The tour was interesting but, unfortunately, the guide only spoke in German and so fast that Hardy or Sally could not interpret so we could easily understand what he was talking about. But by his gestures, etc., Jeanne and I managed to get some idea of the details. Below is the huge knight's hall circa 16th century.

On the left is the armour of Count Ludwig of Heifenstein in the Emperor's Hall. The tour lasted about an hour or so and then we were off again. A short distance from Neuenstein we spotted an old church and graveyard and stopped to check it out.

      

Outside the church was a carpenter's work area and I couldn't help taking this photograph of a kitty that look almost like Sam, who we had to leave back in South Caroline. But Sam was fine as we had a animal sitter stop in every other day to feed him, empty the litter box, and play with him a bit. Continuing on Hardy pointed out the next castle on a hillside in the distance. This is the Langenburg Castle.

      

Unfortunately, by the time we arrived the castle was close to visitors for the day. But we did manage to look around outside. These photographs are from a German Castle Tour Book.

      

It would have been nice to see the inside but we did walk completely around, well actually one side was not open to walking, and took photographs of the towers.

      

The castle garden has a panoramic view of the valley. Since it was late in the day and everyone was starving, we headed for the next town to find a guest house and dinner. The town was quite small but a nice guest house, as always, was right on the main road and rooms were available.