Maritim Hotel 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 ...

... shop for a bit, then went down to the glass museum to look around for a while. About half an hour before we were supposed to meet, Katy and I strolled through the town to look for shops, but they were all closed, then our bus arrived and took us to a nearby town.<br><br>Once we got to the town, we had about an hour and a half to eat, so we strolled down to a &#8220;glass pyramid&#8221; then found a little place to grab a bite to eat. Katy and I decided to split a dish, then we went ...

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 ...

... 8230;This team happens to be in the german league and is the home team to Nuremburg! So we just couldn't pass up the opportunity to watch a home game of our beloved team!<br><br>The local fans are intense. Coming in full fan gear of scarves, jerseys, flags and some even brought tamtams that were miked up to increase the energy of the crowd! Me and Chris got scarves and a pretzel and beer and sat to ...

... has to offer. We bought a spatula (scrambled eggs) and some fruits!<br><br>So we have had brautwurst and currywurst and everywurst possible in the past few days! We decided to splurge and went to a snazzy Chinese restaurant for supper! This is only worth mentioning because I ate the biggest most delicious eggroll I have ever had ever!<br><br>We will be coming back to Nuremberg but for now on to Stuttgart!!!!

... me pretty angry. So by the time I got back to bed I was too awake and couldn&#8217;t go back to sleep.<br><br>I finally got up about 7:30 am and worked on blog stuff for a while. Derek finally got up about 9:30 am and we went downstairs for breakfast. Most hostels include breakfast in their prices, but we had to pay 3.90 Euros here. It was worth it, though. We could eat as much as we wanted and they actually had fruit. Most hostels have bread and jam/butter and maybe some meat ...

... Erins' room and found her on the bed looking exhausted, she took off her shoes and I knew she was done for the day. We talked for 10 minutes, giving her time to decide what she wanted to do, which was NOT MOVING, and then I went out to explore the city. I walked around the corner and down one of the main streets to the market square. It was very quiet and getting quite dark, so I looked for a place to have a beer, but went out the castle garden at one end ...

... the FA cup final. Following day took a train down to the beautiful Neuschwanstein Castle (inspiration for the Disney castle) and the town of Fussen. Absolutely beautiful castle in a magical mountain setting. Involved plenty of walking, but hey we had to excercise before those magical one litre beers were to be consumed! Ended the day with one back in Munich.<br><br>Today visited the English Garden, apparently the 7th biggest garden ...

... lakes, stadiums and marching grounds once stood span many kilometres. Lots of examples of the man's megalomania abound, including the Zeppelin Feld stadium where you can still stand where Hitler once stood to address throngs of adoring folk. The big stone slabs surrounding the stadium still have the large metal holders which once held the huge Nazi flags. To stand up on that podium, where he once stood, is eerie ...

... museum. This museum is called the documentation center and is build into the remains of what was suppose to be the congress hall. It was really well done because it was a sharp piece of modern architecture embedded in an old brick building. We only had an hour and a half in this museum and that was clearly not enough. We hardly got through half of the rooms before we were kicked out. There was so much information about Hitler and what he did to Germany. We could of easily ...