![]() We highly recommend stopping often to get outside and experience a walk in the forest or one of the small villages along the way. This is a great route in the southern part of the Black Forest. (Note to those prone to car sickness: sorry).įrom Interlaken, we took the route in the picture below: passing through Bern, driving along the Swiss border until Highway 500, taking it on to Freiburg. Faster routes are not always better in instances such as these. Again, you can’t REALLY go wrong, but I recommend going off the beaten path. The most challenging thing to find in my research was which route to take with our car. So without further ado for my first official post, here are a few tips on how to spend your time chasing fairytales in the hills of the Black Forest: Where to go in the Black Forest But it can be a little overwhelming to navigate, so the lack of resources made it harder to plan (which we are mildly obsessive about). On one hand, you really can’t go wrong with the Black Forest. Honestly, there is not a lot of great information on the Black Forest online, be it in forums, books, or blogs. I took the lead on researching and planning our short time in the Black Forest (we like to divide and conquer). There are tour buses that route through the forest, but we loved the freedom and autonomy of having our own car. The Black Forest was an obvious choice for us to spend a day driving through between our time in Interlaken and Strasbourg. Needless to say, we were pumped on exploring this mystical and legendary place. It’s not hard to understand the inspiration drawn from this beautifully eerie area. Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, and more, written by the Brothers Grimm, were the inspired tales from folk tales from the Black Forest. If you’re not familiar with the Black Forest, it is the land of fairytales. The Black Forest lies on the German side of the France-Germany southern border. Time Travel Turtle was a guest of Baden-Wurttemberg and DB Bahn but the opinions, over-written descriptions and bad jokes are his own.In today’s post, we are sharing our tips for exploring the Black Forest and our exact roadtrip route. I’ve put together a few photos from my walk and I hope you can appreciate it too. Trekking through this region, I can see why you might never want to leave. It sounds like heaven for a nature-lover. You don’t have to drive to a ski resort.” ![]() “You build your own little treehouses, and of course in winter you can just start skiing from your house. “Growing up here you play in the woods all the time,” she says. And this is the little world that Sabrina grew up in. It’s a little world of its own amongst the dense foliage. This is not a remote area, as such, but it feels so isolated from Freiburg or any other large towns. Making my way through this region up to our agreed meeting point, I pass through little towns nestled between mountains. This is the highest peak in the Black Forest.įeldberg is accessible from Freiburg, first by train and then by a short bus trip. The town shares a name with the Feldberg mountain, which is looming above us. We’ve started walking from the town of Feldberg, about 1200 metres above sea level. I love being out in the nature when you see the change between the seasons.” “The plants are not growing anymore, everyone’s getting kind of in the winter sleep, so it’s all about silence and coming down. “It’s the beautiful moment when you know everything is going to calm down,” Sabrina tells me when I ask her about the snow. I can’t help myself – there’s something about the snow, the way it catches the sun, the contrasts it forms against the tree trucks, and the sharpness of all the images containing it. She’s patient as she waits for a million photographs to be taken along the way. Local Sabrina Roseler is guiding me along the track, towards a lake at the bottom where we’ll stop for lunch. The clouds are dry but it feels like it’s raining under this sky of heavy leaves. ![]() Trekking through the forest, it drips constantly onto my head. By the morning, the trees’ branches are supporting a healthy layer of snow.Īs the sun crosses the sky, it all starts to melt. In the mountains outside Freiburg, the unusually early blanket of frost has turned the Black Forest white. ![]() Who knew that snow could fall so early? It’s been unseasonably cold in the southwest of Germany this time of year, but I did not expect to find myself in the middle of a snowfight.
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