Arotel Nuremberg

... because we didn’t understand a word of it, we ate the local gingerbread delicacies, we shopped at the markets, we warmed up from the rain and had a cup of coffee, and eventually had dinner in a quaint, very authentic restaurant where he had traditional Franconian food and some of the local Tucher beer.

The next morning we had a nice breakfast at the hotel and headed out for our last day of ...

... then lay the finished piece on a conveyor belt that runs each piece, one after another, through an oven that cools the pieces down at a very slow rate (over all taking 12 hours if I remember correctly). Then you have the finished piece.

We also got to see a guy working on stems for already made glasses. The stems ranged in shapes and sizes, the most interesting being the ones that were filled with Swarovski crystals (shiny! Haha). After the demonstration, we wandered around in ...

... and took buses to Nuremberg. We visited the Zeppelin Field where the big Nazi Rallies were held and the Hall of Justice where the Nuremberg Trials took place. Bought a souvenir pin at Market Square and had cokes at a bistro while waiting for the bus to take us back to the ship.

... sadly…I lost a flipflop….poor flip flop! I loved those comfy flippyfloppys and gone forever!

Well once we got to Nuremburg it was all about the hockey game! A little backstory…Chris spent a year playing NHL09 (Playstation) online with his friend Danny. At first they changed their jerseys quite often but they eventually stuck with the Sinupret Icetigers (due to the lime green ...

... of Nuremburg on day 2! Nuremberg is famous for being the city where Hitler condemned the Jews and lots of other ****** stuff so obviously it was bombed to hell in World War 2. Very little of the original buildings remain. The walls to the center of the city are still there in most places and the churches are still being rebuilt in certain places but they restored the city very nicely and it still has ...

... till Erin noticed we had twenty minutes to make the 4:55 train to Rothenburg, which also had a shorter trip time than later ones. So we hurried back across town, only snapping a couple of hurried pictures along the way. But, when I tried to buy a ticket, it didn't show that time available. Erin checked her notebook and found she wrote down the wrong times, we were 10 minutes late, not 10 minutes early like we thought. So we took the next one at 5:17 ...

... War then rebuilt so that the reconstruction was indistinguishable from the original. Margaret left me to explore the Nuremberg dungeons while she searched for postcards. Unfortunately there were no tours scheduled to begin until later in the day so I walked down the street and watched a block of buildings being demolished. What was left by the wrecking ball must have brought back nasty memories for the aged crones riding past on their bikes. A few days earlier we had lunched on ...

... The second the game began it started to down pour. And it got very windy too. Our seats were undercover which was nice but there were several people that weren't undercover. I felt bad for the players because they had to slosh around and couldn't play as good as they normally could have. FC Nurnberg did score once which was very exciting. Then at half time they post-poned the game for twenty minutes in hopes that the rain might stop or at least slow ...

... football after school. Life as it would be anywhere. However the last few days are worth detailing, so here goes!

Thursday evening my friend Justine from ‘K’ Jazz who is studying abroad in London arrives via train to visit. In tow is her friend Erica from Texas. I sort of convinced her to stop in on her way down from Berlin to Erlangen (where more K friends are) and then into Bavaria. They arrive late at night and we take a ...

Had a quick look around Nordlingen in the morning and then drove to Rothenburg which was a very cute little town with walls surrounding it, very typical German town, cobbled stone roads and lots of touristy shops. Checked out the Criminal Museum which was very interesting, showed all the olden torture methods and devices used and the punishments that were handed out. Learnt alot about how the law worked and court system. Would ...