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Ahh it has been so long since I've written on here, it's hard to know where to start! We are still in Germany, it's hard to believe we've been in Germany for 4 weeks now, the time has just flown!! Having a fantastic time!
Last I wrote we were in Wurzburg. The terrible weather there continued, but the rain eased up enough one day to explore the old castle. It was up on a hill over the river from the main town and I got out the map and planned our route. After walking for ages up a massive hill and getting no closer to the castle Dan says "there has to be an easier way there!" Turns out there was! I had just read the map wrong! Oh well, at least we got to see the scenic route.
After Wurzburg we got the train to Nuremberg, which is a gorgeous city that I loved! Again, had a beautiful old town and their own type of sausage which was delicious and lebkuchen, a gingerbread I get in Australia at Christmas time but available all the time there. So delicious!!
Nuremberg also has a sad past. Hitler chose it as the site for his massive Nazi party rally grounds. Nuremberg once had an old empire that was in power for hundreds of years, so hitler felt it appropriate to build his new empire there. We visited the party rally grounds, which today is a beautiful green park and home to a big music festival. The serenity of today made it hard to imagine the evil and propoganda that once took place there. We also visited hitler's congress hall which is a massive building he had built and now home to a very interesting museum documenting his rise and fall.
We also explored the old town of Nuremberg which was gorgeous. It had a great old castle housing a medieval museum, which was very interesting. I seriously don't know how they got around with all that armour on, it looked so heavy!! And guns that were taller than me!
From Nuremberg we took a day trip to Bamberg, which was an absolutely beautiful town! Had a fantastic old town hall built over the top of a gushing river and an old fishing village on the river known as Little Venice. Also had a huge palace with absolutely beautiful gardens - when I have a garden I want to design it like that. Also checked out the little castle there and enjoyed a liquid lunch overlooking the castle courtyard and rolling green fields below. Thank god for cheap German beer - the only lunch in our budget available at these tourist attractions!! (I did pay for it later though, and got sick from lack of food and grog for lunch!)
We also took another day trip to Rothenberg ob de Tauber, yet another gorgeous walled old town. This place was absolutely heaving with tourists, but luckily they come on their bus trips, stay for an hour and are gone again, so by the afternoon it was much easier to get around without having to negotiate our way through massive groups of annoying tour groups!!
Rothenberg is famous for it's Christmas village shop, which was like a wonderland inside a massive Christmas tree. We were surrounded by twinkling lights and absolutely beautiful Christmas decorations. Thank goodness it was 15 euro for one decoration and waaaay out of our price range or I would have gone nuts buying things!!
We spent the rest of the day wandering the town, walking inside the city walls which was interesting and climbing the town hall tower - very high up, great view, but nothing underneath the platform we were standing on, just the ground waaaay below us, so also a little scary! I am defintely loving these quaint little German towns!
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Billy Your map reading skills must be as good as mine love! Sounds magical - you have a good way with words Al... I cant imagine government policy writing had anything to do with it...... Keep writing!!!!!