Remembrance Holiday, 6 November

Pforzheim is not the prettiest of towns, although it has some lovely suburbs. It is very industrial, and our first port of call this morning was to an industrial area where we used the services (we knew they were there) and then investigated what they can the 360° Gasometer.

This turned out to be a museum, but entry was €11 and we couldn't see that they had any bumph in English, so we thought not and came away. There was an ice rink, too, but guess what? It closed at noon on Tuesdays and we were now 11:45 (had we known there was one there, we might have got up earlier!). But I did the necessary daily shopping, and used a cash point, so that was all right!

Then we came away and drove down through the Black Forest, stopping somewhere to have lunch - it was a hikers' car park so no signal, but peaceful. Then we drove down here, to Freudenstadt - we came here in September, but I'd forgotten that when I was working out our itinerary! There is a shopping centre on one side and a swimming-pool on the other; we thought of going for a swim, but it's a bit cold now so have decided not to.