04-06 April "The Bergs"

6 April "The Bergs"
Today we journyed North from Munich, Germany to the towns of Nurenberg and Bamburg.
Weather: Overcast, approx 17c. Slight rain.

Nuremberg is a walled city, meaning that the main town area isenclosed in an entire brick/stone wall shell. Within the city lies ariver and half a dozen bridges across. Nuremberg has a copious amounton Museums & art galleries that you can visit. We visited one museum,Nuvo Something, just outside the train station & across the road. Itwasn't a museum as such, but more of a historical collecition of1970's to current day appliances. Things like the imac, cokemachines, chairs, record players were on show. Entry was Euro 3.50. Atad boring unless your into art Nuevo. If you were to do a lot ofmuseum tours I think there wasa card you can get from the touristoffice for the day which gets you into all the museums/art galleries.
After exiting the train station, across the road there was a smallmarket of guilds, showcasing wares of wooden toys, metal toys (cars,trains etc), blown glass, pewterware (mugs,trinkets,ornaments) andpottery. This was a facinating assortment of shops which was hard toresist not opening the wallet to. All the items appeared to be handmade locally with no chinese imports in sight! Being just outside ofeaster, there were still many trees with chains of brightly coloured,hand painted eggs hanging from their branches.

We journied into the main city mall Markt around 11.30, grabbed acoffee and waited in anticipation for the Glockenspeil clock toperform as it struck midday. Unfortunatly when the gong struck, littlehappened from the clock. Give this a miss as I'm sure theGlockenspeil in Munic would be a lot better event to witness.From the Markt, we journied to the Northern walled section of town andadmired the housing and various religious temples that were visiblefrom the roofline.Heading back to the train, we continued our Journey to Bamburg,ariving around 13.40 (approx 40min from Nuremburg).

Bamburg was a lot smaller city than Nuremburg, approx 70,000 I think Iread. It is primarily a university town. Exiting the train station,you wall for about 10 mins, then cross a bridge and walk another 10 toreach the main town centre. The buildings in this city have a very English feel to them with a touch of Gothic thrown in. The mall areawas filled with great little bakeries everywhere. All with very cheepfood (pretzels, buns, crosionts). We grabed some bananna andstrawberry filled crepes for lunch/snack which were delicious. (Euro2.20ea).

We journied further North through the town to reach an area with adecent sized church and sandstone/limestone buildings on the otherside. (Possibly a schooling area). This is a good area to explore onfoot if you enjoy looking at architecture and just getting a feel forthe place. We spent the rest of the day here. The ICE train (whichactually leaves 40mins later than an earlier train, yet arrives 1 hourearlier) departed at 18.51. We'll arrive in Munich at 21.15 whereit's off to bed