Can you guess where we are?
We went back up into Germany to the Black Forest. This area in Germany has lots of hills, trees and beautiful views. The black forest is also famous for making cuckoo clocks. They have been making clocks for over 300 years.
We stayed in Triberg, which is home to the World's Largest Cuckoo clocks. They are huge. The woodcutter at the side of this clock moves his axe up and down, pretending to chop the wood. It was very clever.
The next cuckoo clock we saw had a water wheel next to it. Do you know why they are called cuckoo clocks? When the short hand points to the 12, the cuckoo bird comes out the door at the top of the clock and "cuckoos" the right number of times.
(Can you see the cuckoo at the top of this clock?)
Other large clocks we saw were:
We also went to the House of 1000 Cuckoos (they sell cuckoo clocks). Outside the shop, there were bears making a clock, and a little bear climbing up a ladder (he moved up and down), but they were all carved out of wood. It was awesome.
We also went to Germany's highest waterfall, also in Triberg.
There were squirrels there that you could feed peanuts to. They were too fast to take a photo of, but we did see this big squirrel out the front.
The black forest is also famous for the black forest cake.
When we left Triberg, we saw something else that was the biggest in the world.
The world's biggest toilet. It was 12 metres tall.
Very funny.
Now we are going to Spain. (uh oh, I have to learn a little Spanish, better start learning).
Auf wiedersehen.
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