Luther and fine wine

After a bit of a "Negative Nancy" ending to yesterday with being frustrated with the car situation (specifically parking), today started out much better. Today was lonely planet day - the areas we went to are not on Rick's listing of places to visit. We headed first to Worms (rhymes with Forms). In Worms, we saw the monument to Luther which commentates his 1521 session with the Diet of Worms where he refused to recant his belief that the church was off base. This led to him being pronounced an outlaw. Without that moment, who knows if the Lutheran church would exist in its current form today!

After that we stopped to take pictures in the flowers and then see the Dom in Worms. The Cathedral was pretty impressive. Beautiful organ, altar and side chapel with great stained glass. I didn't expect it to be that great because the town doesn't look like much driving through it. Lonely planet was right - Rick Steves missed this one.

After that we drove down the so called German wine road, which is winery after winery and cute town after cute town. What we weren't sure of was how many would be open on a Monday. Luckily a local TI was open in Kallstadt, which even had brochures in English. We got 4 more bottles to fill my infinite spaces in my rack at home and a small bottle to drink tonight.

After that it was mostly scenery. We drove over the French border to say we had done it. Tonight we are in Heidelberg - tomorrow is Nuremberg, which I'm really excited about.