Augustus Gloop and Gengenbach

Today we visited the town that Augustus Gloop comes from!



Well...not really. But we did visit the town of Gengenbach, Germany which Tim Burton used as Düsseldorf, Germany in the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.



Düsseldorf or Gengenbach? (Still from Charlie above, our view of Gengenbach below.)



Gengenbach is only about 30 minutes south of us in the Black Forest. It is Beautiful! We spent our afternoon wandering the streets of the city center. We had lunch in the base of the tower you see in the photo...the tower is a gate of the old city wall and it now holds a cafe.

On our way home we stopped at a huge castle we spotted from the road. The castle of Ortenberg has been turned into a youth hostel (a cheap and romantic place to stay--with a view of the Black Forest and France--if any of you plan on backpacking the Black Forest sometime). The hostel was actually closed for the weekend so we couldn't get inside but we walked along the hills around it and enjoyed the view.



See lots more photos of Gengenbach and Ortenberg here.