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Regensberg
Guten morgan!
We woke up in Regensberg to rain! Determined not let it get the best of us, we grabbed umbrellas and set off on foot through the old downtown. We are really starting to learn that the best way to see these towns is by walking. A car is good to get between the towns, but it gets in the way the rest of the time.
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Medieval Regensburg and Bockbier
... 1663 until the demise of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, Regensburg was even selected as a permanent site.
The tour through the Altes Rathaus serves as a portal to this historical epoch. The first wood-paneled room that we entered was used by the Council of Electors, seven of the most important noblemen. Here, they would elect the new emperor. A green ceramic heater from 1725 still inhabits the room. ...
Nuremberg and World War II
... and the museum is housed in a very modernistic section of the building that was designed to look like a glass spear through the building. We were given individual earpieces so could move through the museum at our own speed. It was a sobering display, moving from Hitler's rise in the 1920s, to the huge rallies of the 1930s, the construction of concentration camps for political prisoners, the annihilation of the Jewish ...
Regensburg, Germany
... but were built by prominent families as their homes. None are now occupied by the original family, but they are all still used, some as apartment buildings. A few have developed fairly severe lists because of the weight of the structures. We ended our tour at St. Peter's Cathedral, which has its roots in the 7th century, and which was actually constructed between the 12th and 19th centuries. The cathedral towers are visible from most places in the old town. The cathedral itself ...
Regensburg, Germany
I have included a photo of the boat in a lock with the beautiful changing trees on shore. Going through the lock is like traveling on a very slow elevator, up or down depending on which side of the continental divide you are on. We went through an eighty foot lock last night--felt like we were ascending from the depths of hell since the boat fits very tightly In the lock and the walls are only inches away. Right before dinner last night, we were barely able to observe ...