Tracing the Romans in Germany

Ha, time for a nice story. During the autumn holidays we've been away for a few days with the whole family. For the first time since... ah, I can't even remember! We have traced the Romans in and near the Teutoburger Wald, where they were beaten by the 'Germans' in the year 9 A.D. We saw the big bronze Hermann statue, and the Externsteine, mysterious rocks sticking out in the wooded landscape. When I saw those steep rocks my first thought was: I'm going to skip this one... But then I saw even some old grandpas climbing the stairs, so I went and climbed them all! Not to my regret: they gave a beautiful view on the forested hills and lake. After visiting the Hermann statue, we had great fun in a 'climbing-playground' in the forest nearby. This seems to be a fashion in German forests (also growing in Holland): they install all kinds of ropes and pieces of wood to climb on between the trees. Usually it's quite expensive to participate (and you need official gear and supervision), but we were lucky: the ticket office wasn't open, there were no fences, and part of the climbing materials were hung very near the ground, so smaller children (and untrained grown-ups, ahem ahem) could play at their own 'level'. We surprised ourselves by all taking turns at all those installations, and felt like naughty monkeys. (It must have been a very well-kept playground: the ropes didn't even collapse under Frank's weight!) This unexpected event was the biggest fun-experience of our short holiday.
Now back to the Romans: only recently archaeologists found evidence that the above-mentioned battle actually took place quite a bit further north. So we drove there to visit the site of the excavations, and see a brandnew museum where they had thought of all kinds of playful and modern ways to tell (especially children) all about those events. On the last two days we went to Osnabrück and Münster. The weather was mostly mild and even sunny.
To my surprise and relief, I wasn't exhausted from the trip. It even seemed to give me some energy!
Should do this more often!