Wrapped up my short time in Rothenburg today with more exploring and some shopping. Did the Christmas museum which displays thousands of ornaments and decorations, trees, cards, stories, history and displays old German versions of Christmas trees – Weihnachtspyramide (Christmas pyramid). Got a German dessert called a schneeball (snowball). It is just slices of a … More Munich
That is what Hitler called Bavaria’s medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. (Red castle on the Tauber; a river). It’s beauty has withstood 900 years of history and even mostly survived the second world war…by a little bit. Or maybe he called it that because the town was fervently supportive of the Nazi party. … More The Most German Of German Towns
Going to keep this one short. Planning trains and stays and lining up schedules on the ago is quite exhausting. Especially when a lot of guess work is involved. Started off the day going to the Palace of Justice, where all the captured leaders of the Nazi party were put on trial. Unfortunately the main … More The Weirdest Film Set Up I’ve Ever Seen.
An hour long walk nice and early…at 10am south east of the Reichsparteitagsgelände, have fun with that one. (The Nazi Party Rally Grounds) a huge 11 square km area tasked to top Nazi architect Albert Speer by Hitler to be developed into a huge rally ground and celebratory area for massive parties and demonstrations. With … More Really Old Things
Today I left Leipzig and entered the state of Bavaria, headed to Nuremberg (Nürnberg in German). My hotel being right on the line between average modern city and ancient medieval town is quite interesting. The ‘old town’ as they are often called remind you of the middle ages with castles, stone walls, and the famous … More A Trip Back In Time
A relatively uneventful day, except for 3 separate rain showers, my umbrella from Berlin has been the most useful thing I got. Went wandering throigh more of the city, doing what little shopping I could due to Sunday’s closure of 90% of the stores in Germany. Spent some time in in the horrifying Middle Ages … More Leipzig, Day 2
This is a post with random funny stuff I’ve come across. In Berlin on the city train 3 guys with instruments got on and started playing music loud when the doors closed. They also had a slightly hidden file player so they could “play” their instruments while sounding good. As soon as the music started … More Just Geman Things
Didn’t really do anything big today. Okay one thing was really big, but mostly today was a pleasant walk through the city of Leipzig, aside from the elegamce of Dresden and landmarks of Berlin, this city has a quaint old timey feel. Started with a trip to the apparently non-existant Leipzig sport museum which supposed … More City Walking
Not exactly a lot of things done today except taking the Zug (train) to the other major Saxon town of Leipzig (pronounced lipe-zish in German), a neat university town. I arrived at an awkward time around 1. Checking in at my hostel and dropping my stuff off, my first and only real stop of the … More Leipzig. No Clever Title.
Climbing and climbing. That was today’s lesson in Adventuring 101. I headed off nice and early to check on a long walk, much of which was uphill, out the German Military History Museum. It was closed for maintenance. And it is also closed tomorrow, those 2 days just happen to be the only days I … More A Rocky Road
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