Intercityhotel Nurnberg Nuremberg

... We walked down the Weissgepbergasse (with the oldest remaining buildings in the city), we passed the former home of painter Albrecht Durer, we drank some Mokarabia, climbed the castle, found a traditional Bavarian coat for Pam, and then, since Germany is full of Turkish immigrants, I finally had some Turkish street food. After shooting off an email to some extended family in Frankfurt with some initial plans ...

Ahh&#8230; another week complete&#8230; another weekend to begin&#8230;<br><br>This week has been one of the hardest since I got here. It is about mid semester and it seems like tensions are running high with everyone. I guess that the large amount of traveling that I'm doing is taking a toll on my body, and my mind too. There is just so much to be done, and only spending 50% of my time at home (in Regensburg) doesn&#8217;t quite give me enough time for it. It has also hit me that I don ...

... 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. <br><br>

Before we even got to Nuremburg the adventure began. Half way through the drive we got a little hungry. Stopping at a truckstop we picked up some McDonalds (The only time so far) and after eating was on our way. Chris then noticed after driving for a few minutes on the highway how windy it was&#8230;.maybe because I forgot to close the side door of the van. Needless to say we pulled over and closed the door ...

... 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 ...

... to see in Nuremburg (well, me anyway), so on our way back to the train station we stopped for a late lunch at a place called the Bratwursthausle. Rick Steves said they had the best sausages in town, and that sounded good to us. We both got the 8 nurnberg sausages again, me with potato salad and Derek with sauerkraut. And they were amazing. Even better than the ones we had last night in Munich. I think it was my favorite meal of the whole trip so far. <br><br>We thought we ...

... t obvious unless you looked real close at it, and we left quickly after that. There was a fruit and vegetable bazaar on the bridge over the river Pegnitz, which bisects the town. Arriving at market square, we found it full of vendors of all sorts of wares, each in a stall with matching red and white striped awnings. One was a broom and brush shop which carried pretty much anything with bristles, and of course the pitchmen were selling the super chopper ...

I picked Nuremburg as a place to go because it was halfway between Munich and Frankfurt. I really didn't know anything about it other than the Nuremburg trials. It's a nice city with a lot of pretty bridges. I was pretty baffled though by this fountain... it appears to depict two corpses wrestling on the back of an iguana. Interesting.<br><br>I met a guy who worked at the hostel - Ian. We went out with some of the ...

... S WRONG WITH ME???? It's like I'm Luke Skywalker about to go over to the Dark Side of the Force!! What is the fascination? What is the pull of this cult of personality that draws me like a moth to a flame, to the power of this monster, whose plans for world domination drastically changed the lives of more than 100 million people?! The simply outstanding exhibit at the Nuremburg Documentation Center, an architectural masterpiece combining old and new, avant' garde construction ...

... see the king's and queen's floors, but it was still impressive none the less. All the paintings on the walls were actually painted on to the walls and told stories of past events, both facts and fiction. So some more fun facts about crazy king Ludwig. So when his father died he became king at the age of 19. He took over the castle and made some adjustments to the kings bedroom. He had little transparent stars put in the ceiling so that with lit from behind it would feel like ...