It's been a while since I added any pictures to the blog: winter is not really a time for actual photography, (or at least this winter hasn't been) so I though I would go back and add some photos of German towns. To begin with, a small town with a big name - this is the town of Frankenstein in the Pfalz region of South West Germany. I don't know whether Mary Shelley named the creator of the monster after this place, but it certainly felt like it! The day was overcast, and the town is in the bottom of a fairly steep-sided valley. The whole area is amazingly unspoilt - it's part of a forest-based nature park, but the trees are mostly conifers, and the day we were there it felt as if they were swallowing what light was available. The castle dates back to 1146, but situated where it is, it's not surprising that it is now an a fairly ruinous state, having been occupied by the military in various wars!
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