Le Meridien Grand Hotel Nuremberg

They Said:<br><br>Even if for only one damp and chilly night, we finally got to see another city in Bavaria. Nuremberg is mostly a bombed out shell of its former self, redone since the war with more modern style architecture but still retaining the city's original mapping. This means tons of streets that are pedestrian only, and for the most part, this is how we enjoyed the city &#8211; simply by walking its ...

... an hour, but they did have to make 200 total (there is an error rate of about 1 in 10 though, but the errors are just sold at 2nd rate rather than first). <br><br>In order to make the piece, you have to get a blob (yes, blob) of liquefied glass and blow into it to begin the shaping process. Once there is a decent size bubble in the glass, they lower it into a wood mold and continue to blow the bubble bigger, all the while taking the desired shape. Once it is completely hollowed out ...

Today, right after breakfast, we crossed the European Continental Divide. We went into a lock that dropped us down 81 ft. At the bottom it was, as our tour guide said, like being a spider in a bathtub with concrete walls rising up just inches from the sides of the ship.<br>We docked at ...

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 ...

So after our 5 hours on the train yesterday, we spent another 2.5 hours on the train today. We took the high speed ICE train one hour to Nuremburg, and then later went another 1.5 hours to Rothenburg. And I realized that I'm getting tired of travelling on trains all the time. I think I really do prefer going by car. On the train, you do get good views of the countryside. But you don&#8217;t get to see much of the cities you go through. The train always goes along the outskirts of ...

... had two transfers, at Ansbach and Steinach, getting in at 10 till 7. On a solemn note, at breakfast I had my back to the TV, trying to ignore CNN, but I heard there was a school shooting in Ansbach, Germany in Bavaria. I told Erin that was one of our train transfer stops today, but we didn't notice anything unusual the 7 minutes we were there.<br><br>At Rothenburg we had a 15 minute walk from the station to our hotel in the middle of town, loaded down with ...

... is a concrete erection very plain and were presented by the Captain with a certificate that we are now A Grade sailors and he would expect us on deck at 6am to clean the decks.  A lot of fun.  Arriving at Nuremberg we were met by our guide and proceded on our walking tour through the city.  It was very interesting because the history besides being 2000 years old is more recent as it was about the 2nd ...

... cream, things like that. Mitch and I then took the train back to Nuernberg and the tram to the Documentcentre in the southern part of the city. Once there, we picked up a couple of portable info-wands and took a tour of the centre. We strolled through the entire history of the NASDP (Nazi Party) and the Third Reich in a completely thought-provoking twoish hours. Lots of photos and film coverage of the day, as well ...

... cars at all. It started raining right after I managed to find a strange yet tasty desert. There was a whole shop devoted to Ballz. It reminded me of the SNL sketch with Alec Baldwin and the radio talk show ladies, schwety balls. They were a ball of deep fried dough covered in what ever you want. I had the schokoball, which I am sure you all have guess is the chocolate covered one. It was very good, but I couldn't finish it. Thankfully I have two guys I can pon all my extra food ...