Romantic strasse in winter?

I will have 5 days in Munich next week,so I want to go through the Romantic Road for 3 or 4 days.

But I have found out that the Eurobus is not working during winter time and unfortunatelly, I do not have driver%26#39;s lisence to drive bymyself.

Though I know that there are rail ways to get to the main cities, I am afraid that I cannot see the small cute towns by train.

Is there any good way to travel around there in winter?

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber, N?rdlingen and F��ssen have e.g. all train stations. Other places are served by local buses.

It%26#39;s just that these don%26#39;t follow exactly the Romantic Road like the Eurolines/Touring bus in Summer.

DB timetable

http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en

From: Munich

To: Fuessen

To: Noerdlingen

To: Rothenburg ob der Tauber

A good deal is the Bavaria Ticket. A day ticket covering all regional trains and nearly all buses in Bavaria. In Munich also U-Bahn (metro) and trams.

Validity

Mo-Fr from 9am till 3am next day

Sa,So from midnight till 3am next day

Bavaria Ticket Single (1 person) EUR 19,00

Bavaria Ticket (2-5 persons) EUR 27,00

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Thank you very much for your quick and helpful reply.

I think I will just stay at Munich and go to Rothenburg and Nordlingen as a day trip by train.

But one thing is that I would like to drop by Dinkelsbuhl from Rothenburg.

Are there local busses on the Romantic Road?

Since my guide book mentions about local bus but I could not find the time schedule on the internet.

And I am afraid if there are busses during the carnival time.

So, I would like to ask your advice again.

Thanking you for your help.

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Masup, public busses are running though. Check with www.vgn.de. The website is in German and English.

By the way, the webistes of the Greater Frankfurt Area public transport (rmv.de) and other real German cities are - of course - in Turkish as well... ;-)

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%26gt; But one thing is that I would like to drop by Dinkelsbuhl from Rothenburg.

Possible. But not as part of a day trip from Munich to Rothenburg. Not enough time.

%26gt; Are there local busses on the Romantic Road?

There are e.g. buses from Rothenburg to Dinkelsb��hl.

Just use the already linked DB timetable

To: Dinkelsbuehl

%26gt; Since my guide book mentions about local bus but I could not find the time schedule on the internet.

The DB timetable covers all public transport in Germany. Trains, trams, buses ...

%26gt; And I am afraid if there are busses during the carnival time.

Carnival time is over in 20 minutes for this year.

But apart from this the services run as normal. Maybe with detours or skipped stops due parades. On the other side: there will be extra trains/buses for big parades and also a more extended night service than usual during these days.

And one more thing: the former free imperial cities at the Romantic Road (e.g. Rothenburg, Augsburg, N?rdlingen, ...) are predominantly protestant. Thus no (or not much) carnival there at all.

The only day in the year with services not a least on a normal Sunday level is Christmas Eve (24. Dec.).

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