Bath in Baden Baden

“Hello Bunny, we are coming to Dusseldorf on Tuesday and will be with you for a whole week. Won’t it be wonderful?”

“Oh, mom, I will be working in Paris throughout the week and Ingo will be in Munich. What will you people do in Dusseldorf when we are not there? Who will pick you up? Can you not come on Friday when both I and Ingo will be returning to Dusseldorf? We will have a lovely weekend together”

So, that is how we happened to be in Baden Baden on the western edge of Black Forest of Germany. Baden Baden are two words, always said together because it means Baden in the district of Baden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Baden

We planned to spend 4 days touring Neuschwanstein, Baden Baden, Triberg, and then take a Rhine cruise and reach Dusseldorf on Friday. It would also utilize our one-week Eurail pass fully. The Rhine cruise was included in the Eurail pass.

There is an excellent website of German railways on the net, which is used extensively by travelers all over the world to plan European Rail holidays.

( http://bahn.hafas.de/bin/query.exe/en )

I too used it and planned our journey in the minutest detail, because to reach Baden Baden we had to change railway connections four times in a day, and each connection had only 10-12 minutes in which to make the change.