The Search for Cheesecake - Tuesday, July 8

The hot tub

A couple of view of the outside pools



Actual stalactites formed by the mineral water.

View of the "Ricola" area of the baths

Jane relaxing at the Mineral Bad

The "He Pulled a Knife on Me" bakery.

This is our brekkies of baguettes, cheese, fruit & kaffe.


Up in the morning to breakfast toasted baguette and cheese.

S0... we're watching CNN and Larry King (aka Monty Burns) is interviewing Ringo Starr. Every time Larry asks him a question, it seems like he mentions Ringo's age. Finally Ringo can't take it any more, and he bursts out, "Could you stress my age enough, for christ's sake? What are you? 102?" We about died laughing.

We headed out to the Post Office and then Edika to pick up some Gummis for Karen and Mike, along with some German bath salts for me. Our main goal, however, was to find German cheesecake, which was still on our "to eat" list. With only today and tomorrow left, it was crunch time.

First stop at the Stehl bakery - no cheesecake. Edika - no cheesecake. We decide to drive over to Denzlingen to a bakery Jane really likes. Guess what? It's closed. Closed for good. We try another bakery - no cheesecake. Finally we find the DICK bakery. I swear I am not making this up. They had only one cheesecake and it wasn't the traditional one we were looking for - this one had apricots and cake along with the cheesecake. But desperate times call for desperate measures so we got a piece of that, and a piece of cake with Johannesbeer (red currants this time.)

We loaded up our bathing suits and headed for the Eugen-Keidelbad, the perfect antidote for all the walking and climbing we had been doing. We went right for the Ricola circuit, then headed outside to Love Canal. This time we called it "Lust Canal" because there were a few couples in there whoreally, really should have gotten a room. We were lounging in the center of Love Canal where the thermal baths erupt into full body massages when it started raining - really raining. People fled like like they were going to get wet! It was pretty cool to be outside in the hot water while the cold rain pelted down. After a while there was a boom of thunder and that's when we swam inside.

Jane whacked her toe really badly and cracked her toenail. So for a while we sat in our chairs and read and Jane took a nap. This time I brought my camera and got some pictures. While Jane napped, I went out for a swim, eventually joined by Jane. We finished up with the Ricola Pool and the hot tub and by then we had nearly used up our allotted 4 hours.

We showered and dressed and drove over to Denzlingen to the Kohler Eck, a pub. We got a nice corner booth and we ordered two dark beers, rosti with beef tips and gorganzola cheese, and a salad with homefries, turkey and beef fricadella.

Leaving Denzligen we saw the Krone hotel. There is also a coffee called "Hag." We thought we'd join forces with Nancy and open a hotel/coffee house and call it "Two Krones and a Hag." I'm not saying who is what.

We came back home and started another Office marathon, and after a while we had champagne (sekt) and our cakes. Went out on the balcony before bed and listened for the hedgehog, but it was no go. We think we scared them off.