Tuesday, we departed from the wonderful Chez Hodgdon and set off for Rothenburg, Germany via Rheinfall in northern Switzerland. We of course got a later start than we had planned, and then were further delayed by going totally the wrong direction. (We were following what the GPS told us to do, but the real problem was operator error, i.e. the wrong destination had been plugged into the GPS.) When we finally backtracked and got headed in the right direction, it only took about an hour to get the Schaffhausen, the city nearby Rheinfall. We parked and found a restaurant recommended in our Lonely Planet Switzerland book, but once we got inside and were seated found that they were not serving food (it was around 2:30 or 3 p.m. and many restaurants in Europe close around 2 p.m. and don't begin serving food again until around 6 p.m.
Above is a shot of the restaurant, but fortunately the bartender/waiter was very kind. He was actually born in Michigan, but had moved to Germany when he was 2 years old. He spoke excellent English and apparently took pity on us, because while we were debating what to do he came back and said they could fix us a sandwich. It was that or McDonalds, so we took him up on it. The sandwiches were delicious. Plus he gave McIntyre some dice to play with. I have to say, overall people have been very kind to us.
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