Eggersburg

12:55am, the air raid sirens. Why? I mean, test the system? Sure, go right ahead. Test the system in the middle of the night? Uh, not so much.

This morning we went out for our mess hall breakfast & then Guitarman did some laundry while I went home and spent an hour getting Wee Laddie to sleep for his nap. Lordy, that child dislikes his naps.

After all of that we went out for a drive. It’s sort of counter to the German habit of going for a walk on Sunday, but since we may not have that much time here, we’re enjoying exploring the nearby towns. Someone had mentioned a town called Riedenburg to Guitarman so we were headed there, but we got sidetracked in Eggersburg. (Burg, in German, means castle. Berg means mountain. So here in Bavaria, there are many, many towns that end in either –berg or –burg, including our town of Parsberg, which has both but was named for the mountains. I’ve actually been wondering if there is a Bergburg/Burgberg anywhere.) Eggersburg is a very small town but very cute. And up on the berg is a burg, overlooking the town. Actually there’s Obereggersburg and Untereggersburg, both of which are quite small. We didn’t look in the castle (by the time we get nap done and get somewhere it’s often 4pm or so), but we walked around the grounds a little bit. And spent a little time on the local playground both on the way in and the way out of our walk through Untereggersburg.

We will save Riedenburg for another day.