the Stadt Cafe. We drank lots of water to help us deal with the heat.

Then, we went back to the Jagd Schloss and looked through the paintings again. We decided to buy two small ones in the bin in the corner (rather than a big one handing in the exhibit). These two are small studies done as part of the artist's preparation for a large painting that has a Rückert quote. He is a famous German poet with particular ties to Rodach.

The lady in the tourist information place helped us figure out how to package the little paintings up, as well. We also bought two small books about the history of Bad Rodach and the family of Max Röesler, who was the employer of Andy's great grandfather in the ceramic company.

We went straight to the post office and mailed the paintings home so we wouldn't have to worry about them getting messed up in our backpacks.

Then, we biked around the town a bit to see some places we hadn't seen and to take some photos near some of our favorite spots. 

Unfortunately, Andy had a little fall over on a gravel train and skinned his knee. So, then we went to the Drogerie or drug store (where you can't buy drugs) to get a bandaid, and to the Apotheke (apothecary/pharmacy which is not the same as the Drogerie) to get some hydrogen peroxide (because we can't be too careful about infection with him).  We discovered the Apotheke is air conditioned! Wow!

We stopped by the stork nest to take a photo with the telephoto lens to see if we could get a better view of the storks.

Then we biked back to the hotel to perform a bit of first aid and to take showers. Then, we had a nice dinner in the hotel restaurant.