A museum day today in Berlin and there are many and have some pretty amazing exhibits. The cream of crop is the Pergamon which has 3 amazing reconstructions, the Pergamon alter dating back to the 2nd century AD. It is 35 metres wide and 33 metres deep with sculptured friezes showing the battles between the giants and the Greek gods. You walk into the room and it is enormous. The very next room had the market gates of Miletus, a roman city in western Turkey follo...

Following our stay in Augsburg we travelled to Nordlington and Rothenburg ob der Tauber, both medieval walled cities, the later that has not had any new buildings within the walls since medieval times. Buildings, walls and gates were amazing but unfortunately tourism has got the better of the Rothenburg and ever shop is filled with the usual tourist trinkets and crap, except the Christmas shop which has every imaginable decoration , trinket, wood carving etc etc ...