We headed to Limburg during a fairly dark time, in general but also because of COVID. The days were getting really short, the numbers were getting really high, and Germany had just started to really clamp down more on social mobility and non-essential activities. We needed to be outside of the house, so we drove to Limburg because we thought it might have stinky cheese, we’d seen its cathedral perched above the town, itself above the River Lahn, and it was only about an hour away.

As you can tell from the lack of pictures and the way we’re dressed, it was a freezing, gloomy day, and the town was absolutely quiet with nothing open but a bakery and a small weekend market, and hardly anyone around. We did what we could, buying up half of the bakery’s gingerbread offerings (quite spicy due to our sweeter American taste buds), and finding a to-go sausage from the meat truck. We also found a very cute alleyway that was the old Fish Market, and we went inside the cathedral, whose claim to fame are its seven spires, the most of any church in Germany.

I will forever remember this town, unfortunately because it kicked off one of the most difficult periods of my life. Maybe as things open up – fingers crossed!! – we can go make some new memories to paper over those, as I think in more normal times it would be a very cute town, with all its half-timbered buildings, narrow alleyways, and what probably would have been a bustling town center.

Oh – and there was no Limburger cheese in Limburg! I guess it’s because the cheese comes from Limburg in Belgium. Maybe we shoulda checked that first!!??

20 Days, 20 German Towns: Bad Nauheim – Rüdesheim – Königstein – Travemünde – Cologne – Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Bad Soden – Mainz – Wiesbaden – Berlin – Schwangau – Frankfurt – Bad Homburg – Hamburg – Rust – Langenargen – Bad Sobernheim – Nuremberg – Limburg